1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.2. Last change: 2008 Aug 09
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 ":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
34 first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
36 Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
38 netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
39 number to be below last visible line.
41 Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
43 Patch to add extra argument to glob() and globpath() to ignore 'wildignore'.
44 (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jun 25)
46 Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
47 11) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
48 in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
49 Another valgrind output Jun 30.
51 When reallocating cmdline xp_pattern becomes invalid. Move expand_T xpc into
52 ccline? (Dominique Pelle)
54 Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
55 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
56 Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
58 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
59 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
60 fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
61 the buffer to be unmodified.
62 Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
65 Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
67 Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
68 backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
70 After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
71 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
72 command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
74 ":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
75 Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
77 Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
78 Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
79 Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
80 Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
81 (Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
83 Patch for 2html.vim to avoid "&nbsp;". (Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Jul 19)
85 Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
86 (Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
87 escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
88 an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
89 This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
92 The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
93 Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
94 Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
95 find_special_key() also has this problem.
97 Problem with 'langmap' parsing. (James Vega, 2008 Jan 27)
98 Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
101 Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
102 Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
103 'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
105 Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
106 Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
108 The utf class table is missing some entries:
114 Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
115 line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
117 GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
118 Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
120 Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
121 changed or the window is resized.
123 Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
124 Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
126 Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
127 1) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
129 ":emenu" works with the translated menu name. Should also work with the
130 untranslated name. Would need to store both the English and the translated
131 name. Patch by Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Mar 30.
133 C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
134 with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
135 Try to reproduce at work.
137 Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
138 Await response to question to make the register writable.
140 Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
143 Including NFA regexp code:
144 Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
147 - ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
148 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
150 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
153 Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
154 Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
156 Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
157 Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
160 C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
161 (Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
163 When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
164 and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
166 Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
167 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
169 New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
171 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
174 The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
175 appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
176 matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
178 Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
179 by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
180 Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
181 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
183 Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
184 Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
186 More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
188 Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
189 back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
190 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
192 Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
193 No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
195 With Visual selection, "r" and then CTRL-C Visual mode is stopped but the
196 highlighting is not removed.
198 Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
199 terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
201 Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
203 Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
204 but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
205 that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
207 When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
209 Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
210 popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
211 size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
212 This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
214 When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
215 to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
217 Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
218 superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
220 Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
221 a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
224 Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
225 then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
226 files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
227 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
228 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
229 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
230 in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
231 quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
232 Kelling, 2008 July 4)
234 When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
235 parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
236 neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
237 particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
239 However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
240 the user put quotes around the expanded item?
242 Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
243 switch list is noticed:
250 Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
252 Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
253 with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
254 go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
255 moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
257 Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
258 Sep 18) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 8.
260 Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
263 Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
264 Sutcliffe says it works well.
265 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
267 Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
269 Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
271 ":cscope find f filename" doesn't work because of the extra space. (Ethan
274 Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
275 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
276 New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
277 patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
279 Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
280 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
282 Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
283 Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
284 Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
286 Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
288 Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
290 Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
292 Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
293 label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
295 When 'bomb' is changed the window title is updated to show/hide a "+", but the
296 tab page label isn't. (Patrick Texier, 2008 Jun 24)
298 Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
299 with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
300 Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
302 Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
303 Build another diff.exe somehow?
305 Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
306 pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
308 Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
310 When file b is a link to file a and editing b twice you get the correct
311 warning for existing swap file, but when trying to recover it doesn't find the
312 swapfile. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Aug 5)
314 Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
315 Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
317 Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
318 Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
319 Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
322 Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
325 When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
328 If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
330 F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
331 modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
332 K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
334 Problem finding swap file for recovery. (Gautam Iyer, 2006 May 16)
336 UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
337 to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
339 In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
340 the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
342 C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
344 ":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
346 When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
347 error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
349 Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
350 use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
352 Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
355 Problem with cursorcolumn highlighting and folds. (John Mullin, 2008 Jul 18)
357 Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
358 character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
360 ":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
362 The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
365 Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
366 error. Should only happen when there are wildards, not when giving the file
367 name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
369 Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
370 longer than 2 seconds.
372 Changing 'guifont' in the console causes an unnecessary redraw.
374 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
375 Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
377 VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
378 directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
381 VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
383 input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
386 getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
387 element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
389 Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
391 When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
392 (patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
393 Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
394 will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
396 ":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
397 Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
399 aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
401 Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
402 the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
404 Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
405 Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
406 Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
407 argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
408 (Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
410 GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
412 Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
415 Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
417 When 'ff' is "mac" then "ga" on a ^J shows 0x0d instead of 0x0a. Compare with
418 using "ga" on a NUL when 'ff' is "unix". (Andy Wokula, 2008 Jul 16)
420 Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
421 moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
422 that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
424 The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
426 In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
427 but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
430 Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
433 When showing a diff between a non-existant file and an existing one, with the
434 cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
435 the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
437 Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
440 Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
441 shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
442 fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
443 background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
444 A.Politz may work on this.
446 The spellfile plugin checks for a writable "spell" directory. A user may have
447 a writable runtime directory without a "spell" directory, it could be created
450 These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
451 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
452 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
455 Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
458 In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
459 buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
462 New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
465 For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
467 Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
468 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
470 Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
471 tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
472 doesn't contain other directories.
475 - Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
476 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
478 - Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
480 Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
481 start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
482 show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
485 When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
486 (using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
487 connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
488 dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
490 Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
492 When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
493 Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
495 Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
496 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
497 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
498 - getting colors in xterm
499 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
501 Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
502 Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
504 Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
506 A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
509 Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
512 GTK: When maximizing Vim the result is slightly smaller, the filler border is
513 not there, and the "maximize" button is still there. Clicking it again does
514 give a maximized window. (Darren Hiebert)
515 Problem is that gui_mch_set_text_area_pos() is invoked to change the text area
516 size, which causes the toplevel window to resize. When doing this while the
517 size is already right the filler remains there.
518 Detect using the maximize button (GdkWindowState bit
519 GDK_WINDOW_STATE_MAXIMIZED) and set it again?
521 Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
522 number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
524 GTK: when using the -geom argument with an offset from the right edge and the
525 size is smaller than the default, the Vim window is not positioned properly.
527 After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
528 the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
530 Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
531 Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
534 There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
536 Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
537 copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
538 error and stop using the connection to the server.
540 Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
541 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
543 In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
544 check the result of has("patch13").
546 Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
547 put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
549 Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
550 to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
552 GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
553 maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
554 doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
556 The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
559 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
560 script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
562 It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
563 the function name before resolving it to a number?
570 Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
571 only set after Visual moded is ended.
572 Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
573 used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
575 Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
576 output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
577 Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
579 Win32, NTFS: When editing an specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
580 "auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
581 name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
582 Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
584 Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
585 (David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
587 Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
588 as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
590 Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
593 Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
596 ":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
597 tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
600 xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
601 buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
602 Xterm 224 supports it!
604 When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
605 text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
606 latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
608 Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
610 Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
611 no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
613 Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
614 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
615 somehow? Or use a new function.
617 In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
618 VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
621 When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
622 disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
624 TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
625 Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
627 Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
629 Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
633 - Add patch for 'relativenumber' option? Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Jun 27.
634 - Add blowfish encryption. Openssl has an implementation. Also by Paul
635 Kocher (LGPL), close to original. Mohsin also has some ideas.
636 Take four bytes and turn them into unsigned to avoid byte-order problems.
637 Need to buffer up to 7 bytes to align on 8 byte boundaries.
638 - ":{range}source": source the lines from the file.
639 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
640 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
641 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
645 - Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
646 - Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
648 - Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
650 - Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
652 - 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
653 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
654 - Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
655 - Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
656 - ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
657 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
659 - gettabvar() and settabvar() functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2007 Sep 13,
661 - recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
662 - Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
663 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
664 - Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
665 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
666 - Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
668 - Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
669 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
670 - When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
671 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
674 Awaiting updated patches:
675 9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
676 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
677 New patch 2004 Jun 16
678 - selecting proportional font breaks display
679 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
680 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
681 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
683 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
684 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
686 9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
687 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
688 8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
689 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
690 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
691 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
693 How does this work? Missing comments.
694 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
695 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
696 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
697 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
698 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
699 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
700 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
701 for multi-byte characters.
702 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
703 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
704 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
706 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
707 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
708 with an ESC sequence.
709 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
711 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
712 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
713 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
714 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
715 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
716 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
718 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
720 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
721 Search in 'runtimepath'?
722 More docs needed about how to use this.
723 How to get the messages into the .po files?
724 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
726 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
727 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
728 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
730 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
731 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
732 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
733 useful for interactive things or completion.
734 col('^') column of first non-white character.
735 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
736 + 1", but that's ugly.
737 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
738 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
739 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
740 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
741 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
742 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
743 8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
744 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
745 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
746 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
747 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
748 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
749 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
750 Kotchan has a patch for it)
751 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
752 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
753 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
754 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
755 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
756 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
757 incomplete patch Mar 18)
758 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
759 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
760 - Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
764 - Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
765 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
766 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
767 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
768 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
769 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
770 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
771 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
772 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
774 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
775 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
776 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
777 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
778 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
779 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
780 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
781 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
782 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
783 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
784 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
785 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
786 names in one buffer???
787 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
788 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
789 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
790 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
791 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
792 command was one command.
793 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
794 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
795 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
796 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
797 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
798 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
799 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
800 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
801 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
802 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
803 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
804 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
805 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
806 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
807 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
808 to the match with the tag? Option?
809 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
810 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
812 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
813 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
814 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
815 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
816 match. Nvi can do it too.
817 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
818 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
822 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
823 the way the shell is started?
824 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
825 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
828 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
829 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
830 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
831 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
832 the minimal window width?
833 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
834 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
835 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
836 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
839 9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
840 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
841 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
843 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
844 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
845 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
846 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
847 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
848 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
849 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
850 - Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
851 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
855 Win32 GUI known bugs:
856 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
858 8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
860 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
861 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
862 8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
863 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
864 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
865 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
866 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
867 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
868 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
869 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
870 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
871 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
872 "lucida_console:h8").
873 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
874 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
875 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
876 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
878 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
879 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
880 to use an opaque background in most places?
881 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
882 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
883 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
884 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
885 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
886 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
887 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
889 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
890 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
891 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
893 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
894 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
895 file: Window moves with the cursor!
896 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
897 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
898 appear. (Sami Salonen)
899 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
900 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
901 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
902 doesn't work properly.
903 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
904 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
905 appears in the right position. (Webb)
906 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
907 button doesn't give popup menu.
908 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
910 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
911 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
912 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
913 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
914 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
915 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
916 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
917 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
918 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
920 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
921 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
922 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
923 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
924 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
926 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
927 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
928 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
929 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
930 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
931 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
932 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
933 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
934 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
935 know which keyboard is being used?
936 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
937 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
939 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
940 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
941 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
946 6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
947 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
948 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
949 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
950 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
951 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
952 required and it's missing?
953 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
955 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
957 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
958 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
960 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
961 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
962 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
963 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
964 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
965 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
966 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
967 the tooltips work though...
968 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
969 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
970 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
971 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
972 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
976 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
977 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
979 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
980 read long file names. (Schroeder)
981 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
982 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
983 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
984 problem during a refresh.
985 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
986 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
987 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
988 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
990 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
991 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
995 - gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
996 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
997 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
998 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
999 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1004 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1005 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
1006 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
1007 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
1008 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
1009 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1010 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
1011 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1012 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
1013 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1014 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1015 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
1016 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1017 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1018 of where it is processing the output.
1019 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
1020 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1022 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
1023 8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1024 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1026 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
1027 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1029 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1030 use that code? Or use console dialog.
1031 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1032 error message disappears too quick.
1033 7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1035 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1036 when all buffers/directory is used:
1037 - filter for file name
1038 when directory is used:
1039 - subdirectory on/off
1040 - top directory browser
1041 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1043 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1044 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1045 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
1046 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1047 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1048 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
1049 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1050 up. Set erase character somehow?
1051 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1052 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1053 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1054 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
1055 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
1056 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1058 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1059 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
1060 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1061 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
1062 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1063 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
1064 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1065 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1066 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1067 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1068 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
1069 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1070 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1071 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1075 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1076 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1077 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
1078 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1079 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
1080 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
1081 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1083 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1084 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1085 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1086 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
1087 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1088 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1089 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1090 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1091 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1092 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1093 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1094 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1095 key code. Use a translation table?
1096 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1097 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
1099 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1100 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
1101 8 setlocale() is bogus.
1102 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1103 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1105 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
1106 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
1107 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
1108 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1109 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1110 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
1111 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1112 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
1113 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1114 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1115 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1117 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1119 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
1120 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1124 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
1125 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1126 gen_expand_wildcards().
1127 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1129 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
1130 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1131 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
1132 8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1133 a good fallback, thus use:
1136 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1138 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1142 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1143 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
1144 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1145 Should work like in the GUI version.
1146 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1147 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
1148 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1149 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
1150 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1151 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1152 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
1153 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1154 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1155 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1159 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
1160 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1161 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
1162 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1163 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1167 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1168 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1169 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1170 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1171 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1172 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1173 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1174 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1175 and the file is not saved.
1176 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1178 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1179 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
1180 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1181 besides the console.
1182 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
1183 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1185 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1186 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
1187 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1188 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
1189 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1190 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1195 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1197 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1198 backslashes in result.
1199 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1200 all options, using white space separation.
1204 - GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1205 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1206 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1207 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
1208 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1209 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1211 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
1212 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1213 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
1214 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
1215 8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1217 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1218 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
1219 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
1220 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
1221 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
1222 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
1223 8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
1224 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
1225 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1226 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
1227 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1228 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
1229 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1230 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
1231 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
1232 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
1233 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1237 - Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1238 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
1239 - When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1240 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
1241 9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1242 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
1243 9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
1244 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1245 file isn't readonly, etc.
1246 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1247 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1248 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
1249 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
1250 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1251 error number, it's not a regular error message.
1252 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1253 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1254 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1255 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1257 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1259 - Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1260 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
1261 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1262 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1263 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1264 using the horizontal scrollbar.
1265 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1266 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1267 invocations belong together.
1268 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1269 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
1270 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1271 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1272 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1273 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1274 Briscoe says it's not as good.
1275 8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1276 8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1277 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1278 an allocated structure?
1279 6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
1280 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1281 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
1282 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1283 use "~/" when possible.
1284 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1285 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1286 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1287 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
1288 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1290 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1291 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1292 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
1293 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1294 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1295 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
1296 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1297 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
1298 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1300 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1301 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1302 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1303 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1304 script can be called.
1305 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1306 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1308 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1310 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1311 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1312 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1313 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1314 won't work for GTK anyway.
1315 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1316 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
1317 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
1318 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1320 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
1321 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1322 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1323 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
1324 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1325 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
1326 8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1327 is a multi-byte character.
1328 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1329 always written, even when the original file already exists.
1330 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1331 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
1332 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1333 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1335 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
1336 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1337 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1338 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
1339 8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1340 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
1341 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1342 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
1343 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1344 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
1345 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1346 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1347 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
1348 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
1349 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1350 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
1351 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1352 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1353 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1354 direction, not horizontally?
1356 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1357 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1358 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1359 dithering to make grey text?
1360 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1361 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
1362 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
1363 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1364 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1365 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1366 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1367 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1368 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
1369 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1370 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
1371 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1372 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1373 that Windows NT is being used?
1374 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1375 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
1376 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1377 in lines that don't extend into the block?
1378 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1379 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1380 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
1381 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1383 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1384 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1386 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
1387 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
1388 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1389 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1390 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1391 'magic' in history. (Margo)
1392 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1393 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
1394 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1396 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
1397 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1398 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1399 cause another redraw, etc.
1400 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1401 must escape special characters in the pattern.
1402 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1403 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1405 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1406 restore file to readonly afterwards.
1407 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
1408 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1409 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1410 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1411 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1413 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1414 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1416 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1417 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1418 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
1419 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1420 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1421 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
1422 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1423 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
1424 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1425 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1426 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
1427 8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
1428 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1430 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1431 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
1432 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1434 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1435 script in do_cmdline().
1436 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1437 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1438 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1440 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1441 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
1442 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1443 check for file marks. This can be slow.
1444 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1445 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1447 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
1448 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1449 to skip catch_signals()?
1450 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1451 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1452 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1454 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1455 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
1456 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1457 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
1458 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1459 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1460 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1461 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1462 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
1463 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1464 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1465 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1467 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1468 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1469 instead of on button down.
1470 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
1471 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1472 reaching the end of the available buffer.
1473 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1475 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1477 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1478 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
1479 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1480 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
1481 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1482 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1483 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1484 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1486 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1487 Remember flags for backreferences.
1488 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1489 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
1490 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1491 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
1492 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1493 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
1494 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1495 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
1496 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1497 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1498 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
1499 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1500 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
1501 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1502 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1503 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
1504 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1505 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
1508 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
1509 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1510 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1511 files. (McCollister)
1514 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
1515 - GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
1516 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
1517 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
1518 - GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
1519 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
1520 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
1521 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
1522 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
1523 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
1525 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1526 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
1527 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
1528 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1529 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1530 worked around with a delay.
1531 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1532 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1533 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1534 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1535 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1536 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1537 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1538 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1539 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1540 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1541 - Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
1542 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1543 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1544 character gets the highlighting.
1545 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1546 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1547 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1549 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1550 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1551 errors. How do we get the rest?
1552 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1553 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1554 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1555 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1556 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1558 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1559 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1560 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1561 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1562 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1563 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1564 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1565 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1567 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1568 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1569 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1570 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1571 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1572 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1573 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1574 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1575 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1576 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1577 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1578 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1579 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1580 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1581 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1582 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1583 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1584 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1585 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1586 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1587 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1588 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1589 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1590 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1591 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1592 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1593 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1594 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1595 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1596 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1597 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1598 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1599 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1600 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1601 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1602 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1603 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1604 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
1605 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1606 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
1607 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1608 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1609 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1610 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1611 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1612 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1613 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1615 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1616 *extensions-improvements*
1618 Didn't make it into Vim 7.0:
1619 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
1620 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
1621 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
1622 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
1623 http://clewn.sf.net.
1624 And the idevim plugin/script.
1625 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
1626 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
1627 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
1629 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
1630 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1631 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
1633 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
1634 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
1635 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
1636 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
1637 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
1638 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
1639 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
1640 - STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
1641 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
1642 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
1643 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
1644 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
1645 http://vimshell.wana.at
1646 - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
1647 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1648 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
1649 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
1650 taglist() can be used.
1651 - X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
1652 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
1656 8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
1658 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1659 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
1660 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1662 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
1663 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
1664 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1665 - change to cursor position and curswant
1666 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1667 - how it works for folded lines
1668 - how it works with multi-byte characters
1669 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1671 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1672 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1674 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
1675 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1676 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
1677 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1678 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1679 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
1680 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1684 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1685 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1686 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1687 to the other matches.
1688 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1689 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1690 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1691 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1692 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1694 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1695 height for the help window (and other windows).
1696 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1697 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1698 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1702 8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1703 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1704 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1705 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1707 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
1708 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1709 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1710 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
1711 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1712 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1713 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1715 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1716 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1720 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1722 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
1723 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1724 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1726 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
1727 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
1728 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1729 7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
1730 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
1731 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
1732 8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
1733 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
1734 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
1735 global_event_filter() for GTK.
1739 9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
1740 7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
1742 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
1744 8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
1745 8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
1746 8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
1747 8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
1748 7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
1749 7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
1750 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
1751 7 Add local variables for each tab page?
1752 8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
1754 7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
1755 7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
1756 window-local directories?
1760 - have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
1761 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
1762 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
1763 languages in the file.
1764 - Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
1765 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
1766 - Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
1767 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
1768 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
1769 - Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
1771 - The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
1772 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
1773 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
1774 - Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
1775 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
1776 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
1777 - Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
1778 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
1779 - There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffic Voikko is now
1780 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
1782 8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
1783 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
1784 8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
1785 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
1786 8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
1787 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
1788 items and check if the result is a valid word.
1789 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
1790 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
1791 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
1792 How is it supposed to work?
1793 8 implement using CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN: match words with sl_comppat[].
1794 - Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
1795 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
1796 - suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
1797 - For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
1798 the word are not used.
1799 - Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
1800 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
1801 - Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
1802 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
1803 - NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
1804 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
1805 - Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
1806 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
1807 - New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
1808 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
1809 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
1810 in the affix file separately.
1811 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
1812 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
1813 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
1814 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
1815 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
1816 8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to
1817 obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen)
1818 - CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
1819 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
1820 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
1821 specific prefixes with suffixes.
1823 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
1824 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
1825 affix which is required.
1826 - When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
1828 - Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
1829 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
1830 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
1831 - MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
1832 word/flags and affix.
1833 - Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
1834 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
1835 - Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
1836 8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
1837 syntax items (to add @Spell).
1838 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
1839 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
1840 - References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
1841 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
1842 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
1843 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
1844 8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
1845 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
1846 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
1847 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
1848 use of words with a dash.
1849 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
1850 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
1851 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
1852 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
1853 in English, strings in German (po file).
1857 9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
1858 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
1859 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1860 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1861 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
1862 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
1863 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
1864 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1865 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1870 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
1871 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
1872 8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
1873 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
1874 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
1875 9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
1876 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
1877 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1879 7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1880 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1881 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1883 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1884 commands skip over a closed fold.
1885 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
1886 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
1887 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
1888 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1889 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1890 missing line goes unnoticed.
1891 How to implement this?
1892 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1893 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1895 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1896 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1897 - When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
1899 args version.c main.c
1901 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
1902 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1903 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
1904 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
1905 - "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
1907 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1909 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
1911 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
1912 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
1916 Multi-byte characters:
1917 - When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
1918 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
1919 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
1920 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
1921 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1922 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1923 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1925 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1926 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1927 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1928 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1929 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1931 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
1932 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
1933 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
1934 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1935 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
1936 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
1937 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
1938 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1939 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
1940 8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
1941 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
1942 different fileencoding for filter output?
1943 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1944 so that the user can fix the problem.
1945 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1947 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
1948 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
1949 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
1950 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
1951 7 Searching and composing characters:
1952 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
1953 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
1954 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
1955 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
1956 characters can be manipulated.
1957 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
1958 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
1959 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
1960 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
1961 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1963 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
1964 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1965 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
1966 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1967 'display' option to specify this.
1968 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1969 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1970 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1971 fontselector somehow.
1972 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1973 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1974 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1975 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1976 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1977 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1978 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1979 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1981 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
1982 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
1983 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1984 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
1985 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1986 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1987 - Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1988 Patch from Konstantin Korikov, 2006 Oct 15.
1989 - Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
1990 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
1991 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
1992 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
1993 - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1994 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1995 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1996 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1997 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1998 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1999 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2000 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2001 But it's very complicated...
2005 7 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
2006 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2007 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2008 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
2009 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2011 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2012 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2013 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
2014 - PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2015 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
2016 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2017 units as for the margins.
2018 - Support right-to-left text?
2019 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2023 Syntax highlighting:
2024 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2025 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
2026 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2027 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
2028 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2029 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
2030 7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2031 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
2032 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2033 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2035 7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2036 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2037 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
2038 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
2039 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2040 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
2041 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2042 Search highlighting.
2043 7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2044 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
2045 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2046 change this for each release.
2047 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2048 pattern, but not in the body.
2049 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2050 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2051 instead of the containing item.
2052 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
2053 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2054 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2055 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2056 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
2057 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2058 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
2059 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2060 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
2061 Option for the matchparen plugin?
2062 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2063 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2064 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2066 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2067 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
2068 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2069 re-insert the [] if possible.
2070 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2072 8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2073 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2074 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2075 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2076 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
2077 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2078 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
2079 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
2080 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2081 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2082 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
2083 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2084 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2086 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2087 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2088 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
2089 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2091 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
2092 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
2093 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2094 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
2095 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
2096 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
2097 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2100 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2102 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
2103 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2104 current line while in Insert mode.
2105 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2106 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
2107 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2109 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2110 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2111 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
2112 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2113 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2114 highlighting starts.
2115 8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2116 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2118 7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2119 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2120 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2121 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2123 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2124 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2126 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
2127 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2128 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2129 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
2130 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
2131 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2133 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
2134 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
2135 8 Add more command line completion for :sign.
2136 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2137 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2139 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2140 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
2141 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2142 select one of the sets.
2143 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2144 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2146 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2147 highlighting (for "." command).
2148 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2149 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
2150 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
2151 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2152 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
2153 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2154 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2155 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2156 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2157 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
2158 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2159 (for comment blocks).
2160 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2161 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2162 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2163 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2164 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2165 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2166 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2167 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2169 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2170 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
2171 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2172 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
2173 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2174 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2175 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
2176 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2177 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2178 messages. And external commands?
2179 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2180 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
2181 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2182 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2185 Built-in script language:
2186 8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2187 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
2188 7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2189 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2190 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
2191 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2192 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
2193 - Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2195 - range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
2196 7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2197 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
2198 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
2199 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2200 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2201 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2202 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2204 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2205 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2206 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
2207 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2208 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2209 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2210 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2212 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2213 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2214 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2215 file belongs to a sourced script?
2216 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2217 signs and/or 'number'.
2218 6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2221 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2222 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2223 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2224 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2225 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2226 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2227 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
2228 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2229 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2231 Only add this when also implemented for
2232 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2234 get_user_name() gets login name.
2235 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2236 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2237 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2238 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2239 File.Open..." argument.
2240 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2241 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2242 with properties instead.
2243 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2244 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2245 Return a list instead.
2246 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
2247 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
2248 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
2249 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
2250 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
2251 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
2252 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2253 find out what happened)
2254 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2256 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
2257 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2258 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
2259 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2260 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2261 to allow the library to execute a command or
2262 evaluate an expression.
2263 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2264 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
2265 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2266 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
2267 8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2268 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
2269 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
2270 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2271 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
2272 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
2273 8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2275 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2276 option or environment variable.
2277 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
2278 8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
2279 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2280 available as a List.
2281 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2282 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
2283 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
2284 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2285 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2286 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2288 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2289 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2291 result = scratch(string, command)
2292 result = apply(string, command)
2293 result = execute(string, command)
2294 "command" would use <> notation.
2295 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
2296 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
2297 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2298 option for the search path. (Sekera)
2302 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2303 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2304 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2305 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2306 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2307 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2308 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
2312 7 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2313 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
2314 8 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2315 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2316 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2317 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
2318 8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2319 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2320 repeating it in various system files.
2321 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
2322 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
2323 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
2324 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2325 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
2326 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2327 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2328 when starting up in a color terminal.
2329 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2331 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
2333 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2334 function be improved?
2335 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2336 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2337 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2339 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2340 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
2341 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2342 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
2343 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2344 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
2345 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2346 lot of abbreviations).
2347 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
2348 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2349 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2350 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2351 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2352 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2353 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2354 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
2355 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2356 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2357 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2358 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
2359 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2360 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2361 using strcmp() too often?
2362 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2363 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2364 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2365 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2366 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2367 the two blocks to the memfile block.
2368 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2369 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2370 with an argument that can be messed with.
2371 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2372 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
2373 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2374 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
2375 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2376 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2377 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2378 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2379 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2383 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2384 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2385 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2386 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2387 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2388 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
2389 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
2390 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2391 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2393 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2394 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2395 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2396 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2397 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2398 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2399 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2400 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2401 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2402 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2403 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2404 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2405 cursor is right of the screen.
2406 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2411 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2412 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2413 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
2414 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
2415 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2417 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2419 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2421 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2425 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2426 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
2427 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2428 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
2429 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2431 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2432 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2433 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
2434 8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2436 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2437 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2438 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2439 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2441 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2442 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
2443 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2444 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2445 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2446 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2447 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2448 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
2449 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
2450 Sleep before second message?
2451 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2452 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2453 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2454 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2455 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2456 error messages, printing text, etc.
2457 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2458 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2459 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2463 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2464 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2465 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2467 - insert/delete character stuff.
2468 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2469 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2470 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2471 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2472 waiting for a character.
2473 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2474 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2475 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
2476 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
2480 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
2481 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2482 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2483 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2485 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2486 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2487 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2488 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2489 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2491 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2493 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2494 be bound by regexp searches
2495 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
2496 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2497 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2498 of lines but not with a single line).
2502 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
2503 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2504 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2505 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2506 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2507 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2508 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2509 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2513 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
2514 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
2515 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
2516 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2520 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2521 :libload internal-name libname
2522 :libunload internal-name
2524 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2525 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2526 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
2527 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2531 9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
2532 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
2533 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
2534 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
2535 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
2536 8 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
2537 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
2538 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
2539 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originall (Erik Falor, 2008
2540 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
2541 8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2542 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2544 7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
2545 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
2547 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
2548 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
2549 to type the tag number directly.
2550 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
2551 window for each tag.
2552 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
2553 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
2554 bottom" search message.
2555 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
2556 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
2557 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
2558 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
2559 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
2560 - Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
2561 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
2562 what you were working on.
2563 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
2564 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
2565 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
2566 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
2567 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
2568 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
2570 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
2572 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
2573 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
2574 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
2575 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
2576 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
2577 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
2578 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
2579 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
2580 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
2584 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
2585 the message and input?
2586 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
2587 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
2589 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
2591 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
2592 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
2593 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
2594 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
2595 common part of the path.
2596 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
2597 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
2598 gettext and menus work.
2599 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
2600 return in every console.
2601 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
2602 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
2603 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
2604 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
2605 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
2606 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
2607 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
2608 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
2609 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
2610 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
2611 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
2612 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
2613 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
2615 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
2616 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
2617 the file added into an already running Vim.
2618 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
2619 functions to find the window title.
2623 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
2624 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
2625 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
2626 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
2627 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
2628 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
2629 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
2630 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
2631 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
2632 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
2633 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
2634 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
2635 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
2636 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
2637 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
2638 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2639 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
2640 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2641 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2642 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2643 running them in separate processes.
2644 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
2645 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2646 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
2647 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
2648 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
2649 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
2650 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
2651 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
2653 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
2654 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
2655 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2656 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2657 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
2658 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2659 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2660 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
2661 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2662 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
2663 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2664 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2665 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2666 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
2667 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2668 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
2669 7 Should support multi-column menus.
2670 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2671 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2672 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
2673 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
2674 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2675 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
2676 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
2677 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2678 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2679 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
2680 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
2681 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2682 name can be chosen free.
2683 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2684 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
2685 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2686 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2687 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2688 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2689 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2690 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2692 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2693 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
2694 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
2695 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
2696 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2697 where it was started from?
2698 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2702 - Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
2703 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2704 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2705 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2706 changing the buffer name.
2707 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2708 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
2709 7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
2710 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2711 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
2712 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2713 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2715 8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
2716 after typing something.
2717 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
2718 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
2719 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
2720 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2721 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2722 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
2723 7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
2725 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2726 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
2727 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
2728 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2729 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
2730 7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
2731 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2732 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2733 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2734 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
2735 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2736 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2737 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
2738 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2739 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2741 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2742 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2743 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
2744 - Add events to autocommands:
2745 Error - When an error happens
2746 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2747 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2748 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
2750 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
2751 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
2752 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2753 when exiting isn't a good idea.
2754 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
2755 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
2756 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
2757 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2758 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2759 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2761 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2762 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2763 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2764 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2765 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2766 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2767 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2768 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2770 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2771 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2773 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2774 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2775 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2776 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2777 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2778 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2779 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
2781 WinResized - After a window has been resized
2782 WinClose - Just before closing a window
2783 - Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
2784 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2785 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2786 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2787 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2788 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2789 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2790 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2794 - Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
2795 mix it with other kinds of completion).
2796 - Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
2797 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
2798 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
2799 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
2800 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
2801 - Ideas from others:
2802 http://www.wholetomato.com/
2803 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
2804 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
2805 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
2806 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
2807 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
2808 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
2809 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
2811 Uses ctags to find the info:
2812 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
2813 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
2814 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
2815 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
2816 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
2817 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
2818 Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
2819 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
2820 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
2823 Insert mode completion/expansion:
2824 - GUI implementation of the popup menu.
2825 7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
2826 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
2827 7 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
2828 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
2830 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2831 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
2832 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2833 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2835 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2837 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
2838 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2839 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2840 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2841 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2842 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
2843 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
2844 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
2845 7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
2846 text does: www.textware.com
2847 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2848 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2849 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2850 Should work for C++ and Java.
2851 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
2852 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
2853 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2855 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
2856 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2857 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
2858 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2859 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2860 - Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
2861 header files. (Andri Moell)
2862 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2863 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2864 wildcards in the file name)?
2865 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2866 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2867 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2868 be in another file).
2869 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2870 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2871 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2872 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2873 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2874 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2875 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
2876 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2879 Command line editing:
2880 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2882 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2883 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2884 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2885 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2886 lines wraps to start of line).
2887 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2888 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2889 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2890 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2891 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2892 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2893 cmdwin does now already.
2894 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2895 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2896 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2897 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2898 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2899 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2900 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2901 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2903 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2904 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2905 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2906 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2907 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2908 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2909 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2910 character in first column?
2911 - Implementation ideas:
2912 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2913 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2914 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2915 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2916 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2920 Command line completion:
2921 8 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
2922 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
2923 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2924 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
2925 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2926 them with the optional part inside [].
2927 8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
2928 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
2929 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2930 edited. (Sven Guckes)
2931 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2932 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2933 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
2934 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
2935 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2936 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
2937 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2938 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2939 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2941 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2942 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
2943 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2944 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2945 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2946 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2947 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2948 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2949 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
2952 Command line history:
2953 9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
2954 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
2955 other Vim's are not overwritten.
2956 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2957 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2958 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2959 completely resulted from one mapping.
2960 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2961 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2965 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2966 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2967 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
2968 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2969 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2970 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2971 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2972 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
2973 8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
2974 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
2975 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
2976 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2977 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
2978 - Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
2979 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2980 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2981 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2982 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2983 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2984 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2985 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2986 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2987 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2989 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2990 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2992 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2993 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2994 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2997 'cindent', 'smartindent':
2998 9 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3002 8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
3003 8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3006 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3007 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
3008 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
3009 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3016 6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3021 7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
3023 int x) // indent like "(4"
3026 && b) // indent like "(0"
3027 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3034 } <-- this is indented incorrect
3035 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3036 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3038 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
3039 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
3040 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3041 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3043 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3044 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3045 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
3046 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3047 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3048 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3049 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3050 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3051 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3052 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3053 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
3054 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3055 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3056 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3057 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3058 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3059 lines start with "\item".
3060 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3061 /* here is a comment that
3062 is just autoindented, and
3064 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
3065 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3066 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3068 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3069 when the indent remains the same or increases.
3073 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3075 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3076 "[i" commands and friends.
3077 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3079 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3080 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3084 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3085 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3086 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3087 when it's "#" or "//".
3088 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3089 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
3090 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3091 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
3092 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
3093 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3094 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3096 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3097 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3101 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
3102 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
3104 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3108 8 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
3109 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
3110 8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
3111 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
3112 8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3113 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
3114 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3116 8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
3117 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3118 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
3119 8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3120 changing the starting position in oap->start.
3121 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3122 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3123 the end of the line or before a ".".
3124 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3125 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
3126 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3127 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
3128 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
3129 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3130 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3131 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3136 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3137 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
3138 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3139 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
3140 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3141 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3142 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3143 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3145 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3146 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3150 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3151 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3153 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3154 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3156 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
3157 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
3159 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3160 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
3161 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3162 of each selected line.
3163 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
3164 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3165 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3166 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
3167 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3169 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3170 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
3171 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3172 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
3173 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3174 Young is working on this)
3175 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
3176 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
3177 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
3178 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3179 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
3180 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3181 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3183 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3184 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3185 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3186 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3187 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3188 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3189 without changing the column.
3190 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
3191 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3193 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
3194 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3195 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
3196 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
3197 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
3198 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
3199 or other special character.
3200 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3203 More advanced repeating commands:
3204 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
3205 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
3206 the command line so that it can be repeated?
3207 - Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
3208 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
3209 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3210 "y." will repeat last yank.
3211 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3212 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3213 and/or pick an older command.
3214 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3217 Mappings and Abbreviations:
3218 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3219 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3220 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
3221 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
3222 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3223 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
3224 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3225 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
3226 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
3227 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
3228 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3229 entering search strings.
3230 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3231 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3233 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
3234 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3236 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3237 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3238 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
3239 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
3240 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
3241 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
3243 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3244 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
3245 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3246 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3247 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
3248 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3249 abbreviations are to be used.
3250 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3251 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3252 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
3253 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3254 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3255 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3256 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3258 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
3259 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3260 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3261 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3262 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
3263 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3264 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3265 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3266 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3267 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3268 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
3269 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3270 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3271 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3272 hit another character.
3273 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3274 non-replace Insert mode?
3275 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
3276 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3277 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3278 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3279 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
3280 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
3281 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3282 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3283 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3284 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3286 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3290 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3291 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3292 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3294 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3295 folds when going to another line.
3296 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3297 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3298 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3299 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3300 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3301 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3305 8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
3306 "g?" is already used for rot13.
3307 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
3308 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
3309 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
3310 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3311 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3312 Perl does it this way:
3313 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3314 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3315 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3316 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
3317 8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3318 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3320 7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3321 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
3322 8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3323 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
3324 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
3325 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3326 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3327 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
3328 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3330 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
3331 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
3332 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3333 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
3334 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3335 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
3336 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3338 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3340 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3341 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3342 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3343 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3344 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3345 Alternative: use matchit.vim
3346 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
3347 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3348 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3349 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
3350 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3352 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3354 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3355 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
3356 8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3357 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
3358 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3359 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3360 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3362 - Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3364 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3365 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3366 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3367 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3368 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3369 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
3370 8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3371 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
3372 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3373 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
3374 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3375 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3376 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
3377 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3380 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3381 v use Vi regexp syntax
3382 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3383 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3384 Perl uses these too:
3385 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3386 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3387 o compile only once (Perl only)
3388 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3389 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3390 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3392 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3393 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3394 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3396 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3397 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3398 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3399 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3400 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3401 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3402 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3403 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
3404 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
3405 a for the next file in the argument list
3406 f for file in the buffer list
3407 w for file edited in a window.
3408 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3409 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
3410 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3411 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3412 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
3413 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
3414 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
3415 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3416 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3417 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3418 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
3419 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3421 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3422 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3423 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
3424 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
3429 9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3431 8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3432 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3434 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3436 8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3437 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3438 was changed outside of Vim.
3439 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3440 storing the differences.
3441 8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3442 state, so that you can jump to it.
3443 - Persistent undo: store undo in a file.
3444 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
3445 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
3446 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
3447 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
3448 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3449 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
3450 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3451 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3452 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
3453 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3454 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3455 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3456 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
3457 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3458 only remember the lines that really changed.
3459 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3460 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3461 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3462 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
3463 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3464 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3465 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3466 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3467 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3468 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3470 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3471 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
3472 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3473 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
3477 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
3478 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
3479 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
3480 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
3481 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
3482 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
3483 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
3485 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
3486 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
3487 number in use plus one?).
3488 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
3489 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
3490 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
3491 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
3492 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
3493 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
3494 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
3495 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
3496 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
3497 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
3498 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
3499 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
3500 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
3501 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
3502 internal use and for when executing an external program?
3506 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
3507 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
3508 there are short file name problems.
3509 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3510 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
3511 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
3512 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
3513 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
3514 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
3515 file the same as the actual file?
3516 Use the code for resolve()?
3517 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
3518 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
3519 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
3520 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
3521 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
3523 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
3525 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
3526 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
3527 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
3528 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
3529 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
3530 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
3531 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
3532 cached list of which line is where.
3536 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
3537 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
3538 else's viminfo file.
3539 8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
3540 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
3541 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
3542 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
3544 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
3545 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
3546 8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
3547 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
3548 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
3549 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
3551 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
3552 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
3553 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
3554 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
3555 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
3556 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
3557 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
3558 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
3562 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
3563 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
3564 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
3565 - Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
3566 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
3568 - Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
3570 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
3571 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
3573 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
3574 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
3575 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
3577 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
3578 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
3579 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
3580 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
3584 8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
3585 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3586 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
3587 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
3588 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
3589 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
3590 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
3591 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
3593 7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
3595 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
3599 7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
3600 restore it after the command has executed.
3601 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
3602 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
3604 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
3605 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
3607 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
3608 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
3609 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
3610 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
3611 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
3612 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
3616 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
3617 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
3618 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
3619 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
3621 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
3622 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
3623 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
3624 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
3628 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
3629 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
3630 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
3631 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
3632 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
3633 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
3634 7 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
3635 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
3636 7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
3637 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
3638 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
3639 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
3640 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
3641 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
3642 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
3643 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
3644 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
3645 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
3646 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
3647 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
3648 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
3649 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
3653 8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
3654 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
3655 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
3656 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
3657 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
3658 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
3659 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
3660 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
3662 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
3663 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
3664 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
3666 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
3667 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
3668 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
3669 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
3670 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
3671 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
3673 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
3674 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
3675 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
3676 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
3677 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
3679 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
3680 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
3681 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
3685 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
3687 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
3689 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
3691 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
3692 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
3693 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
3697 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
3698 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
3699 shortname conversion.
3700 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
3701 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
3703 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
3704 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
3705 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
3706 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
3707 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
3708 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
3709 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
3710 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
3711 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
3712 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
3713 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
3714 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
3715 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
3716 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3717 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
3718 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3719 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3720 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3721 waiting for a character to be typed).
3722 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3723 line of the window, like "[time]".
3724 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3725 Automatic and/or with a command.
3729 8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
3730 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
3731 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
3732 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3733 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3734 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
3735 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3736 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
3737 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
3738 :s///N substitutes N times.
3739 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3740 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3741 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
3742 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3743 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3745 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3746 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3747 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3752 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
3753 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
3754 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3755 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3756 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
3757 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3758 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3759 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3760 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3761 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3765 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3766 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
3770 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3771 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3772 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
3773 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3777 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
3778 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3780 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3781 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3783 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3784 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3785 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3786 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3787 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3788 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3789 leader when line wraps?
3790 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3792 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3793 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
3794 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3795 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
3799 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
3800 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
3801 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
3802 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
3803 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3804 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3805 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
3806 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
3807 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3810 Various improvements:
3811 8 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
3812 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
3813 7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
3814 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
3815 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
3816 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
3817 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
3818 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
3820 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
3821 7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
3823 7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
3824 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
3825 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3826 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
3827 7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
3828 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
3830 - Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3832 7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3833 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
3834 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3835 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
3836 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
3837 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3838 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3839 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
3840 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
3841 Assign them to a v: variable?
3842 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3843 window as a buffer-tab selection.
3844 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3845 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
3846 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3847 all changes are gone.
3848 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
3849 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3850 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3851 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3853 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
3854 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
3855 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3856 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3857 have it apply to the following command.
3858 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3859 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3860 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3861 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
3862 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3863 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
3864 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3865 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3866 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3867 without modifier (unless mapped).
3868 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
3869 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
3870 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
3871 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
3872 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3873 highlighted differently.
3874 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3875 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3876 (truncated to fit in the space).
3877 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
3878 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
3879 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3881 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
3882 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
3883 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3884 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
3885 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
3886 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
3887 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
3888 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
3889 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3890 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3891 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3892 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
3893 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
3894 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3895 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
3896 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
3897 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
3898 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3899 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3900 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3901 does something like this. (Shah)
3902 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
3903 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3904 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
3905 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
3906 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3907 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3908 - Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3909 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
3910 jumps). (Webb) Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
3911 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3912 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3913 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
3914 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3915 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3916 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3917 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
3918 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3919 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3920 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3921 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3922 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3923 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3924 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3925 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3926 call "play newbeep.au").
3927 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3928 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3930 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3931 blockwise registers).
3932 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3933 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3934 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3935 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3936 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3938 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
3939 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3940 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3941 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3942 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3943 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3944 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3945 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
3946 8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
3947 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
3948 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3949 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3950 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3951 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3952 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3953 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
3954 - Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
3955 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3956 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3957 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3959 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3960 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
3961 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3962 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
3963 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
3965 :redir #>> bufname (append)
3966 - Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
3967 redirection was active.
3968 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3969 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3970 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
3971 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3972 console? (Klaus Hast)
3973 - Add :delcr command:
3975 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3976 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3977 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3978 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3979 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3980 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3981 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3982 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3983 characters from 'isprint'.
3984 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3985 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3986 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3987 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3988 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3989 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3990 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3991 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3993 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3994 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
3995 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3996 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3997 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
3998 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3999 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4000 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4002 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
4003 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4004 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4005 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
4006 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4007 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4008 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4009 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4010 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4011 if it is not the first or last window.
4012 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4013 there is one) instead of the file itself.
4014 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4015 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4016 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4017 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4018 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
4019 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
4020 many percent down the windows).
4021 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4022 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4023 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4024 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4025 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4026 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4027 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4028 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4029 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4030 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4031 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
4032 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4033 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4034 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4035 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4036 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
4037 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4039 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
4040 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4041 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
4042 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4044 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
4045 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
4046 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4047 hex codes like 0xff).
4048 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4049 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4050 the last TYPED command.
4051 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4052 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4053 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4055 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
4056 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4057 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4059 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4061 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4062 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4063 find_file_in_path().
4064 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4065 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4066 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4067 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4068 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4069 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
4070 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
4071 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4072 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4073 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
4074 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
4075 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4076 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4077 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4078 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4079 to the minimal size.
4080 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4081 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4082 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4083 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4084 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4085 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4086 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4087 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4088 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4090 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4091 as an output filter.
4092 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
4093 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4094 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4095 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4096 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4097 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4099 - Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
4100 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4101 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4102 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4104 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4105 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
4106 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
4107 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4108 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4109 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4110 insert line command).
4111 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4112 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4113 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4114 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4115 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4116 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
4117 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
4119 - Implement 'redraw' option.
4120 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4121 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
4122 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4123 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
4124 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4126 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4128 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4129 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4130 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4131 - Add text justification option.
4132 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4133 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4135 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4136 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4137 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
4138 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
4139 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
4140 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
4141 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4142 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4144 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4145 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4146 - :table command (Webb)
4147 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
4148 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4149 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4150 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4151 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4152 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4154 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4155 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4156 for use in macro's and the like.
4157 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
4158 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
4159 - Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
4160 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4161 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4163 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
4164 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
4165 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4166 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4167 proportionally (Webb).
4168 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
4169 mkopttab to make option table?
4170 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4171 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4172 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4174 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
4175 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4176 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4178 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4179 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
4180 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4181 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
4182 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4183 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4184 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4185 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4187 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4188 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4190 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4191 space after "(", for example.
4192 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4193 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4198 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4199 - Add ":alias" command.
4200 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4202 \@ match word under cursor.
4204 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4205 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
4206 8 ":window" command:
4207 :win + next window (up)
4208 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4209 :win - previous window (down)
4210 :win -- idem, wrapping
4211 :win nr to window number "nr"
4212 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
4213 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4214 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4218 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4219 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4220 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
4221 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4222 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
4223 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4225 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4227 :Edit fname :split fname
4228 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4229 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4230 :Previous :sprevious
4235 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4236 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4240 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4241 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4242 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4245 Far future and "big" extensions:
4246 - Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4247 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4248 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4249 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4250 would also work on MS-Windows.
4251 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4252 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4253 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4254 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4255 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4256 current layout mirrored.
4257 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4258 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4259 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4260 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4261 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4262 font in each top-level window.
4263 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4264 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4265 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4266 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4267 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4268 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4269 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4270 mentioned in the tags file.
4271 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4272 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4273 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4274 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4275 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4276 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
4277 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4278 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4279 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4280 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
4281 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
4282 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4283 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4284 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4285 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4286 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4288 When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4289 empty line would appear.
4291 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: