1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.1. Last change: 2008 Mar 07
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 Win32 crash. (Anton Sharonov, 2008 Feb 27)
35 Mac: patch for ATSUI: http://wiki.macvim.org/wiki/VimPatches/ATSUI
37 Mac: patch for mouse wheel scroll under Leopard. (Eckehard Berns, 2007 Dec 7)
39 Mac: patch to make it build with GTK. (Ben Schmidt, 2008 Jan 5)
41 Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
42 changed or the window is resized.
44 Mac: Patch for the dialog hotkeys. (Dan Sandler, 2007 Sep 11)
45 Doesn't work for me. Asked Dan about this.
47 Confusing docs: "gw" is not supposed to use 'formatexpr', but it does.
48 Depends on whether it's a range of lines or only one line. (Brett Stahlman,
51 Patch for configure on Mac: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
52 Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
54 'cursorline' always shows "+" at end of screen line with:
55 :set listchars+=extends:+ nowrap list
56 (Gary Johnson, 2008 Feb 27)
58 C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
59 with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
60 Try to reproduce at work.
62 Patch for longer default for 'paragraphs'. (James Vega, 2008 Mar 2)
64 Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
65 Await response to question to make the register writable.
67 Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1)
69 Problem with 'langmap' parsing. (James Vega, 2008 Jan 27)
71 Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
74 Patch to make <S-Space> work in GTK with XIM. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2008 Feb
77 Find a way to include the regexp code:
78 http://vim-soc-regexp.googlecode.com/svn/ (sbboat one)
79 Await the two branches to be merged.
80 Await code to be put back into regexp.c to avoid duplication.
81 More testing needed to verify exactly the same matches are found.
83 - ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
84 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
86 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
89 Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
90 Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
92 Patch for 'switchbuf' and tabs. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2008 Jan 27)
94 Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
95 Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
98 C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
99 (Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
101 When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
102 and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
104 Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
105 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
107 New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
109 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
112 Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
113 by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
114 Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
115 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
117 Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
118 Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
120 More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
122 Display problem when 'rightleft' is set, 'encoding' is "utf-8" and an illegal
123 byte is at the start of the line. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Jan 12)
125 Add v:searchforward variable. Patch by Yakov Lerner, 2006 Nov 18.
127 globpath() doesn't work as expected. The example shows using 'path', but the
128 "**8" form and upwards search are not supported.
130 With Visual selection, "r" and then CTRL-C Visual mode is stopped but the
131 highlighting is not removed.
133 Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
134 terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
136 Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
138 Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
139 but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
140 that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
142 When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
144 When the current line is long (doesn't fit) the popup menu can't be seen.
145 Display it below the screen line instead of below the text line?
147 Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
148 popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
149 size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
150 This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
152 With a nasty spell file one can read past the end of the file and use lots of
153 memory. Patch by James Vega, 2007 June 20.
155 Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
156 a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
159 Completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and then?
160 Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include files with
161 "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
163 When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
164 parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
165 neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
166 particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10)
167 However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
168 the user put quotes around the expanded item?
170 Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
171 switch list is noticed:
178 Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
180 Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
181 with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
182 go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
183 moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
185 Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
188 Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
191 Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
192 Sutcliffe says it works well.
193 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
195 Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
197 Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
199 Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
200 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
201 New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
202 patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
204 Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
205 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
207 Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
208 Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
209 Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
211 Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
213 Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
215 Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
217 Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
218 label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18)
220 Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
221 with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
222 Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
224 Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
225 Build another diff.exe somehow?
227 Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
228 pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
230 Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
231 Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
233 Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
234 Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
235 Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
238 Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
241 If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
243 F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
244 modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
245 K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
247 Problem finding swap file for recovery. (Gautam Iyer, 2006 May 16)
249 UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
250 to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
252 The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
253 Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
254 find_special_key() also has this problem.
256 In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
257 the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
259 C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
261 ":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
263 Patch to use xterm mouse codes for screen. (Micah Cowan, 2007 May 8)
265 Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
266 use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
268 Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
271 Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
272 character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
274 ":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
276 The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
279 Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
280 error. Should only happen when there are wildards, not when giving the file
281 name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
283 Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
284 longer than 2 seconds.
286 Changing 'guifont' in the console causes an uneccessary redraw.
288 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
289 Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
291 VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
292 directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
295 VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
297 input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
300 IM turned of in preedit_end_cb. Patch by Takuhiro Nishioka, 2008 Feb 9.
302 getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
303 element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
305 Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
307 When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
308 (patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
309 Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
310 will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
312 ":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
313 Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
315 aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
317 Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
318 the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
320 Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
321 Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
322 Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
323 argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
324 (Erik Falor, 2008 Feb 6, patch is backwards)
326 GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
328 Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
331 Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
333 Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
334 moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
335 that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
337 The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
339 Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
342 Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
345 Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
346 shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
347 fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
348 background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
349 A.Politz may work on this.
351 The spellfile plugin checks for a writable "spell" directory. A user may have
352 a writable runtime directory without a "spell" directory, it could be created
355 These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
356 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
357 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
360 Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
363 In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
364 buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
367 New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
370 For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
372 Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
373 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
376 - Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
377 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
379 - Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
381 Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
382 start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
383 show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
386 When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
387 (using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it looses the
388 connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
389 dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
391 Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
393 When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
394 Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
396 Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
397 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
398 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
399 - getting colors in xterm
400 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
402 Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
403 Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
405 Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
407 ":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
410 A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
413 Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
416 GTK: When maximizing Vim the result is slightly smaller, the filler border is
417 not there, and the "maximize" button is still there. Clicking it again does
418 give a maximized window. (Darren Hiebert)
419 Problem is that gui_mch_set_text_area_pos() is invoked to change the text area
420 size, which causes the toplevel window to resize. When doing this while the
421 size is already right the filler remains there.
422 Detect using the maximize button (GdkWindowState bit
423 GDK_WINDOW_STATE_MAXIMIZED) and set it again?
425 Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
426 number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
428 GTK: when using the -geom argument with an offset from the right edge and the
429 size is smaller than the default, the Vim window is not positioned properly.
431 GTK: when editing a directory with the netrw plugin in a terminal and doing
432 ":gui" Vim hangs in obtaining the selection. Workaround patch 7.1.209 is a
433 hack (timeout after 3 seconds). Why don't we get the selection here?
435 After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
436 the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
438 Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
439 Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
442 There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
444 Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
445 copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
446 error and stop using the connection to the server.
448 Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
449 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
451 In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
452 check the result of has("patch13").
454 Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
455 put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
457 Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
458 to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
460 The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
463 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
464 script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
466 It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
467 the function name before resolving it to a number?
474 Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
475 only set after Visual moded is ended.
476 Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
477 used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
479 Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
480 output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
481 Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
483 Win32, NTFS: When editing an specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
484 "auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
485 name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
486 Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
488 Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
489 (David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
491 Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
492 as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
494 Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
497 Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update Apr 28)
499 ":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
500 tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
503 xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
504 buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
505 Xterm 224 supports it!
507 The matchparen plugin finds matching parens in a much better way than "%".
508 Add an option to make "%" work like the plugin.
509 OR: suggest using the matchit plugin? Compare speed.
511 When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
512 text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
513 latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
515 Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
517 Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
518 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
519 somehow? Or use a new function.
521 In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
522 VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
525 TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
526 Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
528 Patch for configure.in to support cross-compiling: Marc Haisenko, 2007 Sep 24.
529 Again 2007 Dec 12, 2008 Jan 9. Some more from Philip Prindeville, 2007 Dec 18.
530 Patch for /usr/local: Michael Haubenwallner, 2008 Jan 11
532 Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. Patch by Matt Wozniski.
536 - Change all use of mch_memmove(p, p + x, STRLEN(p + x) + 1) to a macro:
538 - Rename doc/ada.txt to doc/ft_ada.txt?
539 - Search offset doesn't work for multibyte character. Patch from Yukihiro
540 Nakadaira, 2006 Jul 18.
541 Changes the offset from counting bytes to counting characters.
542 - Rename the tutor files from tutor.gr.* to tutor.el.*. Greece vs Greek.
543 Make all tutor files available in utf-8.
544 - Remove ! for ":cgetfile" and ":lgetfile". (patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan,
546 - Add patch for 'relativenumber' option? Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Feb 21
547 - Add blowfish encryption. Openssl has an implementation. Also by Paul
548 Kocher (LGPL), close to original. Mohsin also has some ideas.
549 Take four bytes and turn them into unsigned to avoid byte-order problems.
550 Need to buffer up to 7 bytes to align on 8 byte boundaries.
551 - Rename doc/sql.vim doc/ft_sql.vim.
552 - Change "command-line" to "[Command Line]" for the command line buffer
554 - Move including fcntl.h to vim.h, before O_NOFOLLOW, and remove it from all
556 - ":{range}source": source the lines from the file.
557 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
558 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
559 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
563 - Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
564 - Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
566 - Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
568 - Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
570 - 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
571 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
572 - Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
573 - Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
574 - ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
575 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
577 - gettabvar() and settabvar() functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2007 Sep 13)
578 - recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
581 Awaiting updated patches:
582 9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
583 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
584 New patch 2004 Jun 16
585 - selecting proportional font breaks display
586 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
587 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
588 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
590 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
591 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
593 9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
594 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
595 8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
596 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
597 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
598 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
600 How does this work? Missing comments.
601 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
602 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
603 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
604 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
605 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
606 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
607 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
608 for multi-byte characters.
609 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
610 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
611 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
613 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
614 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
615 with an ESC sequence.
616 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
618 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
619 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
620 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
621 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
622 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
623 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
625 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
627 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
628 Search in 'runtimepath'?
629 More docs needed about how to use this.
630 How to get the messages into the .po files?
631 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
632 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
633 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
635 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
636 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
637 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
638 useful for interactive things or completion.
639 col('^') column of first non-white character.
640 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
641 + 1", but that's ugly.
642 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
643 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
644 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
645 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
646 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
647 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
648 8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
649 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
650 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
651 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
652 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
653 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
654 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
655 Kotchan has a patch for it)
656 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
657 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
658 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
659 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
660 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
661 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
662 incomplete patch Mar 18)
663 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
664 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
665 - Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
669 - Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
670 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
671 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
672 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
673 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
674 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
675 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
676 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
677 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
679 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
680 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
681 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
682 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
683 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
684 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
685 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
686 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
687 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
688 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
689 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
690 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
691 names in one buffer???
692 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
693 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
694 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
695 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
696 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
697 command was one command.
698 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
699 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
700 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
701 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
702 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
703 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
704 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
705 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
706 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
707 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
708 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
709 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
710 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
711 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
712 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
713 to the match with the tag? Option?
714 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
715 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
717 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
718 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
719 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
720 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
721 match. Nvi can do it too.
722 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
723 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
727 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
728 the way the shell is started?
729 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
730 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
733 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
734 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
735 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
736 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
737 the minimal window width?
738 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
739 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
740 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
741 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
744 9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
745 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
746 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
748 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
749 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
750 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
751 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
752 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
753 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
754 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
755 - Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
756 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
760 Win32 GUI known bugs:
761 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
763 8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
765 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
766 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
767 8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
768 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
769 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
770 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
771 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
772 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
773 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
774 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
775 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
776 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
777 "lucida_console:h8").
778 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
779 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
780 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
781 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
783 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
784 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
785 to use an opaque background in most places?
786 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
787 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
788 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
789 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
790 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
791 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
792 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
794 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
795 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
796 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
798 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
799 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
800 file: Window moves with the cursor!
801 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
802 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
803 appear. (Sami Salonen)
804 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
805 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
806 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
807 doesn't work properly.
808 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
809 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
810 appears in the right position. (Webb)
811 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
812 button doesn't give popup menu.
813 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
815 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
816 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
817 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
818 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
819 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
820 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
821 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
822 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
823 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
825 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
826 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
827 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
828 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
829 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
831 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
832 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
833 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
834 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
835 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
836 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
837 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
838 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
839 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
840 know which keyboard is being used?
841 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
842 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
844 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
845 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
846 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
851 6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
852 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
853 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
854 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
855 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
856 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
857 required and it's missing?
858 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
860 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
862 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
863 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
865 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
866 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
867 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
868 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
869 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
870 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
871 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
872 the tooltips work though...
873 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
874 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
875 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
876 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
877 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
881 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
882 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
884 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
885 read long file names. (Schroeder)
886 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
887 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
888 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
889 problem during a refresh.
890 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
891 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
892 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
893 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
895 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
896 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
900 - gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
901 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
902 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
903 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
904 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
909 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
910 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
911 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
912 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
913 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
914 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
915 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
916 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
917 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
918 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
919 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
920 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
921 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
922 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
923 of where it is processing the output.
924 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
925 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
927 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
928 8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
929 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
931 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
932 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
934 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
935 use that code? Or use console dialog.
936 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
937 error message disappears too quick.
938 7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
940 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
941 when all buffers/directory is used:
942 - filter for file name
943 when directory is used:
944 - subdirectory on/off
945 - top directory browser
946 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
948 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
949 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
950 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
951 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
952 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
953 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
954 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
955 up. Set erase character somehow?
956 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
957 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
958 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
959 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
960 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
961 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
963 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
964 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
965 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
966 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
967 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
968 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
969 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
970 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
971 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
972 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
973 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
974 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
975 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
976 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
980 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
981 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
982 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
983 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
984 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
985 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
986 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
988 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
989 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
990 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
991 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
992 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
993 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
994 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
995 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
996 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
997 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
998 Make this work like in Win32 console.
999 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1000 key code. Use a translation table?
1001 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1002 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
1004 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1005 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
1006 8 setlocale() is bogus.
1007 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1008 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1010 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
1011 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
1012 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
1013 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1014 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1015 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
1016 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1017 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
1018 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1019 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1020 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1022 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1024 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
1025 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1029 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
1030 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1031 gen_expand_wildcards().
1032 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1034 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
1035 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1036 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
1037 8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1038 a good fallback, thus use:
1041 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1043 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1047 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1048 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
1049 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1050 Should work like in the GUI version.
1051 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1052 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
1053 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1054 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
1055 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1056 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1057 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
1058 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1059 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1060 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1064 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
1065 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1066 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
1067 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1068 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1072 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1073 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1074 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1075 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1076 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1077 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1078 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1079 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1080 and the file is not saved.
1081 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1083 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1084 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
1085 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1086 besides the console.
1087 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
1088 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1090 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1091 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
1092 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1093 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
1094 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1095 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1100 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1102 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1103 backslashes in result.
1104 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1105 all options, using white space separation.
1109 - GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1110 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1111 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1112 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
1113 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1114 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1116 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
1117 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1118 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
1119 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
1120 8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1122 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1123 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
1124 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
1125 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
1126 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
1127 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
1128 8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
1129 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
1130 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1131 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
1132 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1133 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
1134 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1135 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
1136 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
1137 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
1138 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1142 - Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1143 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
1144 - When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1145 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
1146 9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1147 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
1148 9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
1149 edit the file as a help file.
1150 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1151 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1152 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
1153 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
1154 9 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1155 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
1156 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
1157 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
1158 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1159 error number, it's not a regular error message.
1160 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1161 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1162 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1163 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1165 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1167 - Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1168 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
1169 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1170 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1171 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1172 using the horizontal scrollbar.
1173 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1174 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1175 invocations belong together.
1176 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1177 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
1178 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1179 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1180 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1181 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1182 Briscoe says it's not as good.
1183 8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1184 8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1185 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1186 an allocated structure?
1187 6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
1188 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1189 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
1190 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1191 use "~/" when possible.
1192 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1193 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1194 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1195 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
1196 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1198 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1199 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1200 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
1201 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1202 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1203 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
1204 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1205 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
1206 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1208 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1209 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1210 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1211 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1212 script can be called.
1213 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1214 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1216 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1218 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1219 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1220 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1221 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1222 won't work for GTK anyway.
1223 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1224 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
1225 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
1226 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1228 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
1229 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1230 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1231 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
1232 8 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
1233 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
1234 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1235 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
1236 8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1237 is a multi-byte character.
1238 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1239 always written, even when the original file already exists.
1240 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1241 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
1242 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1243 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1245 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
1246 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1247 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1248 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
1249 8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1250 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
1251 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1252 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
1253 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1254 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
1255 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1256 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1257 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
1259 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1260 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
1261 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1262 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1263 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1264 direction, not horizontally?
1265 8 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
1266 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
1268 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1269 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1270 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1271 dithering to make grey text?
1272 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1273 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
1274 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
1275 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1276 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1277 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1278 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1279 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1280 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
1281 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1282 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
1283 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1284 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1285 that Windows NT is being used?
1286 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1287 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
1288 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1289 in lines that don't extend into the block?
1290 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1291 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1292 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
1293 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1295 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1296 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1298 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
1299 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
1300 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1301 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1302 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1303 'magic' in history. (Margo)
1304 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1305 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
1306 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1308 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
1309 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1310 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1311 cause another redraw, etc.
1312 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1313 must escape special characters in the pattern.
1314 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1315 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1317 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1318 restore file to readonly afterwards.
1319 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
1320 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1321 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1322 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1323 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1325 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1326 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1328 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1329 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1330 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
1331 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1332 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1333 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
1334 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1335 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
1336 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1337 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1338 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
1339 8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
1340 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1342 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1343 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
1344 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1346 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1347 script in do_cmdline().
1348 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1349 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1350 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1352 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1353 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
1354 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1355 check for file marks. This can be slow.
1356 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1357 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1359 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
1360 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1361 to skip catch_signals()?
1362 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1363 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1364 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1366 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1367 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
1368 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1369 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
1370 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1371 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1372 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1373 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1374 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
1375 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1376 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1377 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1379 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1380 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1381 instead of on button down.
1382 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
1383 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1384 reaching the end of the available buffer.
1385 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1387 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1389 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1390 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
1391 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1392 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
1393 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1394 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1395 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1396 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1398 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1399 Remember flags for backreferences.
1400 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1401 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
1402 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1403 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
1404 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1405 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
1406 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1407 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
1408 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1409 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1410 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
1411 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1412 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
1413 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1414 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1415 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
1416 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1417 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
1420 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
1421 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1422 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1423 files. (McCollister)
1426 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
1427 - GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
1428 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
1429 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
1430 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1431 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
1432 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
1433 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1434 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1435 worked around with a delay.
1436 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1437 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1438 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1439 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1440 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1441 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1442 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1443 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1444 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1445 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1446 - Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
1447 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1448 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1449 character gets the highlighting.
1450 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1451 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1452 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1454 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1455 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1456 errors. How do we get the rest?
1457 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1458 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1459 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1460 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1461 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1463 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1464 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1465 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1466 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1467 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1468 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1469 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1470 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1472 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1473 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1474 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1475 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1476 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1477 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1478 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1479 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1480 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1481 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1482 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1483 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1484 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1485 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1486 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1487 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1488 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1489 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1490 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1491 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1492 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1493 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1494 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1495 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1496 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1497 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1498 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1499 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1500 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1501 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1502 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1503 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1504 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1505 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1506 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1507 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1508 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1509 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
1510 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1511 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
1512 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1513 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1514 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1515 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1516 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1517 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1518 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1520 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1521 *extensions-improvements*
1523 Didn't make it into Vim 7.0:
1524 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
1525 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
1526 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
1527 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
1528 http://clewn.sf.net.
1529 And the idevim plugin/script.
1530 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
1531 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
1532 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
1534 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
1535 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1536 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
1538 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
1539 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
1540 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
1541 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
1542 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
1543 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
1544 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
1545 - STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
1546 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
1547 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
1548 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
1549 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
1550 http://vimshell.wana.at
1551 - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
1552 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1553 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
1554 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
1555 taglist() can be used.
1556 - X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
1557 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
1561 8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
1563 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1564 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
1565 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1567 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
1568 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
1569 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1570 - change to cursor position and curswant
1571 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1572 - how it works for folded lines
1573 - how it works with multi-byte characters
1574 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1576 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1577 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1579 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
1580 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1581 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
1582 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1583 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1584 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
1585 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1589 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1590 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1591 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1592 to the other matches.
1593 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1594 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1595 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1596 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1597 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1599 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1600 height for the help window (and other windows).
1601 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1602 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1603 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1607 8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1608 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1609 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1610 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1612 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
1613 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1614 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1615 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
1616 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1617 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1618 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1620 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1621 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1625 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1627 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
1628 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1629 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1631 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
1632 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
1633 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1634 7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
1635 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
1636 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
1637 8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
1638 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
1639 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
1640 global_event_filter() for GTK.
1644 9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
1645 7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
1647 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
1649 8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
1650 8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
1651 8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
1652 8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
1653 7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
1654 7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
1655 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
1656 7 Add local variables for each tab page?
1657 8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
1659 7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
1660 7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
1661 window-local directories?
1665 - Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
1666 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
1667 - Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
1668 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
1669 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
1670 - Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
1672 - The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
1673 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
1674 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
1675 - Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
1676 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
1677 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
1678 - Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
1679 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
1680 - There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffic Voikko is now
1681 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
1683 8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
1684 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
1685 8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
1686 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
1687 8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
1688 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
1689 items and theck if the result is a valid word.
1690 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
1691 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
1692 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
1693 How is it supposed to work?
1694 8 implement using CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN: match words with sl_comppat[].
1695 - Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
1696 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
1697 - suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
1698 - For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
1699 the word are not used.
1700 - Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
1701 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
1702 - Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
1703 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
1704 - NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
1705 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
1706 - Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
1707 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
1708 - New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
1709 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
1710 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
1711 in the affix file separately.
1712 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
1713 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
1714 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
1715 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
1716 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
1717 8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to
1718 obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen)
1719 - CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
1720 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
1721 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
1722 specific prefixes with suffixes.
1724 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
1725 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
1726 affix which is required.
1727 - When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
1729 - Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
1730 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
1731 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
1732 - MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
1733 word/flags and affix.
1734 - Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
1735 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
1736 - Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
1737 8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
1738 syntax items (to add @Spell).
1739 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
1740 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
1741 - References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
1742 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
1743 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
1744 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
1745 8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
1746 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
1747 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
1748 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
1749 use of words with a dash.
1750 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
1751 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
1752 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
1753 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
1754 in English, strings in German (po file).
1758 9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
1759 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
1760 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1761 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1762 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
1763 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
1764 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
1765 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1766 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1771 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
1772 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
1773 8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
1774 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
1775 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
1776 9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
1777 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
1778 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1780 7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1781 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1782 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1784 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1785 commands skip over a closed fold.
1786 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
1787 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
1788 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
1789 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1790 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1791 missing line goes unnoticed.
1792 How to implement this?
1793 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1794 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1796 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1797 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1798 - When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
1800 args version.c main.c
1802 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
1803 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1804 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
1805 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
1806 - "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
1808 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1810 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
1812 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
1813 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
1817 Multi-byte characters:
1818 - When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
1819 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
1820 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
1821 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
1822 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1823 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1824 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1826 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1827 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1828 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1829 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1830 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1832 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
1833 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
1834 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
1835 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1836 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
1837 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
1838 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
1839 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1840 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
1841 8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
1842 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
1843 different fileencoding for filter output?
1844 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1845 so that the user can fix the problem.
1846 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1848 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
1849 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
1850 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
1851 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
1852 7 Searching and composing characters:
1853 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
1854 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
1855 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
1856 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
1857 characters can be manipulated.
1858 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
1859 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
1860 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
1861 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
1862 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1864 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
1865 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1866 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
1867 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1868 'display' option to specify this.
1869 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1870 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1871 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1872 fontselector somehow.
1873 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1874 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1875 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1876 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1877 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1878 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1879 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1880 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1882 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
1883 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
1884 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1885 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
1886 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1887 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1888 - Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1889 Patch from Konstantin Korikov, 2006 Oct 15.
1890 - Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
1891 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
1892 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
1893 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
1894 - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1895 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1896 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1897 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1898 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1899 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1900 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1901 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1902 But it's very complicated...
1906 7 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
1907 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1908 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1909 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
1910 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
1912 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1913 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1914 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
1915 - PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
1916 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
1917 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1918 units as for the margins.
1919 - Support right-to-left text?
1920 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1924 Syntax highlighting:
1925 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1926 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
1927 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1928 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
1929 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1930 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
1931 7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
1932 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
1933 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1934 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1936 7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
1937 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
1938 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
1939 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
1940 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1941 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
1942 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1943 Search highlighting.
1944 7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
1945 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
1946 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1947 change this for each release.
1948 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1949 pattern, but not in the body.
1950 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1951 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1952 instead of the containing item.
1953 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
1954 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1955 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1956 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1957 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
1958 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1959 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
1960 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1961 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1962 Option for the matchparen plugin?
1963 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1964 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1965 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1967 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1968 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
1969 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1970 re-insert the [] if possible.
1971 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1973 8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
1974 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
1975 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
1976 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
1977 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
1978 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1979 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
1980 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
1981 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1982 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1983 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
1984 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1985 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1987 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1988 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1989 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
1990 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1992 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
1993 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
1994 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1995 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
1996 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
1997 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
1998 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2001 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2003 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
2004 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2005 current line while in Insert mode.
2006 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2007 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
2008 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2010 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2011 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2012 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
2013 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2014 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2015 highlighting starts.
2016 8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2017 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2019 7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2020 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2021 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2022 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2024 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2025 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2027 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
2028 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2029 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2030 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
2031 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
2032 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2034 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
2035 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
2036 8 Add more command line completion for :sign.
2037 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2038 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2040 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2041 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
2042 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2043 select one of the sets.
2044 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2045 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2047 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2048 highlighting (for "." command).
2049 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2050 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
2051 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
2052 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2053 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
2054 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2055 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2056 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2057 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2058 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
2059 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2060 (for comment blocks).
2061 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2062 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2063 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2064 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2065 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2066 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2067 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2068 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2070 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2071 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
2072 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2073 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
2074 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2075 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2076 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
2077 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2078 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2079 messages. And external commands?
2080 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2081 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
2082 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2083 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2086 Built-in script language:
2087 8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2088 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
2089 7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2090 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2091 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
2092 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2093 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
2094 - Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2096 - range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
2097 7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2098 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
2099 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
2100 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2101 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2102 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2103 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2105 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2106 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2107 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
2108 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2109 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2110 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2111 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2113 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2114 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2115 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2116 file belongs to a sourced script?
2117 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2118 signs and/or 'number'.
2119 6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2122 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2123 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2124 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2125 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2126 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2127 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2128 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
2129 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2130 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2132 Only add this when also implemented for
2133 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2135 get_user_name() gets login name.
2136 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2137 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2138 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2139 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2140 File.Open..." argument.
2141 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2142 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2143 with properties instead.
2144 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2145 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2146 Return a list instead.
2147 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
2148 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
2149 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
2150 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
2151 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
2152 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
2153 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2155 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
2156 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2157 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
2158 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2159 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2160 to allow the library to execute a command or
2161 evaluate an expression.
2162 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2163 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
2164 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2165 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
2166 8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2167 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
2168 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
2169 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2170 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
2171 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
2172 8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2174 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2175 option or environment variable.
2176 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
2177 8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
2178 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2179 available as a List.
2180 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2181 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
2182 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
2183 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2184 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2185 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2187 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2188 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2190 result = scratch(string, command)
2191 result = apply(string, command)
2192 result = execute(string, command)
2193 "command" would use <> notation.
2194 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
2195 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
2196 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2197 option for the search path. (Sekera)
2201 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2202 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2203 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2204 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2205 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2206 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2207 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
2211 7 For strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list itself as a
2212 character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
2213 8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2214 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2215 repeating it in various system files.
2216 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
2217 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
2218 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
2219 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2220 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
2221 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2222 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2223 when starting up in a color terminal.
2224 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2226 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
2228 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2229 function be improved?
2230 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2231 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2232 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2234 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2235 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
2236 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2237 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
2238 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2239 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
2240 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2241 lot of abbreviations).
2242 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
2243 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2244 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2245 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2246 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2247 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2248 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2249 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
2250 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2251 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2252 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2253 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
2254 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2255 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2256 using strcmp() too often?
2257 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2258 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2259 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2260 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2261 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2262 the two blocks to the memfile block.
2263 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2264 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2265 with an argument that can be messed with.
2266 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2267 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
2268 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2269 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
2270 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2271 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2272 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2273 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2274 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2278 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2279 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2280 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2281 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2282 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2283 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
2284 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
2285 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2286 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2288 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2289 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2290 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2291 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2292 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2293 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2294 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2295 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2296 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2297 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2298 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2299 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2300 cursor is right of the screen.
2301 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2306 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2307 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2308 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
2309 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
2310 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2312 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2314 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2316 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2320 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2321 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
2322 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2323 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
2324 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2326 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2327 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2328 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
2329 8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2331 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2332 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2333 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2334 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2336 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2337 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
2338 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2339 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2340 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2341 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2342 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2343 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
2344 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
2345 Sleep before second message?
2346 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2347 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2348 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2349 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2350 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2351 error messages, printing text, etc.
2352 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2353 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2354 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2358 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2359 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2360 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2362 - insert/delete character stuff.
2363 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2364 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2365 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2366 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2367 waiting for a character.
2368 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2369 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2370 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
2371 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
2375 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
2376 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2377 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2378 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2380 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2381 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2382 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2383 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2384 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2386 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2388 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2389 be bound by regexp searches
2390 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
2391 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2392 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2393 of lines but not with a single line).
2397 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
2398 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2399 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2400 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2401 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2402 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2403 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2404 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2408 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
2409 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
2410 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
2411 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2415 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2416 :libload internal-name libname
2417 :libunload internal-name
2419 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2420 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2421 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
2422 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2426 9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
2427 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
2428 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
2429 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
2430 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
2431 8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2432 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2434 7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
2435 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
2437 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
2438 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
2439 to type the tag number directly.
2440 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
2441 window for each tag.
2442 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
2443 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
2444 bottom" search message.
2445 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
2446 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
2447 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
2448 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
2449 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
2450 - Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
2451 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
2452 what you were working on.
2453 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
2454 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
2455 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
2456 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
2457 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
2458 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
2460 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
2462 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
2463 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
2464 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
2465 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
2466 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
2467 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
2468 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
2469 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
2470 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
2474 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
2475 the message and input?
2476 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
2477 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
2479 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
2481 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
2482 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
2483 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
2484 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
2485 common part of the path.
2486 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
2487 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
2488 gettext and menus work.
2489 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
2490 return in every console.
2491 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
2492 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
2493 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
2494 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
2495 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
2496 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
2497 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
2498 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
2499 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
2500 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
2501 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
2502 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
2503 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
2505 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
2506 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
2507 the file added into an already running Vim.
2508 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
2509 functions to find the window title.
2513 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
2514 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
2515 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
2516 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
2517 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
2518 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
2519 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
2520 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
2521 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
2522 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
2523 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
2524 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
2525 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
2526 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
2527 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
2528 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2529 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
2530 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2531 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2532 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2533 running them in separate processes.
2534 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
2535 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2536 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
2537 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
2538 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
2539 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
2540 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
2541 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
2543 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
2544 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
2545 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2546 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2547 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
2548 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2549 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2550 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
2551 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2552 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
2553 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2554 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2555 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2556 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
2557 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2558 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
2559 7 Should support multi-column menus.
2560 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2561 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2562 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
2563 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
2564 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2565 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
2566 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
2567 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2568 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2569 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
2570 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
2571 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2572 name can be chosen free.
2573 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2574 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
2575 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2576 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2577 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2578 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2579 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2580 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2582 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2583 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
2584 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
2585 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
2586 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2587 where it was started from?
2588 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2592 - Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
2593 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2594 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2595 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2596 changing the buffer name.
2597 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2598 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
2599 7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
2600 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2601 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
2602 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2603 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2605 8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
2606 after typing something.
2607 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
2608 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
2609 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
2610 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2611 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2612 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
2613 7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
2615 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2616 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
2617 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
2618 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2619 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
2620 7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
2621 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2622 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2623 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2624 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
2625 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2626 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2627 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
2628 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2629 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2631 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2632 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2633 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
2634 - Add events to autocommands:
2635 Error - When an error happens
2636 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2637 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2638 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
2640 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
2641 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
2642 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2643 when exiting isn't a good idea.
2644 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
2645 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
2646 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
2647 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2648 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2649 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2651 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2652 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2653 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2654 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2655 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2656 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2657 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2658 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2660 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2661 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2663 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2664 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2665 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2666 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2667 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2668 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2669 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
2671 WinResized - After a window has been resized
2672 WinClose - Just before closing a window
2673 - Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
2674 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2675 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2676 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2677 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2678 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2679 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2680 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2684 - Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
2685 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
2686 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
2687 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
2688 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
2689 - Ideas from others:
2690 http://www.wholetomato.com/
2691 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
2692 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
2693 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
2694 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
2695 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
2696 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
2697 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
2699 Uses ctags to find the info:
2700 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
2701 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
2702 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
2703 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
2704 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
2705 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
2706 Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
2707 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
2708 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
2711 Insert mode completion/expansion:
2712 - GUI implementation of the popup menu.
2713 7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
2714 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
2715 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2716 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
2717 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2718 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2720 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2722 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
2723 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2724 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2725 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2726 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2727 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
2728 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
2729 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
2730 7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
2731 text does: www.textware.com
2732 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2733 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2734 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2735 Should work for C++ and Java.
2736 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
2737 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
2738 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2740 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
2741 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2742 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
2743 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2744 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2745 - Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
2746 header files. (Andri Moell)
2747 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2748 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2749 wildcards in the file name)?
2750 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2751 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2752 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2753 be in another file).
2754 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2755 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2756 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2757 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2758 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2759 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2760 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
2761 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2764 Command line editing:
2765 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2767 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2768 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2769 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2770 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2771 lines wraps to start of line).
2772 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2773 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2774 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2775 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2776 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2777 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2778 cmdwin does now already.
2779 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2780 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2781 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2782 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2783 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2784 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2785 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2786 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2788 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2789 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2790 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2791 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2792 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2793 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2794 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2795 character in first column?
2796 - Implementation ideas:
2797 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2798 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2799 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2800 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2801 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2805 Command line completion:
2806 8 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
2807 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
2808 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2809 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
2810 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2811 them with the optional part inside [].
2812 8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
2813 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
2814 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2815 edited. (Sven Guckes)
2816 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2817 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2818 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
2819 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
2820 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2821 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
2822 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2823 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2824 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2826 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2827 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
2828 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2829 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2830 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2831 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2832 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2833 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2834 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
2837 Command line history:
2838 9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
2839 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
2840 other Vim's are not overwritten.
2841 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2842 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2843 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2844 completely resulted from one mapping.
2845 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2846 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2850 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2851 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2852 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
2853 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2854 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2855 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2856 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2857 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
2858 8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
2859 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
2860 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
2861 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2862 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
2863 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2864 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2865 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2866 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2867 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2868 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2869 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2870 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2871 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2873 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2874 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2876 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2877 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2878 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2881 'cindent', 'smartindent':
2882 9 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
2886 8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
2887 8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
2890 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2891 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
2892 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
2893 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2900 6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
2905 7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2907 int x) // indent like "(4"
2910 && b) // indent like "(0"
2911 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2918 } <-- this is indented incorrect
2919 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
2920 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
2922 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
2923 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
2924 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2925 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2927 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2928 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2929 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
2930 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2931 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2932 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2933 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2934 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2935 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2936 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2937 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
2938 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2939 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2940 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2941 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2942 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2943 lines start with "\item".
2944 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2945 /* here is a comment that
2946 is just autoindented, and
2948 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
2949 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2950 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2952 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
2953 when the indent remains the same or increases.
2957 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2959 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2960 "[i" commands and friends.
2961 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2963 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2964 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2968 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2969 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2970 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2971 when it's "#" or "//".
2972 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
2973 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
2974 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2975 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
2976 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
2977 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2978 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2980 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2981 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2985 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
2986 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2988 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2992 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
2993 8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
2994 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
2995 8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
2996 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
2997 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
2999 8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
3000 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3001 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
3002 8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3003 changing the starting position in oap->start.
3004 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3005 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3006 the end of the line or before a ".".
3007 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3008 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
3009 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3010 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
3011 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
3012 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3013 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3014 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3019 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3020 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
3021 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3022 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
3023 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3024 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3025 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3026 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3028 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3029 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3033 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3034 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3036 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3037 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3039 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
3040 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
3042 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3043 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
3044 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3045 of each selected line.
3046 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
3047 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3048 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3049 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
3050 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3052 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3053 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
3054 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3055 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
3056 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3057 Young is working on this)
3058 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
3059 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
3060 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
3061 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3062 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
3063 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3064 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3066 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3067 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3068 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3069 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3070 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3071 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3072 without changing the column.
3073 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
3074 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3076 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
3077 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3078 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
3079 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
3080 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
3081 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
3082 or other special character.
3083 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3086 More advanced repeating commands:
3087 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
3088 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
3089 the command line so that it can be repeated?
3090 - Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
3091 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
3092 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3093 "y." will repeat last yank.
3094 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3095 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3096 and/or pick an older command.
3097 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3100 Mappings and Abbreviations:
3101 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3102 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3103 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
3104 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
3105 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3106 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
3107 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3108 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
3109 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
3110 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
3111 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3112 entering search strings.
3113 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3114 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3116 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
3117 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3119 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3120 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3121 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
3122 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
3123 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
3124 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
3126 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3127 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
3128 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3129 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3130 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
3131 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3132 abbreviations are to be used.
3133 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3134 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3135 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
3136 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3137 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3138 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3139 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3141 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
3142 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3143 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3144 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3145 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
3146 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3147 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3148 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3149 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3150 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3151 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
3152 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3153 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3154 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3155 hit another character.
3156 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3157 non-replace Insert mode?
3158 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
3159 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3160 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3161 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3162 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
3163 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
3164 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3165 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3166 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3167 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3169 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3173 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3174 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3175 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3177 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3178 folds when going to another line.
3179 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3180 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3181 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3182 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3183 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3184 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3188 8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
3189 "g?" is already used for rot13.
3190 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
3191 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
3192 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
3193 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3194 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3195 Perl does it this way:
3196 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3197 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3198 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3199 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
3200 8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3201 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3203 7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3204 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
3205 8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3206 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
3207 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
3208 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3209 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3210 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
3211 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3213 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
3214 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
3215 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3216 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
3217 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3218 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
3219 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3221 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3223 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3224 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3225 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3226 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3227 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3228 Alternative: use matchit.vim
3229 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
3230 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3231 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3232 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
3233 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3235 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3237 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3238 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
3239 8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3240 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
3241 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3242 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3243 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3245 - Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3247 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3248 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3249 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3250 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3251 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3252 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
3253 8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3254 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
3255 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3256 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
3257 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3258 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3259 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
3260 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3263 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3264 v use Vi regexp syntax
3265 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3266 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3267 Perl uses these too:
3268 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3269 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3270 o compile only once (Perl only)
3271 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3272 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3273 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3275 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3276 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3277 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3279 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3280 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3281 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3282 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3283 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3284 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3285 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3286 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
3287 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
3288 a for the next file in the argument list
3289 f for file in the buffer list
3290 w for file edited in a window.
3291 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3292 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
3293 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3294 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3295 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
3296 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
3297 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
3298 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3299 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3300 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3301 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
3302 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3304 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3305 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3306 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
3307 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
3312 9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3314 8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3315 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3317 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3319 8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3320 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3321 was changed outside of Vim.
3322 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3323 storing the differences.
3324 8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3325 state, so that you can jump to it.
3326 - Persistent undo: store undo in a file.
3327 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
3328 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
3329 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
3330 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
3331 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3332 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
3333 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3334 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3335 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
3336 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3337 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3338 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3339 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
3340 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3341 only remember the lines that really changed.
3342 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3343 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3344 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3345 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
3346 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3347 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3348 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3349 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3350 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3351 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3353 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3354 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
3355 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3356 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
3360 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
3361 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
3362 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
3363 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
3364 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
3365 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
3366 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
3368 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
3369 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
3370 number in use plus one?).
3371 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
3372 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
3373 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
3374 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
3375 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
3376 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
3377 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
3378 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
3379 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
3380 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
3381 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
3382 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
3383 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
3384 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
3385 internal use and for when executing an external program?
3389 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
3390 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
3391 there are short file name problems.
3392 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3393 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
3394 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
3395 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
3396 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
3397 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
3398 file the same as the actual file?
3399 Use the code for resolve()?
3400 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
3401 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
3402 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
3403 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
3404 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
3406 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
3408 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
3409 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
3410 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
3411 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
3412 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
3413 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
3414 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
3415 cached list of which line is where.
3419 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
3420 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
3421 else's viminfo file.
3422 8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
3423 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
3424 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
3425 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
3427 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
3428 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
3429 8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
3430 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
3431 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
3432 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
3434 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
3435 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
3436 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
3437 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
3438 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
3439 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
3440 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
3441 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
3445 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
3446 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
3447 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
3448 - Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
3449 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
3451 - Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
3453 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
3454 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
3456 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
3457 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
3458 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
3460 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
3461 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
3462 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
3463 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
3467 8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
3468 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3469 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
3470 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
3471 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
3472 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
3473 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
3474 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
3476 7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
3478 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
3482 7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
3483 restore it after the command has executed.
3484 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
3485 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
3487 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
3488 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
3490 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
3491 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
3492 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
3493 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
3494 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
3495 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
3499 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
3500 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
3501 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
3502 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
3504 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
3505 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
3506 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
3507 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
3511 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
3512 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
3513 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
3514 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
3515 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
3516 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
3517 7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
3518 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
3519 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
3520 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
3521 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
3522 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
3523 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
3524 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
3525 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
3526 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
3527 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
3528 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
3529 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
3530 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
3534 8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
3535 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
3536 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
3537 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
3538 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
3539 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
3540 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
3541 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
3543 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
3544 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
3545 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
3547 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
3548 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
3549 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
3550 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
3551 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
3552 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
3554 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
3555 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
3556 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
3557 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
3558 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
3560 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
3561 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
3562 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
3566 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
3568 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
3570 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
3572 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
3573 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
3574 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
3578 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
3579 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
3580 shortname conversion.
3581 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
3582 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
3584 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
3585 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
3586 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
3587 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
3588 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
3589 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
3590 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
3591 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
3592 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
3593 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
3594 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
3595 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
3596 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
3597 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3598 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
3599 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3600 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3601 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3602 waiting for a character to be typed).
3603 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3604 line of the window, like "[time]".
3605 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3606 Automatic and/or with a command.
3610 8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
3611 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
3612 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
3613 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3614 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3615 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
3616 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3617 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
3618 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
3619 :s///N substitutes N times.
3620 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3621 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3622 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
3623 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3624 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3626 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3627 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3628 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3633 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
3634 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
3635 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3636 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3637 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
3638 7 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
3639 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3640 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3641 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3642 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3643 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3647 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3648 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
3652 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3653 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3654 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
3655 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3659 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
3660 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3662 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3663 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3665 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3666 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3667 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3668 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3669 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3670 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3671 leader when line wraps?
3672 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3674 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3675 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
3676 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3677 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
3681 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
3682 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
3683 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
3684 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
3685 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3686 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3687 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
3688 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
3689 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3692 Various improvements:
3693 8 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
3694 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
3695 7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
3696 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
3697 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
3698 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
3699 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
3700 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
3702 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
3703 7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
3705 7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
3706 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
3707 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3708 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
3709 7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
3710 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
3712 - Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3714 7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3715 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
3716 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3717 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
3718 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
3719 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3720 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3721 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
3722 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
3723 Assign them to a v: variable?
3724 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3725 window as a buffer-tab selection.
3726 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3727 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
3728 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3729 all changes are gone.
3730 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
3731 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3732 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3733 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3735 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
3736 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
3737 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3738 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3739 have it apply to the following command.
3740 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3741 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3742 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3743 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
3744 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3745 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
3746 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3747 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3748 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3749 without modifier (unless mapped).
3750 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
3751 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
3752 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
3753 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
3754 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3755 highlighted differently.
3756 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3757 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3758 (truncated to fit in the space).
3759 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
3760 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
3761 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3763 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
3764 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
3765 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3766 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
3767 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
3768 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
3769 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
3770 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
3771 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3772 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3773 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3774 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
3775 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
3776 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3777 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
3778 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
3779 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
3780 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3781 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3782 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3783 does something like this. (Shah)
3784 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
3785 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3786 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
3787 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
3788 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3789 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3790 - Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3791 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
3792 jumps). (Webb) Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
3793 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3794 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3795 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
3796 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3797 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3798 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3799 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
3800 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3801 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3802 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3803 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3804 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3805 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3806 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3807 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3808 call "play newbeep.au").
3809 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3810 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3812 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3813 blockwise registers).
3814 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3815 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3816 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3817 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3818 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3820 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
3821 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3822 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3823 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3824 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3825 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3826 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3827 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
3828 8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
3829 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
3830 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3831 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3832 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3833 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3834 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3835 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
3836 - Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
3837 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3838 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3839 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3841 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3842 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
3843 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3844 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
3845 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
3847 :redir #>> bufname (append)
3848 - Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
3849 redirection was active.
3850 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3851 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3852 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
3853 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3854 console? (Klaus Hast)
3855 - Add :delcr command:
3857 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3858 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3859 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3860 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3861 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3862 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3863 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3864 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3865 characters from 'isprint'.
3866 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3867 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3868 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3869 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3870 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3871 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3872 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3873 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3875 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3876 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
3877 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3878 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3879 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
3880 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3881 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3882 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3884 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
3885 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3886 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3887 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
3888 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3889 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3890 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3891 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3892 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3893 if it is not the first or last window.
3894 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3895 there is one) instead of the file itself.
3896 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3897 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3898 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3899 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3900 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
3901 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
3902 many percent down the windows).
3903 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3904 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3905 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3906 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3907 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3908 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3909 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3910 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3911 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3912 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3913 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
3914 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3915 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3916 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3917 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3918 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
3919 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3921 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
3922 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3923 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
3924 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3926 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
3927 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
3928 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3929 hex codes like 0xff).
3930 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3931 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3932 the last TYPED command.
3933 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3934 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3935 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3937 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
3938 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3939 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3941 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3943 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3944 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3945 find_file_in_path().
3946 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3947 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3948 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3949 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3950 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3951 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
3952 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
3953 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3954 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3955 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
3956 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
3957 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3958 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3959 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3960 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3961 to the minimal size.
3962 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3963 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3964 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3965 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3966 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3967 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3968 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3969 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3970 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3972 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3973 as an output filter.
3974 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
3975 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3976 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3977 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3978 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3979 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3981 - Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
3982 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3983 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3984 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3986 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3987 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
3988 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
3989 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3990 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3991 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3992 insert line command).
3993 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3994 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3995 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3996 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3997 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3998 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
3999 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
4001 - Implement 'redraw' option.
4002 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4003 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
4004 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4005 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
4006 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4008 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4010 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4011 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4012 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4013 - Add text justification option.
4014 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4015 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4017 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4018 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4019 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
4020 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
4021 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
4022 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
4023 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4024 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4026 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4027 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4028 - :table command (Webb)
4029 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
4030 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4031 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4032 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4033 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4034 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4036 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4037 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4038 for use in macro's and the like.
4039 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
4040 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
4041 - Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
4042 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4043 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4045 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
4046 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
4047 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4048 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4049 proportionally (Webb).
4050 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
4051 mkopttab to make option table?
4052 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4053 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4054 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4056 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
4057 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4058 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4060 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4061 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
4062 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4063 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
4064 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4065 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4066 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4067 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4069 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4070 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4072 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4073 space after "(", for example.
4074 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4075 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4080 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4081 - Add ":alias" command.
4082 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4084 \@ match word under cursor.
4086 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4087 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
4088 8 ":window" command:
4089 :win + next window (up)
4090 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4091 :win - previous window (down)
4092 :win -- idem, wrapping
4093 :win nr to window number "nr"
4094 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
4095 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4096 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4100 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4101 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4102 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
4103 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4104 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
4105 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4107 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4109 :Edit fname :split fname
4110 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4111 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4112 :Previous :sprevious
4117 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4118 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4122 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4123 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4124 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4127 Far future and "big" extensions:
4128 - Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4129 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4130 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4131 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4132 would also work on MS-Windows.
4133 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4134 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4135 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4136 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4137 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4138 current layout mirrored.
4139 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4140 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4141 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4142 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4143 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4144 font in each top-level window.
4145 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4146 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4147 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4148 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4149 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4150 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4151 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4152 mentioned in the tags file.
4153 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4154 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4155 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4156 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4157 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4158 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
4159 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4160 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4161 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4162 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
4163 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
4164 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4165 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4166 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4167 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4168 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4170 When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4171 empty line would appear.
4173 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: