1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.2. Last change: 2008 Sep 16
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 Patch 7.2.007 broke test30 on MS-Windows. (Daniel Shahaf, 2008 Sep 5)
35 :cscope is listed as OK in the sandbox, but it probably isn't.
38 ":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
39 first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
41 List of recently used files: Use viminfo marks list?
42 Read into list, to be used from Vim script: v:oldfiles
43 List file names: :oldfiles
44 Use a file name: :e #<N
45 Completion after ":e #<" ?
47 Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
49 diff mode: when using two tabs with each two diffed buffers, switching buffers
50 causes the diff to fail. (Matt Mzyzik, 2008 Aug 31)
52 netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
53 number to be below last visible line.
55 Update src/testdir/main.aap.
57 Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
59 Patch to add extra argument to glob() and globpath() to ignore 'wildignore'.
60 (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jun 25)
62 Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
63 11) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
64 in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
65 Another valgrind output Jun 30.
67 Patch to make synIDattr() support "guisp". (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Aug 15)
69 Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
70 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
71 Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
73 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
74 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
75 fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
76 the buffer to be unmodified.
77 Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
80 You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
81 error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
82 Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
83 at the other match for 0xBF.
85 Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
87 When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
88 argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
90 Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
91 backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
93 Patch to set v:prevcount properly. (Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 20)
95 After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
96 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
97 command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
99 ":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
100 Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
102 ":colorscheme" without arguments should echo the current color scheme name.
104 Patch for colorscheme submenu. (Juergen Kraemer, 2008 Aug 20)
106 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
108 Patch by Paul B. Mahol, 2008 Aug 29.
110 Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
111 Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
112 Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
113 Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
114 (Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
116 Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
118 Patch for 2html.vim to avoid "&nbsp;". (Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Jul 19)
120 Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
121 (Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
122 escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
123 an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
124 This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
127 The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
128 Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
129 Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
130 find_special_key() also has this problem.
132 Problem with 'langmap' parsing. (James Vega, 2008 Jan 27)
133 Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
136 Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
137 Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
138 'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
140 Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
141 Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
143 The utf class table is missing some entries:
149 Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
150 line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
152 GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
153 Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
155 Patch for Ruby sockets. (todesking/Ariya Mizutani, 2008 Jul 1,24)
157 Mac: Patch to disable antialias. (LC Mi, 2008 Aug 23) Tested on 10.5 and
160 Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
161 changed or the window is resized.
163 Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
164 Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
166 Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
167 1) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
169 ":emenu" works with the translated menu name. Should also work with the
170 untranslated name. Would need to store both the English and the translated
171 name. Patch by Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Mar 30.
173 C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
174 with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
175 Try to reproduce at work.
177 Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
178 Await response to question to make the register writable.
180 src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
183 Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
186 try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
188 Including NFA regexp code:
189 Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
192 - ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
193 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
195 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
198 Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
199 Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
201 Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
202 Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
205 C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
206 (Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
208 When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
209 and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
211 Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
212 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
214 New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
216 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
219 Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
220 other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
222 The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
223 appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
224 matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
226 When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
227 character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
228 'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
229 (ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
231 Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
232 by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
233 Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
234 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
236 Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
237 Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
239 More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
241 Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
242 back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
243 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
245 Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
246 No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
248 With Visual selection, "r" and then CTRL-C Visual mode is stopped but the
249 highlighting is not removed.
251 Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
252 terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
254 Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
256 Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
257 but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
258 that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
260 When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
262 Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
263 popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
264 size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
265 This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
267 When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
268 to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
270 Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
271 superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
273 Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
274 a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
277 Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
278 then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
279 files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
280 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
281 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
282 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
283 in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
284 quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
285 Kelling, 2008 July 4)
287 When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
288 parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
289 neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
290 particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
292 However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
293 the user put quotes around the expanded item?
295 Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
296 Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
298 Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
299 switch list is noticed:
306 Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
308 Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
309 with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
310 go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
311 moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
313 Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
314 Sep 18) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 8.
316 Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
319 Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
320 Sutcliffe says it works well.
321 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
323 Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
325 Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
327 ":cscope find f filename" doesn't work because of the extra space. (Ethan
330 Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
331 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
332 New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
333 patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
335 Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
336 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
338 Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
339 Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
340 Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
342 Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
344 Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
346 Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
348 Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
349 label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
351 Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
352 with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
353 Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
355 Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
356 Build another diff.exe somehow?
358 Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
359 pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
361 Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
363 Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
364 Unfished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
365 Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
367 When 'bomb' is changed the window title is updated to show/hide a "+", but the
368 tab page label isn't. (Patrick Texier, 2008 Jun 24)
370 When file b is a link to file a and editing b twice you get the correct
371 warning for existing swap file, but when trying to recover it doesn't find the
372 swapfile. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Aug 5) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 11.
373 Another patch by James Vega, 2008 Aug 20, again 2008 Sep 3.
374 Also solves: Problem finding swap file for recovery. (Gautam Iyer, 2006 May 16)
376 Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
377 Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
379 Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
380 Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
381 Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
384 Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
387 When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
390 If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
392 When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
393 (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
395 F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
396 modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
397 K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
399 UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
400 to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
402 In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
403 the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
405 C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
407 ":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
409 When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
410 error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
412 Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
413 use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
415 Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
418 Problem with cursorcolumn highlighting and folds. (John Mullin, 2008 Jul 18)
420 Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
421 character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
423 ":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
425 The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
428 Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
429 error. Should only happen when there are wildards, not when giving the file
430 name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
432 Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
433 longer than 2 seconds.
435 Changing 'guifont' in the console causes an unnecessary redraw.
437 Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
438 Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
440 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
441 Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
443 VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
444 directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
447 VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
449 input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
452 getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
453 element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
455 Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
457 When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
458 (patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
459 Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
460 will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
462 ":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
463 Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
465 aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
467 When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
468 (Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
470 Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
471 the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
473 Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
474 Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
475 Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
476 argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
477 (Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
479 Gvimext patch to support wide file names. (Szabolcs Horvat 2008 Sep 10)
481 GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
483 Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
486 Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
488 Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
489 that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
491 When 'ff' is "mac" then "ga" on a ^J shows 0x0d instead of 0x0a. Compare with
492 using "ga" on a NUL when 'ff' is "unix". (Andy Wokula, 2008 Jul 16)
494 Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
495 moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
496 that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
498 The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
500 In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
501 but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
504 Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
507 When showing a diff between a non-existant file and an existing one, with the
508 cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
509 the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
511 Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
514 Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
515 shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
516 fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
517 background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
518 A.Politz may work on this.
520 The spellfile plugin checks for a writable "spell" directory. A user may have
521 a writable runtime directory without a "spell" directory, it could be created
524 These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
525 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
526 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
529 Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
532 In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
533 buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
536 New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
539 For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
541 Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
542 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
544 Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
545 tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
546 doesn't contain other directories.
549 - Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
550 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
552 - Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
554 Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
555 start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
556 show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
559 When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
560 (using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
561 connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
562 dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
564 Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
566 When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
567 Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
569 Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
570 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
571 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
572 - getting colors in xterm
573 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
575 Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
576 Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
578 Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
580 A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
583 Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
586 GTK: When maximizing Vim the result is slightly smaller, the filler border is
587 not there, and the "maximize" button is still there. Clicking it again does
588 give a maximized window. (Darren Hiebert)
589 Problem is that gui_mch_set_text_area_pos() is invoked to change the text area
590 size, which causes the toplevel window to resize. When doing this while the
591 size is already right the filler remains there.
592 Detect using the maximize button (GdkWindowState bit
593 GDK_WINDOW_STATE_MAXIMIZED) and set it again?
595 Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
596 number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
598 GTK: when using the -geom argument with an offset from the right edge and the
599 size is smaller than the default, the Vim window is not positioned properly.
601 After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
602 the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
604 Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
605 Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
608 There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
610 Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
611 copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
612 error and stop using the connection to the server.
614 Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
615 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
617 In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
618 check the result of has("patch13").
620 Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
621 restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
623 Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
624 put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
626 Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
627 resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
629 Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
630 to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
632 GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
633 maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
634 doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
635 Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
638 GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
639 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
641 The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
644 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
645 script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
647 It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
648 the function name before resolving it to a number?
655 Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
656 only set after Visual moded is ended.
657 Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
658 used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
660 Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
661 output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
662 Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
664 Win32, NTFS: When editing an specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
665 "auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
666 name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
667 Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
669 Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
670 (David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
672 Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
673 as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
675 Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
678 Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
681 ":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
682 tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
685 xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
686 buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
687 Xterm 224 supports it!
689 When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
690 text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
691 latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
693 Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
695 Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
696 no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
698 Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
699 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
700 somehow? Or use a new function.
702 In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
703 VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
706 When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
707 disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
709 TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
710 Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
712 Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
714 Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
716 When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
717 typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
720 When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
721 respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
722 the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
723 what happens for the GUI.
725 X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
726 pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
727 clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
728 Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
729 Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
730 clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
734 - STARTUPTIME is difficult to enable. Use --startuptime=fname argument?
735 Does this require a configure check?
736 - Add patch for 'relativenumber' option? Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Jun 27.
737 - Add blowfish encryption. Openssl has an implementation. Also by Paul
738 Kocher (LGPL), close to original. Mohsin also has some ideas.
739 Take four bytes and turn them into unsigned to avoid byte-order problems.
740 Need to buffer up to 7 bytes to align on 8 byte boundaries.
741 - ":{range}source": source the lines from the file.
742 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
743 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
744 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
748 - Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
749 - Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
751 - Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
753 - Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
755 - 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
756 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
757 - Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
758 - Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
759 - ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
760 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
762 - gettabvar() and settabvar() functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2007 Sep 13,
764 - recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
765 - Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
766 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
767 - Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
768 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
769 - Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
771 - Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
772 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
773 - When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
774 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
775 - testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
779 Awaiting updated patches:
780 9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
781 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
782 New patch 2004 Jun 16
783 - selecting proportional font breaks display
784 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
785 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
786 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
788 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
789 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
791 9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
792 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
793 8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
794 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
795 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
796 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
798 How does this work? Missing comments.
799 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
800 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
801 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
802 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
803 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
804 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
805 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
806 for multi-byte characters.
807 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
808 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
809 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
811 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
812 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
813 with an ESC sequence.
814 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
816 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
817 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
818 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
819 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
820 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
821 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
823 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
825 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
826 Search in 'runtimepath'?
827 More docs needed about how to use this.
828 How to get the messages into the .po files?
829 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
831 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
832 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
833 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
835 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
836 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
837 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
838 useful for interactive things or completion.
839 col('^') column of first non-white character.
840 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
841 + 1", but that's ugly.
842 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
843 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
844 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
845 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
846 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
847 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
848 8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
849 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
850 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
851 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
852 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
853 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
854 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
855 Kotchan has a patch for it)
856 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
857 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
858 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
859 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
860 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
861 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
862 incomplete patch Mar 18)
863 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
864 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
865 - Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
869 - Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
870 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
871 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
872 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
873 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
874 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
875 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
876 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
877 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
879 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
880 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
881 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
882 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
883 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
884 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
885 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
886 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
887 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
888 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
889 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
890 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
891 names in one buffer???
892 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
893 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
894 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
895 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
896 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
897 command was one command.
898 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
899 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
900 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
901 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
902 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
903 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
904 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
905 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
906 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
907 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
908 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
909 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
910 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
911 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
912 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
913 to the match with the tag? Option?
914 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
915 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
917 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
918 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
919 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
920 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
921 match. Nvi can do it too.
922 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
923 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
927 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
928 the way the shell is started?
929 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
930 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
933 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
934 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
935 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
936 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
937 the minimal window width?
938 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
939 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
940 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
941 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
944 9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
945 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
946 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
948 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
949 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
950 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
951 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
952 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
953 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
954 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
955 - Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
956 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
960 Win32 GUI known bugs:
961 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
963 8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
965 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
966 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
967 8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
968 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
969 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
970 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
971 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
972 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
973 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
974 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
975 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
976 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
977 "lucida_console:h8").
978 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
979 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
980 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
981 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
983 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
984 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
985 to use an opaque background in most places?
986 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
987 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
988 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
989 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
990 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
991 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
992 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
994 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
995 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
996 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
998 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
999 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1000 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1001 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
1002 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1003 appear. (Sami Salonen)
1004 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1005 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1006 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1007 doesn't work properly.
1008 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1009 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1010 appears in the right position. (Webb)
1011 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1012 button doesn't give popup menu.
1013 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1015 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1016 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1017 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
1018 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1019 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1020 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1021 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
1022 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1023 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1025 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1026 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1027 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
1028 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1029 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
1031 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1032 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
1033 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1034 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
1035 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
1036 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1037 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1038 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
1039 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1040 know which keyboard is being used?
1041 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1042 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1044 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1045 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1046 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1051 6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1052 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1053 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1054 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1055 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
1056 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1057 required and it's missing?
1058 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1060 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1062 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
1063 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1065 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1066 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1067 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
1068 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
1069 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1070 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1071 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1072 the tooltips work though...
1073 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1074 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
1075 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1076 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1077 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1081 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1082 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1084 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1085 read long file names. (Schroeder)
1086 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1087 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1088 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1089 problem during a refresh.
1090 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1091 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1092 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1093 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1094 colors as it should.
1095 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1096 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1100 - gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1101 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1102 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
1103 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1104 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1109 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1110 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
1111 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
1112 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
1113 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
1114 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1115 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
1116 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1117 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
1118 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1119 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1120 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
1121 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1122 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1123 of where it is processing the output.
1124 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
1125 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1127 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
1128 8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1129 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1131 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
1132 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1134 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1135 use that code? Or use console dialog.
1136 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1137 error message disappears too quick.
1138 7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1140 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1141 when all buffers/directory is used:
1142 - filter for file name
1143 when directory is used:
1144 - subdirectory on/off
1145 - top directory browser
1146 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1148 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1149 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1150 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
1151 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1152 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1153 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
1154 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1155 up. Set erase character somehow?
1156 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1157 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1158 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1159 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
1160 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
1161 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1163 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1164 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
1165 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1166 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
1167 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1168 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
1169 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1170 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1171 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1172 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1173 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
1174 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1175 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1176 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1180 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1181 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1182 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
1183 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1184 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
1185 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
1186 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1188 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1189 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1190 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1191 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
1192 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1193 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1194 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1195 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1196 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1197 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1198 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1199 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1200 key code. Use a translation table?
1201 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1202 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
1204 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1205 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
1206 8 setlocale() is bogus.
1207 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1208 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1210 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
1211 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
1212 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
1213 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1214 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1215 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
1216 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1217 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
1218 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1219 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1220 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1222 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1224 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
1225 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1229 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
1230 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1231 gen_expand_wildcards().
1232 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1234 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
1235 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1236 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
1237 8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1238 a good fallback, thus use:
1241 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1243 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1247 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1248 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
1249 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1250 Should work like in the GUI version.
1251 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1252 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
1253 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1254 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
1255 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1256 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1257 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
1258 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1259 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1260 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1264 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
1265 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1266 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
1267 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1268 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1272 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1273 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1274 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1275 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1276 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1277 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1278 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1279 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1280 and the file is not saved.
1281 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1283 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1284 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
1285 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1286 besides the console.
1287 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
1288 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1290 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1291 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
1292 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1293 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
1294 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1295 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1300 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1302 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1303 backslashes in result.
1304 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1305 all options, using white space separation.
1309 - GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1310 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1311 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1312 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
1313 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1314 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1316 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
1317 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1318 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
1319 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
1320 8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1322 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1323 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
1324 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
1325 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
1326 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
1327 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
1328 8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
1329 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
1330 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1331 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
1332 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1333 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
1334 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1335 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
1336 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
1337 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
1338 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1342 - Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1343 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
1344 - When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1345 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
1346 9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1347 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
1348 9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
1349 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1350 file isn't readonly, etc.
1351 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1352 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1353 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
1354 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
1355 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1356 error number, it's not a regular error message.
1357 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1358 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1359 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1360 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1362 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1364 - Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1365 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
1366 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1367 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1368 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1369 using the horizontal scrollbar.
1370 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1371 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1372 invocations belong together.
1373 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1374 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
1375 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1376 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1377 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1378 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1379 Briscoe says it's not as good.
1380 8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1381 8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1382 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1383 an allocated structure?
1384 6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
1385 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1386 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
1387 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1388 use "~/" when possible.
1389 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1390 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1391 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1392 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
1393 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1395 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1396 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1397 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
1398 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1399 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1400 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
1401 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1402 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
1403 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1405 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1406 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1407 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1408 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1409 script can be called.
1410 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1411 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1413 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1415 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1416 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1417 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1418 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1419 won't work for GTK anyway.
1420 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1421 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
1422 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
1423 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1425 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
1426 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1427 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1428 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
1429 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1430 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
1431 8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1432 is a multi-byte character.
1433 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1434 always written, even when the original file already exists.
1435 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1436 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
1437 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1438 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1440 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
1441 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1442 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1443 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
1444 8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1445 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
1446 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1447 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
1448 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1449 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
1450 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1451 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1452 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
1453 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
1454 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1455 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
1456 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1457 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1458 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1459 direction, not horizontally?
1461 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1462 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1463 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1464 dithering to make grey text?
1465 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1466 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
1467 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
1468 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1469 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1470 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1471 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1472 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1473 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
1474 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1475 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
1476 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1477 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1478 that Windows NT is being used?
1479 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1480 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
1481 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1482 in lines that don't extend into the block?
1483 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1484 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1485 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
1486 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1488 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1489 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1491 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
1492 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
1493 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1494 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1495 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1496 'magic' in history. (Margo)
1497 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1498 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
1499 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1501 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
1502 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1503 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1504 cause another redraw, etc.
1505 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1506 must escape special characters in the pattern.
1507 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1508 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1510 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1511 restore file to readonly afterwards.
1512 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
1513 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1514 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1515 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1516 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1518 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1519 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1521 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1522 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1523 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
1524 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1525 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1526 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
1527 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1528 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
1529 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1530 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1531 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
1532 8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
1533 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1535 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1536 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
1537 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1539 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1540 script in do_cmdline().
1541 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1542 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1543 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1545 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1546 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
1547 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1548 check for file marks. This can be slow.
1549 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1550 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1552 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
1553 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1554 to skip catch_signals()?
1555 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1556 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1557 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1559 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1560 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
1561 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1562 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
1563 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1564 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1565 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1566 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1567 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
1568 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1569 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1570 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1572 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1573 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1574 instead of on button down.
1575 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
1576 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1577 reaching the end of the available buffer.
1578 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1580 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1582 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1583 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
1584 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1585 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
1586 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1587 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1588 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1589 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1591 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1592 Remember flags for backreferences.
1593 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1594 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
1595 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1596 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
1597 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1598 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
1599 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1600 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
1601 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1602 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1603 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
1604 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1605 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
1606 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1607 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1608 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
1609 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1610 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
1613 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
1614 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1615 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1616 files. (McCollister)
1619 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
1620 - GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
1621 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
1622 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
1623 - GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
1624 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
1625 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
1626 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
1627 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
1628 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
1630 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1631 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
1632 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
1633 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1634 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1635 worked around with a delay.
1636 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1637 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1638 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1639 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1640 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1641 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1642 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1643 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1644 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1645 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1646 - Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
1647 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1648 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1649 character gets the highlighting.
1650 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1651 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1652 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1654 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1655 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1656 errors. How do we get the rest?
1657 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1658 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1659 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1660 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1661 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1663 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1664 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1665 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1666 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1667 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1668 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1669 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1670 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1672 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1673 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1674 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1675 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1676 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1677 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1678 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1679 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1680 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1681 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1682 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1683 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1684 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1685 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1686 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1687 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1688 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1689 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1690 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1691 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1692 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1693 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1694 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1695 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1696 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1697 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1698 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1699 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1700 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1701 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1702 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1703 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1704 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1705 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1706 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1707 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1708 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1709 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
1710 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1711 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
1712 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1713 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1714 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1715 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1716 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1717 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1718 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1720 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1721 *extensions-improvements*
1723 Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
1724 - Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
1725 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
1727 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
1728 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
1729 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
1730 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
1731 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
1732 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
1733 http://clewn.sf.net.
1734 And the idevim plugin/script.
1735 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
1736 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
1737 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
1739 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
1740 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1741 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
1743 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
1744 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
1745 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
1746 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
1747 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
1748 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
1749 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
1750 - STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
1751 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
1752 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
1753 - Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
1754 first line to be able to start halfway.
1755 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
1756 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
1757 http://vimshell.wana.at
1758 - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) patch by Luis Carvalho, 2008 Sep 5
1759 Patch for Make_ming.mak from Paul Moore (2008 Sep 1)
1760 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1761 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
1762 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
1763 taglist() can be used.
1764 - X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
1765 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
1769 8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
1771 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1772 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
1773 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1775 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
1776 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
1777 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1778 - change to cursor position and curswant
1779 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1780 - how it works for folded lines
1781 - how it works with multi-byte characters
1782 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1784 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1785 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1787 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
1788 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1789 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
1790 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1791 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1792 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
1793 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1797 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1798 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1799 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1800 to the other matches.
1801 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1802 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1803 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1804 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1805 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1807 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1808 height for the help window (and other windows).
1809 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1810 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1811 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1815 8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1816 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1817 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1818 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1820 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
1821 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1822 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1823 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
1824 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1825 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1826 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1828 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1829 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1833 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1835 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
1836 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1837 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1839 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
1840 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
1841 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1842 7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
1843 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
1844 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
1845 8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
1846 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
1847 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
1848 global_event_filter() for GTK.
1852 9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
1853 7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
1855 8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
1856 8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
1857 8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
1858 8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
1859 7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
1860 7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
1861 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
1862 7 Add local variables for each tab page?
1863 8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
1865 7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
1866 7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
1867 window-local directories?
1871 - have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
1872 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
1873 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
1874 languages in the file.
1875 - Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
1876 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
1877 - Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
1878 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
1879 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
1880 - Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
1882 - The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
1883 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
1884 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
1885 - Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
1886 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
1887 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
1888 - Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
1889 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
1890 - There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffic Voikko is now
1891 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
1893 8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
1894 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
1895 8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
1896 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
1897 8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
1898 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
1899 items and check if the result is a valid word.
1900 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
1901 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
1902 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
1903 How is it supposed to work?
1904 8 implement using CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN: match words with sl_comppat[].
1905 - Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
1906 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
1907 - suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
1908 - For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
1909 the word are not used.
1910 - Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
1911 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
1912 - Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
1913 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
1914 - NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
1915 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
1916 - Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
1917 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
1918 - New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
1919 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
1920 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
1921 in the affix file separately.
1922 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
1923 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
1924 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
1925 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
1926 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
1927 8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to
1928 obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen)
1929 - CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
1930 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
1931 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
1932 specific prefixes with suffixes.
1934 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
1935 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
1936 affix which is required.
1937 - When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
1939 - Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
1940 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
1941 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
1942 - MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
1943 word/flags and affix.
1944 - Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
1945 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
1946 - Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
1947 8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
1948 syntax items (to add @Spell).
1949 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
1950 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
1951 - References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
1952 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
1953 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
1954 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
1955 8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
1956 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
1957 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
1958 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
1959 use of words with a dash.
1960 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
1961 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
1962 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
1963 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
1964 in English, strings in German (po file).
1968 9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
1969 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
1970 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1971 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1972 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
1973 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
1974 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
1975 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1976 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1981 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
1982 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
1983 8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
1984 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
1985 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
1986 9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
1987 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
1988 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1990 7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1991 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1992 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1994 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1995 commands skip over a closed fold.
1996 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
1997 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
1998 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
1999 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2000 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2001 missing line goes unnoticed.
2002 How to implement this?
2003 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2004 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2006 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2007 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
2008 - When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2010 args version.c main.c
2012 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
2013 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
2014 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
2015 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
2016 - "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2018 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2020 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2022 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
2023 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
2027 Multi-byte characters:
2028 - When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2029 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2030 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2031 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
2032 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2033 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2034 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2036 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2037 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2038 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2039 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2040 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2042 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
2043 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2044 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
2045 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2046 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2047 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2048 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
2049 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2050 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
2051 8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2052 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2053 different fileencoding for filter output?
2054 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2055 so that the user can fix the problem.
2056 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2058 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
2059 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
2060 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
2061 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
2062 7 Searching and composing characters:
2063 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2064 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2065 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2066 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2067 characters can be manipulated.
2068 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2069 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
2070 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
2071 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
2072 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2074 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
2075 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2076 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
2077 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2078 'display' option to specify this.
2079 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2080 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2081 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2082 fontselector somehow.
2083 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2084 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2085 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2086 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2087 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2088 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2089 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2090 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2092 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
2093 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
2094 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2095 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
2096 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2097 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
2098 - Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
2099 Patch from Konstantin Korikov, 2006 Oct 15.
2100 - Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2101 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2102 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2103 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
2104 - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
2105 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
2106 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2107 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2108 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2109 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2110 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2111 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2112 But it's very complicated...
2116 7 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
2117 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2118 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2119 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
2120 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2122 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2123 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2124 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
2125 - PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2126 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
2127 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2128 units as for the margins.
2129 - Support right-to-left text?
2130 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2134 Syntax highlighting:
2135 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2136 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
2137 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2138 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
2139 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2140 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
2141 7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2142 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
2143 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2144 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2146 7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2147 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2148 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
2149 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
2150 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2151 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
2152 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2153 Search highlighting.
2154 7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2155 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
2156 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2157 change this for each release.
2158 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2159 pattern, but not in the body.
2160 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2161 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2162 instead of the containing item.
2163 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
2164 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2165 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2166 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2167 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
2168 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2169 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
2170 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2171 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
2172 Option for the matchparen plugin?
2173 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2174 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2175 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2177 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2178 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
2179 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2180 re-insert the [] if possible.
2181 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2183 8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2184 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2185 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2186 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2187 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
2188 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2189 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
2190 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
2191 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2192 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2193 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
2194 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2195 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2197 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2198 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2199 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
2200 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2202 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
2203 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
2204 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2205 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
2206 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
2207 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
2208 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2211 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2213 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
2214 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2215 current line while in Insert mode.
2216 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2217 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
2218 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2220 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2221 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2222 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
2223 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2224 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2225 highlighting starts.
2226 8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2227 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2229 7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2230 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2231 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2232 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2234 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2235 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2237 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
2238 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2239 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2240 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
2241 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
2242 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2244 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
2245 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
2246 8 Add more command line completion for :sign.
2247 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2248 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2250 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2251 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
2252 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2253 select one of the sets.
2254 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2255 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2257 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2258 highlighting (for "." command).
2259 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2260 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
2261 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
2262 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2263 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
2264 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2265 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2266 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2267 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2268 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
2269 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2270 (for comment blocks).
2271 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2272 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2273 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2274 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2275 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2276 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2277 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2278 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2280 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2281 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
2282 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2283 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
2284 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2285 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2286 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
2287 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2288 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2289 messages. And external commands?
2290 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2291 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
2292 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2293 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2296 Built-in script language:
2297 8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2298 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
2299 7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2300 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2301 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
2302 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2303 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
2304 - Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2306 - range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
2307 7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2308 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
2309 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
2310 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2311 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2312 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2313 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2315 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2316 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2317 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
2318 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2319 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2320 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2321 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2323 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2324 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2325 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2326 file belongs to a sourced script?
2327 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2328 signs and/or 'number'.
2329 6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2332 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2333 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2334 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2335 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2336 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2337 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2338 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
2339 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2340 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2342 Only add this when also implemented for
2343 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2345 get_user_name() gets login name.
2346 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2347 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2348 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2349 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2350 File.Open..." argument.
2351 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2352 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2353 with properties instead.
2354 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2355 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2356 Return a list instead.
2357 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
2358 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
2359 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
2360 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
2361 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
2362 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
2363 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2364 find out what happened)
2365 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2367 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
2368 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2369 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
2370 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2371 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2372 to allow the library to execute a command or
2373 evaluate an expression.
2374 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2375 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
2376 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2377 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
2378 8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2379 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
2380 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
2381 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2382 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
2383 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
2384 8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2386 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2387 option or environment variable.
2388 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
2389 8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
2390 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2391 available as a List.
2392 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2393 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
2394 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
2395 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2396 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2397 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2399 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2400 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2402 result = scratch(string, command)
2403 result = apply(string, command)
2404 result = execute(string, command)
2405 "command" would use <> notation.
2406 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
2407 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
2408 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2409 option for the search path. (Sekera)
2413 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2414 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2415 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2416 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2417 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2418 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2419 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
2423 7 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2424 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
2425 8 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2426 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2427 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2428 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
2429 8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2430 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2431 repeating it in various system files.
2432 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
2433 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
2434 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
2435 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2436 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
2437 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2438 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2439 when starting up in a color terminal.
2440 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2442 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
2444 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2445 function be improved?
2446 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2447 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2448 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2450 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2451 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
2452 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2453 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
2454 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2455 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
2456 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2457 lot of abbreviations).
2458 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
2459 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2460 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2461 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2462 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2463 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2464 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2465 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
2466 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2467 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2468 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2469 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
2470 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2471 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2472 using strcmp() too often?
2473 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2474 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2475 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2476 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2477 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2478 the two blocks to the memfile block.
2479 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2480 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2481 with an argument that can be messed with.
2482 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2483 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
2484 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2485 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
2486 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2487 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2488 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2489 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2490 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2494 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2495 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2496 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2497 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2498 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2499 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
2500 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
2501 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2502 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2504 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2505 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2506 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2507 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2508 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2509 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2510 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2511 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2512 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2513 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2514 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2515 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2516 cursor is right of the screen.
2517 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2522 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2523 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2524 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
2525 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
2526 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2528 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2530 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2532 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2536 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2537 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
2538 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2539 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
2540 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2542 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2543 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2544 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
2545 8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2547 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2548 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2549 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2550 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2552 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2553 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
2554 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2555 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2556 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2557 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2558 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2559 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
2560 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
2561 Sleep before second message?
2562 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2563 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2564 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2565 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2566 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2567 error messages, printing text, etc.
2568 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2569 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2570 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2574 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2575 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2576 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2578 - insert/delete character stuff.
2579 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2580 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2581 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2582 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2583 waiting for a character.
2584 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2585 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2586 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
2587 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
2591 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
2592 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2593 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2594 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2596 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2597 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2598 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2599 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2600 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2602 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2604 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2605 be bound by regexp searches
2606 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
2607 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2608 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2609 of lines but not with a single line).
2613 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
2614 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2615 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2616 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2617 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2618 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2619 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2620 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2624 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
2625 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
2626 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
2627 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2631 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2632 :libload internal-name libname
2633 :libunload internal-name
2635 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2636 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2637 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
2638 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2642 9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
2643 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
2644 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
2645 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
2646 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
2647 8 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
2648 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
2649 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
2650 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originall (Erik Falor, 2008
2651 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
2652 8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2653 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2655 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2656 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2657 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2658 7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
2659 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
2661 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
2662 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
2663 to type the tag number directly.
2664 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
2665 window for each tag.
2666 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
2667 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
2668 bottom" search message.
2669 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
2670 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
2671 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
2672 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
2673 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
2674 - Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
2675 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
2676 what you were working on.
2677 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
2678 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
2679 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
2680 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
2681 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
2682 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
2684 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
2686 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
2687 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
2688 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
2689 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
2690 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
2691 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
2692 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
2693 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
2694 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
2698 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
2699 the message and input?
2700 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
2701 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
2703 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
2705 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
2706 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
2707 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
2708 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
2709 common part of the path.
2710 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
2711 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
2712 gettext and menus work.
2713 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
2714 return in every console.
2715 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
2716 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
2717 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
2718 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
2719 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
2720 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
2721 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
2722 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
2723 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
2724 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
2725 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
2726 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
2727 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
2729 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
2730 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
2731 the file added into an already running Vim.
2732 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
2733 functions to find the window title.
2737 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
2738 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
2739 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
2740 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
2741 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
2742 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
2743 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
2744 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
2745 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
2746 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
2747 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
2748 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
2749 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
2750 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
2751 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
2752 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2753 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
2754 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2755 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2756 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2757 running them in separate processes.
2758 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
2759 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2760 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
2761 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
2762 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
2763 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
2764 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
2765 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
2767 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
2768 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
2769 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2770 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2771 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
2772 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2773 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2774 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
2775 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2776 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
2777 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2778 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2779 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2780 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
2781 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2782 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
2783 7 Should support multi-column menus.
2784 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2785 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2786 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
2787 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
2788 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2789 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
2790 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
2791 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2792 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2793 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
2794 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
2795 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2796 name can be chosen free.
2797 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2798 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
2799 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2800 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2801 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2802 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2803 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2804 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2806 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2807 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
2808 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
2809 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
2810 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2811 where it was started from?
2812 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2816 - Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
2817 8 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
2818 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
2819 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2820 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2821 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2822 changing the buffer name.
2823 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2824 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
2825 7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
2826 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2827 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
2828 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2829 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2831 8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
2832 after typing something.
2833 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
2834 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
2835 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
2836 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2837 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2838 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
2839 7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
2841 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2842 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
2843 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
2844 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2845 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
2846 7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
2847 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2848 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2849 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2850 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
2851 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2852 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2853 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
2854 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2855 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2857 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2858 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2859 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
2860 - Add events to autocommands:
2861 Error - When an error happens
2862 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2863 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2864 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
2866 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
2867 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
2868 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2869 when exiting isn't a good idea.
2870 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
2871 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
2872 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
2873 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2874 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2875 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2877 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2878 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2879 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2880 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2881 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2882 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2883 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2884 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2886 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2887 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2889 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2890 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2891 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2892 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2893 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2894 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2895 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
2897 WinResized - After a window has been resized
2898 WinClose - Just before closing a window
2899 - Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
2900 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2901 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2902 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2903 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2904 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2905 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2906 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2910 - Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
2911 mix it with other kinds of completion).
2912 - Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
2913 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
2914 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
2915 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
2916 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
2917 - Ideas from others:
2918 http://www.wholetomato.com/
2919 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
2920 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
2921 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
2922 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
2923 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
2924 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
2925 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
2927 Uses ctags to find the info:
2928 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
2929 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
2930 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
2931 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
2932 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
2933 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
2934 Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
2935 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
2936 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
2939 Insert mode completion/expansion:
2940 - GUI implementation of the popup menu.
2941 7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
2942 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
2943 7 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
2944 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
2946 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2947 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
2948 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2949 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2951 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2953 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
2954 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2955 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2956 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2957 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2958 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
2959 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
2960 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
2961 7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
2962 text does: www.textware.com
2963 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2964 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2965 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2966 Should work for C++ and Java.
2967 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
2968 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
2969 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2971 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
2972 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2973 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
2974 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2975 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2976 - Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
2977 header files. (Andri Moell)
2978 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2979 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2980 wildcards in the file name)?
2981 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2982 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2983 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2984 be in another file).
2985 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2986 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2987 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2988 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2989 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2990 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2991 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
2992 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2995 Command line editing:
2996 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2998 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2999 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3000 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3001 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3002 lines wraps to start of line).
3003 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3004 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3005 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3006 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3007 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3008 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3009 cmdwin does now already.
3010 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3011 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3012 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3013 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3014 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3015 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3016 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3017 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3019 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3020 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3021 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3022 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3023 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3024 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3025 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3026 character in first column?
3027 - Implementation ideas:
3028 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3029 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3030 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3031 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3032 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3036 Command line completion:
3037 8 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
3038 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
3039 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3040 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
3041 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3042 them with the optional part inside [].
3043 8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3044 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
3045 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3046 edited. (Sven Guckes)
3047 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3048 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3049 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
3050 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
3051 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3052 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
3053 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3054 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3055 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3057 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3058 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
3059 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3060 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3061 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3062 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3063 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3064 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3065 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
3068 Command line history:
3069 9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3070 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3071 other Vim's are not overwritten.
3072 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3073 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3074 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3075 completely resulted from one mapping.
3076 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3077 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3081 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3082 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3083 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
3084 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3085 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3086 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3087 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3088 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
3089 8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3090 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3091 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
3092 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3093 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
3094 - Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
3095 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3096 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3097 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3098 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3099 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3100 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3101 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3102 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3103 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3105 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3106 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3108 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3109 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3110 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3113 'cindent', 'smartindent':
3114 9 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3118 9 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3119 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
3120 8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
3121 8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3124 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3125 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
3126 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
3127 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3134 6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3139 7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
3141 int x) // indent like "(4"
3144 && b) // indent like "(0"
3145 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3152 } <-- this is indented incorrect
3153 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3154 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3156 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
3157 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
3158 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3159 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3161 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3162 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3163 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
3164 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3165 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3166 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3167 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3168 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3169 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3170 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3171 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
3172 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3173 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3174 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3175 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3176 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3177 lines start with "\item".
3178 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3179 /* here is a comment that
3180 is just autoindented, and
3182 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
3183 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3184 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3186 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3187 when the indent remains the same or increases.
3191 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3193 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3194 "[i" commands and friends.
3195 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3197 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3198 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3202 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3203 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3204 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3205 when it's "#" or "//".
3206 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3207 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
3208 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3209 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
3210 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
3211 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3212 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3214 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3215 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3219 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
3220 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
3222 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3226 8 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
3227 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
3228 8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
3229 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
3230 8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3231 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
3232 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3234 8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
3235 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3236 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
3237 8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3238 changing the starting position in oap->start.
3239 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3240 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3241 the end of the line or before a ".".
3242 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3243 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
3244 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3245 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
3246 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
3247 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3248 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3249 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3254 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3255 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
3256 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3257 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
3258 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3259 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3260 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3261 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3263 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3264 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3268 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3269 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3271 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3272 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3274 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
3275 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
3277 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3278 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
3279 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3280 of each selected line.
3281 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
3282 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3283 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3284 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
3285 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3287 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3288 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
3289 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3290 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
3291 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3292 Young is working on this)
3293 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
3294 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
3295 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
3296 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3297 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
3298 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3299 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3301 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3302 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3303 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3304 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3305 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3306 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3307 without changing the column.
3308 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
3309 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3311 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
3312 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3313 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
3314 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
3315 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
3316 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
3317 or other special character.
3318 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3321 More advanced repeating commands:
3322 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
3323 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
3324 the command line so that it can be repeated?
3325 - Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
3326 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
3327 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3328 "y." will repeat last yank.
3329 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3330 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3331 and/or pick an older command.
3332 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3335 Mappings and Abbreviations:
3336 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3337 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3338 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
3339 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
3340 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3341 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
3342 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3343 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
3344 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
3345 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
3346 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3347 entering search strings.
3348 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3349 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3351 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
3352 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3354 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3355 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3356 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
3357 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
3358 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
3359 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
3361 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3362 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
3363 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3364 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3365 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
3366 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3367 abbreviations are to be used.
3368 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3369 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3370 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
3371 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3372 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3373 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3374 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3376 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
3377 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3378 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3379 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3380 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
3381 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3382 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3383 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3384 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3385 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3386 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
3387 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3388 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3389 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3390 hit another character.
3391 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3392 non-replace Insert mode?
3393 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
3394 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3395 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3396 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3397 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
3398 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
3399 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3400 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3401 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3402 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3404 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3408 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3409 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3410 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3412 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3413 folds when going to another line.
3414 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3415 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3416 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3417 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3418 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3419 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3423 8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
3424 "g?" is already used for rot13.
3425 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
3426 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
3427 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
3428 9 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3430 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3431 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3432 Perl does it this way:
3433 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3434 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3435 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3436 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
3437 8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3438 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3440 7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3441 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
3442 8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3443 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
3444 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
3445 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3446 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3447 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
3448 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3450 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
3451 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
3452 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3453 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
3454 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3455 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
3456 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3458 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3460 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3461 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3462 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3463 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3464 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3465 Alternative: use matchit.vim
3466 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
3467 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3468 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3469 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
3470 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3472 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3474 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3475 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
3476 8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3477 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
3478 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3479 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3480 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3482 - Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3484 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3485 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3486 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3487 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3488 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3489 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
3490 8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3491 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
3492 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3493 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
3494 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3495 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3496 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
3497 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3500 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3501 v use Vi regexp syntax
3502 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3503 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3504 Perl uses these too:
3505 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3506 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3507 o compile only once (Perl only)
3508 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3509 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3510 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3512 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3513 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3514 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3516 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3517 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3518 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3519 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3520 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3521 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3522 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3523 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
3524 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
3525 a for the next file in the argument list
3526 f for file in the buffer list
3527 w for file edited in a window.
3528 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3529 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
3530 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3531 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3532 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
3533 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
3534 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
3535 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3536 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3537 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3538 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
3539 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3541 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3542 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3543 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
3544 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
3549 9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3551 8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3552 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3554 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3556 8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3557 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3558 was changed outside of Vim.
3559 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3560 storing the differences.
3561 8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3562 state, so that you can jump to it.
3563 - Persistent undo: store undo in a file.
3564 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
3565 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
3566 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
3567 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
3568 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3569 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
3570 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3571 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3572 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
3573 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3574 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3575 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3576 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
3577 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3578 only remember the lines that really changed.
3579 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3580 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3581 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3582 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
3583 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3584 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3585 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3586 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3587 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3588 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3590 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3591 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
3592 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3593 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
3597 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
3598 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
3599 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
3600 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
3601 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
3602 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
3603 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
3605 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
3606 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
3607 number in use plus one?).
3608 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
3609 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
3610 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
3611 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
3612 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
3613 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
3614 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
3615 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
3616 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
3617 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
3618 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
3619 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
3620 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
3621 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
3622 internal use and for when executing an external program?
3626 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
3627 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
3628 there are short file name problems.
3629 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3630 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
3631 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
3632 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
3633 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
3634 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
3635 file the same as the actual file?
3636 Use the code for resolve()?
3637 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
3638 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
3639 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
3640 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
3641 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
3643 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
3645 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
3646 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
3647 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
3648 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
3649 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
3650 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
3651 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
3652 cached list of which line is where.
3656 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
3657 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
3658 else's viminfo file.
3659 8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
3660 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
3661 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
3662 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
3664 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
3665 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
3666 8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
3667 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
3668 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
3669 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
3671 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
3672 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
3673 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
3674 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
3675 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
3676 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
3677 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
3678 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
3682 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
3683 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
3684 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
3685 - Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
3686 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
3688 - Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
3690 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
3691 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
3693 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
3694 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
3695 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
3697 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
3698 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
3699 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
3700 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
3704 8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
3705 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3706 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
3707 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
3708 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
3709 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
3710 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
3711 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
3713 7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
3715 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
3719 7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
3720 restore it after the command has executed.
3721 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
3722 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
3724 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
3725 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
3727 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
3728 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
3729 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
3730 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
3731 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
3732 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
3736 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
3737 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
3738 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
3739 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
3741 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
3742 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
3743 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
3744 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
3748 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
3749 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
3750 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
3751 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
3752 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
3753 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
3754 7 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
3755 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
3756 7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
3757 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
3758 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
3759 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
3760 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
3761 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
3762 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
3763 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
3764 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
3765 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
3766 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
3767 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
3768 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
3769 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
3773 8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
3774 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
3775 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
3776 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
3777 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
3778 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
3779 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
3780 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
3782 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
3783 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
3784 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
3786 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
3787 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
3788 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
3789 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
3790 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
3791 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
3793 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
3794 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
3795 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
3796 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
3797 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
3799 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
3800 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
3801 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
3805 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
3807 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
3809 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
3811 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
3812 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
3813 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
3817 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
3818 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
3819 shortname conversion.
3820 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
3821 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
3823 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
3824 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
3825 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
3826 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
3827 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
3828 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
3829 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
3830 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
3831 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
3832 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
3833 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
3834 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
3835 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
3836 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3837 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
3838 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3839 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3840 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3841 waiting for a character to be typed).
3842 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3843 line of the window, like "[time]".
3844 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3845 Automatic and/or with a command.
3849 8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
3850 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
3851 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
3852 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3853 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3854 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
3855 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3856 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
3857 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
3858 :s///N substitutes N times.
3859 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3860 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3861 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
3862 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3863 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3865 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3866 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3867 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3872 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
3873 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
3874 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3875 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3876 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
3877 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3878 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3879 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3880 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3881 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3885 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3886 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
3890 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3891 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3892 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
3893 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3897 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
3898 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3900 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3901 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3903 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3904 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3905 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3906 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3907 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3908 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3909 leader when line wraps?
3910 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3912 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3913 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
3914 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3915 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
3919 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
3920 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
3921 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
3922 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
3923 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3924 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3925 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
3926 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
3927 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3930 Various improvements:
3931 8 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
3932 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
3933 7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
3934 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
3935 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
3936 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
3937 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
3938 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
3940 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
3941 7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
3943 7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
3944 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
3945 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3946 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
3947 7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
3948 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
3950 - Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3952 7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3953 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
3954 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3955 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
3956 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
3957 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3958 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3959 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
3960 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
3961 Assign them to a v: variable?
3962 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3963 window as a buffer-tab selection.
3964 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3965 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
3966 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3967 all changes are gone.
3968 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
3969 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3970 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3971 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3973 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
3974 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
3975 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3976 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3977 have it apply to the following command.
3978 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3979 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3980 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3981 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
3982 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3983 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
3984 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3985 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3986 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3987 without modifier (unless mapped).
3988 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
3989 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
3990 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
3991 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
3992 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3993 highlighted differently.
3994 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3995 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3996 (truncated to fit in the space).
3997 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
3998 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
3999 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4001 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
4002 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
4003 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4004 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
4005 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
4006 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
4007 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
4008 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
4009 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4010 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4011 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4012 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
4013 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
4014 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4015 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
4016 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
4017 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
4018 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4019 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4020 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4021 does something like this. (Shah)
4022 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
4023 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4024 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
4025 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
4026 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4027 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
4028 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4029 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4030 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4031 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
4032 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4033 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4034 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4035 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4036 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4037 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4038 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4039 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4040 call "play newbeep.au").
4041 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4042 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4044 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4045 blockwise registers).
4046 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4047 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4048 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4049 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4050 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4052 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
4053 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4054 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4055 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4056 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4057 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4058 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4059 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
4060 8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4061 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
4062 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4063 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4064 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4065 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4066 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4067 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
4068 - Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
4069 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4070 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4071 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4073 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4074 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
4075 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4076 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
4077 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
4079 :redir #>> bufname (append)
4080 - Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4081 redirection was active.
4082 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4083 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4084 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
4085 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4086 console? (Klaus Hast)
4087 - Add :delcr command:
4089 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4090 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4091 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4092 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4093 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4094 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4095 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4096 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4097 characters from 'isprint'.
4098 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4099 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4100 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4101 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4102 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4103 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4104 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4105 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4107 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4108 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
4109 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4110 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4111 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
4112 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4113 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4114 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4116 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
4117 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4118 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4119 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
4120 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4121 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4122 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4123 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4124 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4125 if it is not the first or last window.
4126 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4127 there is one) instead of the file itself.
4128 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4129 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4130 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4131 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4132 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
4133 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
4134 many percent down the windows).
4135 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4136 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4137 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4138 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4139 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4140 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4141 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4142 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4143 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4144 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4145 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
4146 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4147 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4148 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4149 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4150 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
4151 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4153 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
4154 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4155 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
4156 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4158 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
4159 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
4160 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4161 hex codes like 0xff).
4162 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4163 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4164 the last TYPED command.
4165 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4166 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4167 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4169 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
4170 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4171 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4173 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4175 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4176 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4177 find_file_in_path().
4178 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4179 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4180 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4181 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4182 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4183 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
4184 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
4185 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4186 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4187 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
4188 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
4189 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4190 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4191 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4192 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4193 to the minimal size.
4194 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4195 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4196 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4197 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4198 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4199 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4200 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4201 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4202 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4204 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4205 as an output filter.
4206 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
4207 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4208 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4209 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4210 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4211 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4213 - Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
4214 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4215 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4216 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4218 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4219 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
4220 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
4221 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4222 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4223 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4224 insert line command).
4225 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4226 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4227 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4228 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4229 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4230 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
4231 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
4233 - Implement 'redraw' option.
4234 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4235 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
4236 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4237 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
4238 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4240 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4242 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4243 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4244 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4245 - Add text justification option.
4246 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4247 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4249 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4250 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4251 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
4252 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
4253 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
4254 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
4255 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4256 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4258 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4259 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4260 - :table command (Webb)
4261 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
4262 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4263 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4264 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4265 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4266 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4268 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4269 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4270 for use in macro's and the like.
4271 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
4272 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
4273 - Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
4274 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4275 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4277 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
4278 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
4279 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4280 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4281 proportionally (Webb).
4282 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
4283 mkopttab to make option table?
4284 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4285 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4286 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4288 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
4289 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4290 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4292 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4293 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
4294 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4295 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
4296 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4297 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4298 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4299 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4301 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4302 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4304 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4305 space after "(", for example.
4306 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4307 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4312 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4313 - Add ":alias" command.
4314 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4316 \@ match word under cursor.
4318 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4319 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
4320 8 ":window" command:
4321 :win + next window (up)
4322 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4323 :win - previous window (down)
4324 :win -- idem, wrapping
4325 :win nr to window number "nr"
4326 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
4327 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4328 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4332 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4333 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4334 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
4335 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4336 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
4337 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4339 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4341 :Edit fname :split fname
4342 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4343 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4344 :Previous :sprevious
4349 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4350 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4354 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4355 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4356 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4359 Far future and "big" extensions:
4360 - Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4361 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4362 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4363 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4364 would also work on MS-Windows.
4365 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4366 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4367 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4368 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4369 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4370 current layout mirrored.
4371 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4372 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4373 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4374 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4375 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4376 font in each top-level window.
4377 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4378 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4379 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4380 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4381 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4382 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4383 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4384 mentioned in the tags file.
4385 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4386 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4387 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4388 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4389 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4390 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
4391 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4392 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4393 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4394 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
4395 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
4396 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4397 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4398 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4399 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4400 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4402 When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4403 empty line would appear.
4405 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: