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*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2013 Aug 10
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VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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TODO list for Vim *todo*
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This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
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improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
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subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
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to look for "the next thing to do":
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Priority classification:
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9 next point release
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8 next release
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7 as soon as possible
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6 soon
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5 should be included
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4 nice to have
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3 consider including
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2 maybe not
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1 probably not
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- unclassified
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*votes-for-changes*
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See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
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be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
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Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
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not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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*known-bugs*
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-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
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Patch to add "acl" and "xpm" as a feature. (Ken Takata, 2013 Jul 8)
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Patch to make has() check for Vim version and patch at the same time.
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(Marc Weber, 2013 Jun 7)
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Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
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highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
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Go through more coverity reports.
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"gUgn" cannot be repeated, while "dgn" can.
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Several Win32 functions are not using Unicode.
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Patches to fix this. (Ken Takata, 2013 Aug 9)
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/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
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Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
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Patch to make external commands work with multi-byte characters on Win32 when
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'encoding' differs from the active codepage. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 5)
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Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
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Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
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Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
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GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
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(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
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Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
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The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
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(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
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Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
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The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
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- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
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- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
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Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
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That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
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Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
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17)
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
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Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
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Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
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complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
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Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
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Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
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Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
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Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
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Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
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correctly. Issue 91.
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Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
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2013 Mar 19, later message)
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Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
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Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
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5)
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Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
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carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
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Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
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highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
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Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
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May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
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May 19: with local variables.
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May 28: with options
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Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
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28) With tests: Oct 9.
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Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
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optional. (2013 Jul 12)
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Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
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functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
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Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
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Second one. Update May 22.
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Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
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MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
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the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
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Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
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- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
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the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
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Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
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v:register is not directly reset to " after a delete command that specifies a
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register. It is reset after the next command. (Steve Vermeulen, 2013 Mar 16)
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'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
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Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
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Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
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In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
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process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
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a reboot.
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MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
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(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
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patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
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Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
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not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
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Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
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Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
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Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
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Or use expand('<sid>')?
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Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
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Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
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Patch to use directX to draw text on Windows. Adds the 'renderoptions'
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option. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jan 25, update 2013 Apr 3, May 14)
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Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
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insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
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Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
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Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
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b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
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7)
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Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
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compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
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Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
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names. (ZyX, 2013 Jul 15 and later)
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Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
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Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
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vim.bindeval().
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Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
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2012 Aug 4)
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Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
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(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
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Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
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But use Gnome instead of GTK?
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Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
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Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
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Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
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Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
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Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
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Crash in autocmd that unloads buffers in a BufUnload event. (Andrew Pimlott,
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2012 Aug 11) Disallow :new when BufUnload is being handled?
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Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
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Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
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loading all files.
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Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
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line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
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after starting up?
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Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
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location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
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8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
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Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
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MS-Windows resizing problems:
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- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
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20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
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- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
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causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
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12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
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'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
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Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
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of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
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Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
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Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
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Also question if examples are correct.
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It should be possible to make globpath() return a list instead of a string,
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like with glob(). (Greg Novack, 2012 Nov 2)
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Patch by Adnan Zafar, 2013 Jul 15.
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The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
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Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
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But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
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Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
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Aug 16)
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Have an option for spell checking to not mark any Chinese, Japanese or other
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double-width characters as error. Or perhaps all characters above 256.
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(Bill Sun) Helps a lot for mixed Asian and latin text.
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When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
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is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
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URXVT:
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- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
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- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
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http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
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Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
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New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
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When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
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for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
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Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
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Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
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Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
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Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
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Apr 18)
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Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
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And one for gui_x11.txt.
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- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
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Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
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Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
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More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
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Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
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Update by Taylor Hedberg, 2013 May 30.
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":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
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finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
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Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
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Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
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Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
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Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
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Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
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they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
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Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
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Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
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Nov 20)
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Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
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Update Jun 2.
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`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
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(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
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Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
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BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
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Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
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Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
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Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
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Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
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Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
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Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
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Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
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On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
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2012 Jun 19)
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'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
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'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
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Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
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Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
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With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
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(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
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need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
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Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
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only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
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21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
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'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
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highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
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Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
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New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
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Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
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Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
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Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
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Jan 19)
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Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
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Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
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Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
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"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
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Oct 26)
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Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
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With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
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register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
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Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
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When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
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(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
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Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
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Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
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Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
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Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
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doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
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Jun 17)
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When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
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then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
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from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
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Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
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":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
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15)
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Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
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BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
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cleared. See test64.
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Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
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Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
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effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5)
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Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
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Patch for variable tabstops.
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On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
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64 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
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right type.
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string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
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(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
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Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
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When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
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(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
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When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
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following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
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(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
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When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
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doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
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7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
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Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
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maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
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mapping, how to restore the script ID?
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Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
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(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
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When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
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indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
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the help file.
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After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
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Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
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Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
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"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
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Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
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30)
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Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
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May 24) Update May 26.
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Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
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Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
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Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
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2010 Dec 18)
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With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
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number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
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8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
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8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
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after typing something.
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Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
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function that resets did_cursorhold.
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
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7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
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Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
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9 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
|
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avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
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|
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Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
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Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
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In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
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or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
|
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sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
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GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
|
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doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
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GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
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Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
|
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Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
|
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|
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Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
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7.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
|
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there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
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do?
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|
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Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
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22)
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|
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New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
|
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- move compflags to separate growarray?
|
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- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
|
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the maximum repeat for * and +?
|
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|
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"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
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2011 Feb 27)
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Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
|
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^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
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'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
|
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way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
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When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
|
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exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
|
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9) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
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g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
|
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the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
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Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
|
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crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
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|
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Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
|
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number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
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Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
|
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- \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
|
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|
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Regexp engine performance:
|
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- Profiling:
|
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./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
|
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./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
|
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./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
|
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./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
|
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./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
|
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Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
|
|
- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
|
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- Performance tests:
|
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- Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
|
|
- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
|
|
- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
|
|
- glts has five tests. (May 25)
|
|
- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
|
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- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
|
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- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
|
|
'hlsearch'.
|
|
- Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
|
|
reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
|
|
7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
|
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'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
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|
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Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
|
|
names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
|
|
Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
|
|
the system encoding (usually utf-8).
|
|
|
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Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
|
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26)
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|
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Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
|
|
Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
|
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|
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'beval' option should be global-local.
|
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Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
|
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setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
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7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
|
|
file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
|
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Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
|
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|
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getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
|
|
element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
|
|
Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
|
|
and that it's documented.
|
|
|
|
With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
|
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2010 Oct 24)
|
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|
|
Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
|
|
Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
|
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|
|
Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
|
|
|
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When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
|
|
Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
|
|
|
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":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
|
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|
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'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
|
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|
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C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
|
|
checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
|
|
Issue 46.
|
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|
|
When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
|
|
right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
|
|
|
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Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
|
|
|
|
Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
|
|
gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
|
|
|
|
":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
|
|
accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
|
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|
|
Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
|
|
setwinvar().
|
|
|
|
Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
|
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|
|
When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
|
|
(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
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|
|
Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
|
|
(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
|
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|
|
When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
|
|
instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
|
|
|
|
Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
|
|
|
|
Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
|
|
Winckler, 2011 May 11)
|
|
Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
|
|
|
|
Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
|
|
back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
|
|
|
|
Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
|
|
one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
|
|
Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
|
|
|
|
Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
|
|
Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
|
|
|
|
CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
|
|
the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
|
|
FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
|
|
|
|
Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
|
|
Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
|
|
|
|
Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
|
|
Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
|
|
|
|
I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
|
|
Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
|
|
an external command).
|
|
|
|
Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
|
|
|
|
Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
|
|
non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
|
|
|
|
iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
|
|
Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
|
|
or replace with a character and continue?
|
|
|
|
Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
|
|
Requires configure check for localtime().
|
|
Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
|
|
|
|
Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
|
|
Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
|
|
|
|
Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
|
|
|
|
Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
|
|
Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
|
|
path.
|
|
|
|
Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
|
|
Dominique can't reproduce it.
|
|
|
|
'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
|
|
|
|
":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
|
|
like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
|
|
|
|
Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
|
|
Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
|
|
|
|
Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
|
|
2010 Nov 5)
|
|
|
|
Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
|
|
Jan 7)
|
|
|
|
Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
|
|
Only with "vim -u NONE".
|
|
|
|
Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
|
|
|
|
With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
|
|
entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
|
|
Feb 12)
|
|
|
|
Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
|
|
characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
|
|
|
|
Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
|
|
|
|
Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
|
|
/[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
|
|
|
|
Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
|
|
|
|
When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
|
|
Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
|
|
|
|
When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
|
|
not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
|
|
string value.
|
|
|
|
Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
|
|
|
|
For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
|
|
line argument -noregister.
|
|
|
|
When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
|
|
missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
|
|
|
|
When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
|
|
doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
|
|
|
|
Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
|
|
(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
|
|
Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
|
|
There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
|
|
Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
|
|
|
|
":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
|
|
highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
|
|
to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
|
|
|
|
Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
|
|
Probably needs a bit of work.
|
|
|
|
List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
|
|
Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
|
|
|
|
Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
|
|
|
|
Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
|
|
|
|
Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
|
|
Sep 1)
|
|
|
|
Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
|
|
|
|
Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
|
|
on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
|
|
|
|
Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
|
|
2009 Jul 18)
|
|
|
|
Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
|
|
Added test, updates, June 23.
|
|
|
|
Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
|
|
window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
|
|
Needs more work.
|
|
|
|
Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
|
|
|
|
When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
|
|
few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
|
|
|
|
'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
|
|
(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
|
|
|
|
Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
|
|
J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
|
|
|
|
When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
|
|
for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
|
|
|
|
Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
|
|
|
|
Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
|
|
|
|
When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
|
|
|
|
":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
|
|
because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
|
|
ex_docmd.c.
|
|
|
|
Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
|
|
Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
|
|
|
|
string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
|
|
for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
|
|
|
|
Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
|
|
|
|
'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
|
|
20)
|
|
|
|
Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
|
|
2009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
|
|
|
|
Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
|
|
|
|
Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
|
|
SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
|
|
|
|
When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
|
|
indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
|
|
(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
|
|
|
|
Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
|
|
are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
|
|
Ignore window options when not in the right window?
|
|
Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
|
|
that doesn't have a window.
|
|
|
|
When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
|
|
doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
|
|
|
|
getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
|
|
displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
|
|
|
|
":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
|
|
|
|
There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
|
|
was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
|
|
perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
|
|
|
|
Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
|
|
|
|
Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
|
|
file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
|
|
system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
|
|
|
|
Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
|
|
command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
|
|
|
|
Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
|
|
|
|
Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
|
|
does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
|
|
|
|
opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
|
|
height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
|
|
very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
|
|
|
|
Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
|
|
(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
|
|
|
|
Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
|
|
(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
|
|
|
|
Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
|
|
char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
|
|
|
|
A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
|
|
|
|
Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
|
|
messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
|
|
es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
|
|
2009 Jan 26)
|
|
|
|
When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
|
|
in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
|
|
Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
|
|
|
|
Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
|
|
a modeline.
|
|
|
|
Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
|
|
Sergey Khorev)
|
|
|
|
Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
|
|
part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
|
|
|
|
netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
|
|
number to be below last visible line.
|
|
|
|
After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
|
|
correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
|
|
|
|
Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
|
|
(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
|
|
|
|
shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
|
|
'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
|
|
Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
|
|
unix-like shell?
|
|
|
|
Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
|
|
register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
|
|
(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
|
|
|
|
Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
|
|
Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
|
|
|
|
Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
|
|
make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
|
|
|
|
When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
|
|
still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
|
|
|
|
"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
|
|
(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
|
|
|
|
Update src/testdir/main.aap.
|
|
|
|
"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
|
|
|
|
Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
|
|
that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
|
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ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
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Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
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Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
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Maybe call it v:motiontype.
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Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
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MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
|
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doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
|
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probably causes this.
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'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
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2009 Jan 16)
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Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
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2013 Jul 30)
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Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
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XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
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XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
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(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
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Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
|
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":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
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option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
|
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is executed.
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":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
|
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first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
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Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
|
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laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
|
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Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
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Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
|
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anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
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On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
|
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doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
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Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
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Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
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":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
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When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
|
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'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
|
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fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
|
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the buffer to be unmodified.
|
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Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
|
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another look at it.
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c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
|
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(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
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You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
|
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error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
|
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Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
|
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at the other match for 0xBF.
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When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
|
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argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
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Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
|
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backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
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When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
|
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line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
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Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
|
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position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
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After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
|
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(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
|
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command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
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|
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":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
|
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Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
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|
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Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
|
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Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
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|
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When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
|
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either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
|
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put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
|
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|
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Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
|
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Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
|
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Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
|
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Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
|
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(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
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|
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Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
|
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|
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ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
|
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|
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Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
|
|
(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
|
|
escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
|
|
an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
|
|
This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
|
|
July 7)
|
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Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
|
|
work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
|
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|
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When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
|
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31)
|
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|
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Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
|
|
work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
|
|
Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
|
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|
|
Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
|
|
2008 May 14)
|
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|
|
Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
|
|
Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
|
|
'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
|
|
|
|
Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
|
|
Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
|
|
|
|
Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
|
|
Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
|
|
|
|
8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
|
|
for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
|
|
several).
|
|
Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
|
|
taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
|
|
that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
|
|
Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
|
|
|
|
Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
|
|
|
|
The utf class table is missing some entries:
|
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0x2212, minus sign
|
|
0x2217, star
|
|
0x2500, bar
|
|
0x26ab, circle
|
|
|
|
Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
|
|
line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
|
|
|
|
GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
|
|
Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
|
|
|
|
Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
|
|
try the Cocoa version.
|
|
|
|
Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
|
|
changed or the window is resized.
|
|
|
|
GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
|
|
the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
|
|
|
|
Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
|
|
Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
|
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|
|
Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
|
|
1) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
|
|
|
|
C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
|
|
with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
|
|
Try to reproduce at work.
|
|
|
|
Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
|
|
Is there a way to list all the files first?
|
|
|
|
When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
|
|
result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
|
|
16)
|
|
|
|
Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
|
|
Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
|
|
|
|
Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
|
|
(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
|
|
|
|
Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
|
|
Await response to question to make the register writable.
|
|
|
|
src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
|
|
remark why.
|
|
|
|
Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
|
|
1)
|
|
|
|
In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
|
|
each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
|
|
|
|
try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
|
|
|
|
try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
|
|
|
|
":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
|
|
Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
|
|
|
|
Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
|
|
|
|
Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
|
|
Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
|
|
|
|
Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
|
|
Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
|
|
Jul 31)
|
|
|
|
C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
|
|
(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
|
|
|
|
Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
|
|
":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
|
|
Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
|
|
|
|
When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
|
|
and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
|
|
|
|
Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
|
|
Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
|
|
|
|
New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
|
|
|
|
":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
|
|
a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
|
|
|
|
'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
|
|
Likonen, March 19)
|
|
|
|
Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
|
|
other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
|
|
|
|
The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
|
|
appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
|
|
matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
|
|
|
|
When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
|
|
character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
|
|
'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
|
|
(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
|
|
|
|
Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
|
|
Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
|
|
|
|
More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
|
|
|
|
Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
|
|
http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
|
|
|
|
Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
|
|
back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
|
|
Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
|
|
|
|
Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
|
|
No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
|
|
|
|
Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
|
|
terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
|
|
|
|
Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
|
|
|
|
Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
|
|
but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
|
|
that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
|
|
|
|
When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
|
|
|
|
Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
|
|
Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
|
|
|
|
Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
|
|
popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
|
|
size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
|
|
This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
|
|
|
|
Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
|
|
a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
|
|
isn't right?
|
|
|
|
When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
|
|
it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
|
|
|
|
Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
|
|
then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
|
|
files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
|
|
Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
|
|
indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
|
|
":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
|
|
in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
|
|
quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
|
|
Kelling, 2008 July 4)
|
|
|
|
When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
|
|
parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
|
|
neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
|
|
particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
|
|
Jun 3)
|
|
However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
|
|
the user put quotes around the expanded item?
|
|
|
|
A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
|
|
Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
|
|
|
|
Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
|
|
Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
|
|
|
|
Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
|
|
switch list is noticed:
|
|
switch (i)
|
|
{
|
|
case 1:
|
|
foobar:
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
|
|
|
|
Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
|
|
with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
|
|
go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
|
|
moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
|
|
|
|
Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
|
|
Latest version: 2011 May 18
|
|
8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
|
|
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
|
|
Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
|
|
Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
|
|
|
|
Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
|
|
64-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
|
|
|
|
Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
|
|
Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
|
|
Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
|
|
argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
|
|
(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
|
|
|
|
Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
|
|
(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
|
|
|
|
Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
|
|
makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
|
|
.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
|
|
# uninstall key: vim7.3*
|
|
|
|
Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
|
|
2007 Feb 8)
|
|
|
|
Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
|
|
set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
|
|
|
|
Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
|
|
|
|
Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
|
|
|
|
Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
|
|
Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
|
|
New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
|
|
patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
|
|
|
|
Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
|
|
Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
|
|
|
|
Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
|
|
|
|
Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
|
|
2007 Feb 18)
|
|
Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
|
|
|
|
Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
|
|
label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
|
|
|
|
Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
|
|
with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
|
|
Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
|
|
|
|
Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
|
|
pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
|
|
|
|
Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
|
|
|
|
Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
|
|
Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
|
|
only takes 'shellslash' into account.
|
|
|
|
Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
|
|
Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
|
|
|
|
Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
|
|
Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
|
|
Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
|
|
properly?
|
|
|
|
Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
|
|
2007 Jun 21)
|
|
|
|
When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
|
|
Jun 18)
|
|
|
|
If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
|
|
|
|
Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
|
|
windows. (Adam George)
|
|
|
|
F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
|
|
modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
|
|
K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
|
|
|
|
UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
|
|
to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
|
|
|
|
In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
|
|
the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
|
|
|
|
C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
|
|
|
|
":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
|
|
|
|
When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
|
|
error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
|
|
|
|
Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
|
|
use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
|
|
|
|
Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
|
|
if_ruby.c.
|
|
|
|
":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
|
|
|
|
The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
|
|
it in keep_msg?
|
|
|
|
Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
|
|
error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
|
|
name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
|
|
|
|
Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
|
|
longer than 2 seconds.
|
|
|
|
Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
|
|
Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
|
|
Also for ":w" without a file name.
|
|
The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
|
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"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
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Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
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VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
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directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
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(Zoltan Arpadffy)
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VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
|
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name?
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Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
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When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
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(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
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Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
|
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will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
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gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
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This also fails with --remote.
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When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
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2008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
|
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all places where buf_freeall() is called?
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aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
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When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
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(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
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Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
|
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the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
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GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
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Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
|
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superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
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Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
|
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character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
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Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
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Jun 5)
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Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
|
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2008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
|
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Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
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In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
|
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but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
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Jul 22)
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There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
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Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
|
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":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
|
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somehow? Or use a new function.
|
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|
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Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
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Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
|
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moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
|
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that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
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The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
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When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
|
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cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
|
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the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
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Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
|
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has been created.
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Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
|
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shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
|
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fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
|
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background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
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A.Politz may work on this.
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|
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These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
|
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let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
|
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cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
|
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cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
|
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|
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Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
|
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partly. (2006 Dec 7)
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|
|
In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
|
|
buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
|
|
reload it then?
|
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|
|
New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
|
|
previous version.
|
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|
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For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
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Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
|
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only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
|
|
|
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Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
|
|
tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
|
|
doesn't contain other directories.
|
|
|
|
Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
|
|
highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
|
|
set background=dark
|
|
This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
|
|
color is, not reset it.
|
|
|
|
Linux distributions:
|
|
- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
|
|
known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
|
|
xfree-xterm".
|
|
- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
|
|
|
|
Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
|
|
start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
|
|
show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
|
|
middle?
|
|
|
|
When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
|
|
(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
|
|
connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
|
|
dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
|
|
|
|
Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
|
|
|
|
When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
|
|
current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
|
|
the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
|
|
|
|
When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
|
|
Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
|
|
|
|
Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
|
|
- sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
|
|
- setting 'mouse' to "a"
|
|
- getting colors in xterm
|
|
- compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
|
|
|
|
Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
|
|
Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
|
|
|
|
Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
|
|
|
|
A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
|
|
Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
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|
|
|
Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
|
|
Dara, 2006 June 21)
|
|
|
|
Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
|
|
number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
|
|
|
|
After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
|
|
the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
|
|
|
|
Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
|
|
|
|
Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
|
|
copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
|
|
error and stop using the connection to the server.
|
|
|
|
Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
|
|
Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
|
|
|
|
Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
|
|
2008 Sep 29)
|
|
|
|
In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
|
|
check the result of has("patch13").
|
|
|
|
Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
|
|
restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
|
|
|
|
Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
|
|
and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
|
|
|
|
Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
|
|
put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
|
|
|
|
Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
|
|
resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
|
|
|
|
In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
|
|
can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
|
|
|
|
GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
|
|
maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
|
|
doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
|
|
Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
|
|
visible.
|
|
|
|
When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
|
|
differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
|
|
|
|
The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
|
|
be only one.
|
|
|
|
"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
|
|
script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
|
|
|
|
It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
|
|
the function name before resolving it to a number?
|
|
let d = {}
|
|
fun! d.foo()
|
|
echo "here"
|
|
endfun
|
|
call d.foo(9)
|
|
|
|
Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
|
|
only set after Visual moded is ended.
|
|
Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
|
|
used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
|
|
|
|
Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
|
|
output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
|
|
Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
|
|
|
|
Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
|
|
"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
|
|
name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
|
|
Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
|
|
|
|
printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
|
|
perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
|
|
|
|
Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
|
|
(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
|
|
|
|
Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
|
|
as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
|
|
|
|
Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
|
|
Jan 1)
|
|
|
|
Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
|
|
23)
|
|
|
|
":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
|
|
tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
|
|
Jun 18)
|
|
|
|
xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
|
|
buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
|
|
Xterm 224 supports it!
|
|
|
|
When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
|
|
text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
|
|
latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
|
|
|
|
Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
|
|
|
|
Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
|
|
no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
|
|
|
|
In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
|
|
VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
|
|
2007 Oct 16)
|
|
|
|
TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
|
|
Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
|
|
|
|
Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
|
|
|
|
When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
|
|
typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
|
|
Sep 3, 11)
|
|
|
|
When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
|
|
respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
|
|
the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
|
|
what happens for the GUI.
|
|
|
|
X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
|
|
pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
|
|
clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
|
|
Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
|
|
Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
|
|
clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
|
|
|
|
":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
|
|
this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
|
|
|
|
When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
|
|
Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
|
|
restored. (Luc St-Louis)
|
|
|
|
Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
|
|
2010 Jun 30)
|
|
|
|
|
|
At next release:
|
|
- Build a huge version by default.
|
|
- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
|
|
E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
|
|
|
|
|
|
More patches:
|
|
- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
|
|
Needs a few tests.
|
|
- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
|
|
- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
|
|
21)
|
|
- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
|
|
patch May 10)
|
|
- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
|
|
Arnold, 2006 May 22)
|
|
- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
|
|
(Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
|
|
- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
|
|
- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
|
|
- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
|
|
Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
|
|
character at a time?
|
|
- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
|
|
- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
|
|
Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
|
|
- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
|
|
"}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
|
|
- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
|
|
21)
|
|
- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
|
|
vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
|
|
- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
|
|
Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
|
|
- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
|
|
Sep 13)
|
|
- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
|
|
Docs patch Oct 30)
|
|
- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
|
|
Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
|
|
more friendly for the Vim distribution.
|
|
New version received 2008 Jan 6.
|
|
No maintenance in two years...
|
|
- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
|
|
|
|
Awaiting updated patches:
|
|
9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
|
|
8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
|
|
New patch 2004 Jun 16
|
|
- selecting proportional font breaks display
|
|
- UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
|
|
- Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
|
|
- With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
|
|
(Alan Schmitt)
|
|
- remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
|
|
- when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
|
|
'termencoding'?
|
|
9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
|
|
be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
|
|
8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
|
|
8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
|
|
Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
|
|
7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
|
|
Update 2004 Sep 6.
|
|
How does this work? Missing comments.
|
|
8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
|
|
(28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
|
|
7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
|
|
before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
|
|
- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
|
|
for multi-byte characters.
|
|
- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
|
|
- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
|
|
use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
|
|
been given values.
|
|
Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
|
|
8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
|
|
with an ESC sequence.
|
|
xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
|
|
<Esc>]12;?<Bel>
|
|
Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
|
|
7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
|
|
Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
|
|
- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
|
|
line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
|
|
Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
|
|
8 Add functions:
|
|
gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
|
|
Update 2004 Sep 10
|
|
Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
|
|
Search in 'runtimepath'?
|
|
More docs needed about how to use this.
|
|
How to get the messages into the .po files?
|
|
strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
|
|
instead of bytes.
|
|
confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
|
|
layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
|
|
Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
|
|
(2003 May 13)
|
|
raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
|
|
Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
|
|
taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
|
|
useful for interactive things or completion.
|
|
col('^') column of first non-white character.
|
|
Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
|
|
+ 1", but that's ugly.
|
|
7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
|
|
better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
|
|
- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
|
|
quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
|
|
7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
|
|
to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
|
|
8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
|
|
(uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
|
|
7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
|
|
8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
|
|
done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
|
|
7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
|
|
Kotchan has a patch for it)
|
|
8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
|
|
patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
|
|
Or use emacs server kind of thing?
|
|
7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
|
|
- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
|
|
get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
|
|
incomplete patch Mar 18)
|
|
- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
|
|
and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
|
|
- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vi incompatibility:
|
|
- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
|
|
Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
|
|
8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
|
|
marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
|
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is deleted or restored. (Webb)
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Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
|
|
Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
|
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position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
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8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
|
|
make Vim exit.
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7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
|
|
(currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
|
|
Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
|
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8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
|
|
loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
|
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given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
|
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6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
|
|
only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
|
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in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
|
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8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
|
|
symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
|
|
Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
|
|
names in one buffer???
|
|
Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
|
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then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
|
|
logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
|
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7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
|
|
changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
|
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command was one command.
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On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
|
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change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
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7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
|
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the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
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7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
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7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
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7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
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flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
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7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
|
|
making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
|
|
the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
|
|
all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
|
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7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
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7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
|
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7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
|
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to the match with the tag? Option?
|
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7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
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7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
|
|
(Sayre).
|
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7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
|
|
cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
|
|
7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
|
|
In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
|
|
match. Nvi can do it too.
|
|
7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
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g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
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line 1\ line 2\\
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line 2\ line 3\\
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. line4/
|
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6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
|
|
the way the shell is started?
|
|
6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
|
|
thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
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|
|
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GTK+ GUI known bugs:
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9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
|
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8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
|
|
Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
|
|
creating a label?
|
|
8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
|
|
Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
|
|
everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
|
|
9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
|
|
when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
|
|
vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
|
|
It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
|
|
- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
|
|
floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
|
|
blocked for now.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Win32 GUI known bugs:
|
|
- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
|
|
the screen.
|
|
8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
|
|
the wide functions.
|
|
8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
|
|
file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
|
|
8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
|
|
The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
|
|
Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
|
|
8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
|
|
WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
|
|
7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
|
|
pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
|
|
"lucida_console:h8").
|
|
6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
|
|
of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
|
|
8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
|
|
characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
|
|
type of characters.
|
|
7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
|
|
appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
|
|
to use an opaque background in most places?
|
|
8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
|
|
when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
|
|
Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
|
|
8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
|
|
in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
|
|
UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
|
|
7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
|
|
2004 May 9)
|
|
8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
|
|
a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
|
|
window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
|
|
MS-Windows 98?
|
|
Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
|
|
console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
|
|
file: Window moves with the cursor!
|
|
Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
|
|
8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
|
|
comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
|
|
NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
|
|
doesn't work properly.
|
|
8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
|
|
up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
|
|
appears in the right position. (Webb)
|
|
9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
|
|
button doesn't give popup menu.
|
|
At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
|
|
selection.
|
|
On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
|
|
Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
|
|
non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
|
|
8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
|
|
user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
|
|
Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
|
|
occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
|
|
8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
|
|
Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
|
|
be read.
|
|
7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
|
|
Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
|
|
Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
|
|
7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
|
|
keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
|
|
scroll?
|
|
7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
|
|
Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
|
|
6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
|
|
8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
|
|
for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
|
|
CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
|
|
8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
|
|
know which keyboard is being used?
|
|
7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
|
|
doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
|
|
area (Koloseike).
|
|
8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
|
|
still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
|
|
then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
|
|
the font name).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Athena and Motif:
|
|
6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
|
|
- When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
|
|
Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
|
|
- The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
|
|
with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
|
|
9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
|
|
required and it's missing?
|
|
8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
|
|
wrong.
|
|
9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
|
|
be off by default.
|
|
9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
|
|
keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
|
|
flag.
|
|
8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
|
|
Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
|
|
Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
|
|
8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
|
|
6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
|
|
the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
|
|
menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
|
|
the tooltips work though...
|
|
7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
|
|
always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
|
|
8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
|
|
menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
|
|
current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Athena GUI:
|
|
9 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
|
|
The second click on a menu does work.
|
|
9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
|
|
the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
|
|
through files.
|
|
7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
|
|
read long file names. (Schroeder)
|
|
4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
|
|
through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
|
|
window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
|
|
problem during a refresh.
|
|
5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
|
|
":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
|
|
pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
|
|
If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
|
|
colors as it should.
|
|
Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
|
|
pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Motif GUI:
|
|
- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
|
|
7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
|
|
David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
|
|
8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
|
|
very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
|
|
(Phillipps)
|
|
|
|
|
|
GUI:
|
|
9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
|
|
longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
|
|
9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
|
|
e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
|
|
Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
|
|
9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
|
|
is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
|
|
8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
|
|
should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
|
|
8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
|
|
the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
|
|
the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
|
|
8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
|
|
gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
|
|
of where it is processing the output.
|
|
Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
|
|
8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
|
|
doesn't work.
|
|
8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
|
|
8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
|
|
that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
|
|
still translated.
|
|
8 Add menu separators for Amiga.
|
|
8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
|
|
browse().
|
|
8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
|
|
use that code? Or use console dialog.
|
|
8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
|
|
error message disappears too quick.
|
|
7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
|
|
- regexp on/off
|
|
- search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
|
|
when all buffers/directory is used:
|
|
- filter for file name
|
|
when directory is used:
|
|
- subdirectory on/off
|
|
- top directory browser
|
|
8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
|
|
to avoid problems.
|
|
8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
|
|
are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
|
|
input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
|
|
8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
|
|
lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
|
|
When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
|
|
8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
|
|
up. Set erase character somehow?
|
|
8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
|
|
(Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
|
|
Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
|
|
Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
|
|
8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
|
|
7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
|
|
visible.
|
|
7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
|
|
hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
|
|
7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
|
|
doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
|
|
8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
|
|
bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
|
|
8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
|
|
redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
|
|
When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
|
|
remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
|
|
- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
|
|
4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
|
|
when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
|
|
currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSDOS/DJGPP:
|
|
9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
|
|
When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
|
|
BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
|
|
8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
|
|
change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
|
|
9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
|
|
code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
|
|
write a file.
|
|
9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
|
|
Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
|
|
the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
|
|
'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
|
|
9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
|
|
CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
|
|
ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
|
|
Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
|
|
to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
|
|
Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
|
|
Make this work like in Win32 console.
|
|
Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
|
|
key code. Use a translation table?
|
|
9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
|
|
At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
|
|
8 Use DJGPP 2.03.
|
|
8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
|
|
Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
|
|
8 setlocale() is bogus.
|
|
8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
|
|
sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
|
|
Windows 95 system!
|
|
8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
|
|
7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
|
|
machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
|
|
7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
|
|
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
|
|
Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
|
|
8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
|
|
modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
|
|
7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
|
|
The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
|
|
crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
|
|
"[New file]".
|
|
7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
|
|
that is supported?
|
|
8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
|
|
8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
|
|
Briscoe)
|
|
|
|
|
|
MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
|
|
8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
|
|
gen_expand_wildcards().
|
|
8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
|
|
Wagner.
|
|
8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
|
|
8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
|
|
writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
|
|
8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
|
|
a good fallback, thus use:
|
|
$HOME
|
|
$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
|
|
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
|
|
$USERPROFILE
|
|
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
|
|
$ALLUSERSPROFILE
|
|
$SYSTEMDRIVE\
|
|
C:\
|
|
8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
|
|
special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
|
|
8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
|
|
Should work like in the GUI version.
|
|
8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
|
|
STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
|
|
8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
|
|
it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
|
|
8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
|
|
followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
|
|
another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
|
|
8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
|
|
to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
|
|
backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
|
|
|
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Windows 95:
|
|
8 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
|
|
name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
|
|
Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
|
|
8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
|
|
long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
|
|
|
|
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|
Win32 console:
|
|
9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
|
|
long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
|
|
1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
|
|
2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
|
|
3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
|
|
4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
|
|
5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
|
|
6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
|
|
and the file is not saved.
|
|
Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
|
|
long name.
|
|
8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
|
|
how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
|
|
7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
|
|
besides the console.
|
|
8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
|
|
9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
|
|
<C-S-i>?
|
|
9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
|
|
a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
|
|
8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
|
|
is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
|
|
7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
|
|
Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
|
|
exiting.
|
|
|
|
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|
Amiga:
|
|
8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
|
|
sequences.
|
|
9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
|
|
backslashes in result.
|
|
8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
|
|
all options, using white space separation.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Macintosh:
|
|
- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
|
|
7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
|
|
Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
|
|
(Jack)
|
|
dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
|
|
8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
|
|
2006 Sept 28)
|
|
8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
|
|
8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
|
|
9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
|
|
a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
|
|
9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Small" problems:
|
|
- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
|
|
CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
|
|
- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
|
|
otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
|
|
- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
|
|
Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
|
|
(Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
|
|
Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
|
|
cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
|
|
Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
|
|
the command.
|
|
9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
|
|
functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
|
|
9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
|
|
edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
|
|
file isn't readonly, etc.
|
|
8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
|
|
the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
|
|
normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
|
|
the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
|
|
7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
|
|
requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
|
|
8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
|
|
redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
|
|
for redirection.
|
|
7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
|
|
'termencoding'.
|
|
- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
|
|
'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
|
|
8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
|
|
line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
|
|
to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
|
|
using the horizontal scrollbar.
|
|
7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
|
|
with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
|
|
invocations belong together.
|
|
8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
|
|
buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
|
|
8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
|
|
tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
|
|
UnxUtils.zip archive.
|
|
Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
|
|
Briscoe says it's not as good.
|
|
8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
|
|
edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
|
|
an allocated structure?
|
|
8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
|
|
":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
|
|
7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
|
|
character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
|
|
byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
|
|
(like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
|
|
8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
|
|
defined.
|
|
7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
|
|
":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
|
|
Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
|
|
7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
|
|
"<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
|
|
delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
|
|
7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
|
|
bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
|
|
7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
|
|
Remove? (Dan Sharp)
|
|
9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
|
|
causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
|
|
script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
|
|
"-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
|
|
script can be called.
|
|
8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
|
|
but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
|
|
works.
|
|
8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
|
|
CTRL-C.
|
|
8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
|
|
is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
|
|
configurable?
|
|
8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
|
|
9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
|
|
the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
|
|
then. (Pritesh Mistry)
|
|
8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
|
|
"old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
|
|
8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
|
|
is a multi-byte character.
|
|
8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
|
|
always written, even when the original file already exists.
|
|
9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
|
|
being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
|
|
written.
|
|
7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
|
|
8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
|
|
set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
|
|
'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
|
|
8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
|
|
so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
|
|
When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
|
|
":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
|
|
8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
|
|
variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
|
|
9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
|
|
swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
|
|
a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
|
|
one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
|
|
7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
|
|
Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
|
|
7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
|
|
command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
|
|
covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
|
|
direction, not horizontally?
|
|
8 ":hardcopy":
|
|
- Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
|
|
- Need to handle unprintable characters.
|
|
- Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
|
|
dithering to make grey text?
|
|
- Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
|
|
number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
|
|
- Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
|
|
- Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
|
|
- Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
|
|
Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
|
|
- Be able to print a window in diff mode.
|
|
- Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
|
|
one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
|
|
8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
|
|
text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
|
|
9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
|
|
Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
|
|
that Windows NT is being used?
|
|
8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
|
|
block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
|
|
8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
|
|
in lines that don't extend into the block?
|
|
8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
|
|
yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
|
|
Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
|
|
8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
|
|
'linebreak'.
|
|
8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
|
|
that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
|
|
(Helmut Stiegler)
|
|
9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
|
|
'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
|
|
on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
|
|
'magic' in history. (Margo)
|
|
9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
|
|
":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
|
|
9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
|
|
isn't updated).
|
|
9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
|
|
9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
|
|
correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
|
|
cause another redraw, etc.
|
|
8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
|
|
must escape special characters in the pattern.
|
|
8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
|
|
existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
|
|
":w!!" for that.
|
|
Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
|
|
restore file to readonly afterwards.
|
|
Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
|
|
7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
|
|
error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
|
|
background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
|
|
the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
|
|
clipboard)
|
|
7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
|
|
selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
|
|
Waggoner)
|
|
8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
|
|
title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
|
|
need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
|
|
6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
|
|
annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
|
|
colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
|
|
8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
|
|
way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
|
|
8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
|
|
recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
|
|
See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
|
|
8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
|
|
8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
|
|
(e.g., ":w").
|
|
8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
|
|
"-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
|
|
8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
|
|
for ">>".
|
|
8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
|
|
script in do_cmdline().
|
|
8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
|
|
maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
|
|
this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
|
|
changes.
|
|
8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
|
|
filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
|
|
8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
|
|
check for file marks. This can be slow.
|
|
7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
|
|
add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
|
|
needed.
|
|
Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
|
|
8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
|
|
to skip catch_signals()?
|
|
9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
|
|
clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
|
|
mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
|
|
text?
|
|
8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
|
|
all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
|
|
8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
|
|
overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
|
|
9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
|
|
wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
|
|
window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
|
|
--> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
|
|
"screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
|
|
7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
|
|
Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
|
|
use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
|
|
in the list?
|
|
8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
|
|
on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
|
|
instead of on button down.
|
|
8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
|
|
9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
|
|
reaching the end of the available buffer.
|
|
Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
|
|
May 14)
|
|
8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
|
|
character is typed.
|
|
8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
|
|
It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
|
|
8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
|
|
work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
|
|
8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
|
|
alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
|
|
for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
|
|
Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
|
|
cygwin bash.
|
|
7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
|
|
Remember flags for backreferences.
|
|
7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
|
|
changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
|
|
7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
|
|
that contain a '$' after all have been found.
|
|
8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
|
|
it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
|
|
7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
|
|
this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
|
|
7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
|
|
"dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
|
|
"initdir" is the default path to be used.
|
|
7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
|
|
two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
|
|
8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
|
|
tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
|
|
that the user knows he has to delete the files.
|
|
7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
|
|
<SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
|
|
9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
|
|
disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
|
|
files. (McCollister)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
|
|
- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
|
|
right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
|
|
right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
|
|
- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
|
|
slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
|
|
~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
|
|
loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
|
|
file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
|
|
needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
|
|
(2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
|
|
- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
|
|
test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
|
|
"xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
|
|
with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
|
|
manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
|
|
worked around with a delay.
|
|
- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
|
|
a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
|
|
display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
|
|
the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
|
|
command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
|
|
- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
|
|
permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
|
|
XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
|
|
- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
|
|
This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
|
|
- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
|
|
- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
|
|
be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
|
|
character gets the highlighting.
|
|
- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
|
|
problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
|
|
- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
|
|
(Jennings)
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- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
|
|
- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
|
|
errors. How do we get the rest?
|
|
- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
|
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- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
|
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access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
|
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- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
|
|
readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
|
|
first?
|
|
- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
|
|
names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
|
|
- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
|
|
(e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
|
|
because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
|
|
- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
|
|
"%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
|
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Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
|
|
(Benzinger).
|
|
- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
|
|
program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
|
|
can't get back what the external command didn't use.
|
|
- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
|
|
It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
|
|
- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
|
|
used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
|
|
- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
|
|
time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
|
|
the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
|
|
DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
|
|
Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
|
|
Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
|
|
- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
|
|
are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
|
|
This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
|
|
- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
|
|
dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
|
|
"ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
|
|
- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
|
|
scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
|
|
libraries, get a patch from Sun.
|
|
- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
|
|
input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
|
|
- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
|
|
different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
|
|
- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
|
|
does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
|
|
- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
|
|
in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
|
|
- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
|
|
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
|
|
This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
|
|
"en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
|
|
error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
|
|
- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
|
|
screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
|
|
:nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
|
|
- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
|
|
ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
|
|
always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
|
|
- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
|
|
This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
|
|
- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
|
|
termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
|
|
termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
|
|
highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
|
|
in the vimrc file to be lost.
|
|
- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
|
|
"Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
|
|
|
|
--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
|
|
*extensions-improvements*
|
|
|
|
Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
|
|
- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
|
|
Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
|
|
calling a function.
|
|
With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
|
|
Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
|
|
- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
|
|
can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
|
|
- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
|
|
Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
|
|
http://clewn.sf.net.
|
|
And the idevim plugin/script.
|
|
To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
|
|
with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
|
|
terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
|
|
other window.
|
|
Wishes for NetBeans commands:
|
|
- make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
|
|
- send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
|
|
in terminal mode.
|
|
- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
|
|
implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
|
|
Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
|
|
198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
|
|
Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
|
|
Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
|
|
And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
|
|
- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
|
|
Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
|
|
scrolls back to where the cursor is.
|
|
- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
|
|
first line to be able to start halfway.
|
|
- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
|
|
the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
|
|
http://vimshell.wana.at
|
|
8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
|
|
values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
|
|
Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
|
|
taglist() can be used.
|
|
- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
|
|
This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Documentation:
|
|
8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
|
|
Feb 20.
|
|
8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
|
|
to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
|
|
8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
|
|
or not.
|
|
8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
|
|
7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
|
|
9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
|
|
- change to cursor position and curswant
|
|
- if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
|
|
- how it works for folded lines
|
|
- how it works with multi-byte characters
|
|
9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
|
|
work too.
|
|
8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
|
|
should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
|
|
text.
|
|
8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
|
|
7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
|
|
look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
|
|
7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
|
|
<C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
|
|
Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
|
|
- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Help:
|
|
- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
|
|
pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
|
|
- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
|
|
to the other matches.
|
|
- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
|
|
- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
|
|
- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
|
|
displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
|
|
user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
|
|
default contents.
|
|
- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
|
|
height for the help window (and other windows).
|
|
- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
|
|
- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
|
|
- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
|
|
|
|
|
|
User Friendlier:
|
|
8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
|
|
links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
|
|
Briscoe)
|
|
8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
|
|
8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
|
|
dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
|
|
the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
|
|
8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
|
|
$HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
|
|
- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
|
|
":mkplugin <file>"?
|
|
8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
|
|
includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
|
|
'runtimepath'.
|
|
" Vim plugin
|
|
<main plugin code>
|
|
" >>> plugin help start <<<
|
|
<plugin docs>
|
|
- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
|
|
9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
|
|
disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
|
|
item?).
|
|
Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
|
|
8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
|
|
7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
|
|
7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
|
|
of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
|
|
window can be displayed. (Eduard)
|
|
8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
|
|
":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
|
|
gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
|
|
global_event_filter() for GTK.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tab pages:
|
|
9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
|
|
7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
|
|
font, etc.)
|
|
8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
|
|
8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
|
|
7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
|
|
7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
|
|
its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
|
|
7 Add local variables for each tab page?
|
|
8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
|
|
tab pages.
|
|
7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
|
|
7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
|
|
window-local directories?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spell checking:
|
|
- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
|
|
E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
|
|
don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
|
|
languages in the file.
|
|
- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
|
|
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
|
|
- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
|
|
of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
|
|
with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
|
|
- Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
|
|
Similarly for TeX.
|
|
- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
|
|
items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
|
|
problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
|
|
- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
|
|
What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
|
|
Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
|
|
- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
|
|
Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
|
|
- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
|
|
used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
|
|
(Teemu Likonen)
|
|
8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
|
|
hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
|
|
8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
|
|
WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
|
|
8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
|
|
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
|
|
items and check if the result is a valid word.
|
|
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
|
|
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
|
|
Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
|
|
How is it supposed to work?
|
|
- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
|
|
context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
|
|
- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
|
|
- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
|
|
the word are not used.
|
|
- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
|
|
use same wordlist for hyphenation.
|
|
- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
|
|
syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
|
|
- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
|
|
Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
|
|
- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
|
|
word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
|
|
- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
|
|
- Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
|
|
- Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
|
|
in the affix file separately.
|
|
- Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
|
|
COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
|
|
- PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
|
|
- COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
|
|
Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
|
|
- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
|
|
the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
|
|
bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
|
|
specific prefixes with suffixes.
|
|
Alternative:
|
|
PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
|
|
We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
|
|
affix which is required.
|
|
- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
|
|
COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
|
|
- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
|
|
etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
|
|
directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
|
|
- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
|
|
word/flags and affix.
|
|
- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
|
|
Await comments from other spell checking authors.
|
|
- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
|
|
8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
|
|
syntax items (to add @Spell).
|
|
Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
|
|
cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
|
|
- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
|
|
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
|
|
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
|
|
author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
|
|
8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
|
|
"not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
|
|
8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
|
|
8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
|
|
use of words with a dash.
|
|
7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
|
|
8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
|
|
:set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
|
|
More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
|
|
in English, strings in German (po file).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Diff mode:
|
|
9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
|
|
found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
|
|
It's quite big and badly documented though.
|
|
8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
|
|
Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
|
|
new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
|
|
Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
|
|
can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
|
|
7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
|
|
move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
|
|
location.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Folding:
|
|
(commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
|
|
secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
|
|
8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
|
|
through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
|
|
8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
|
|
9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
|
|
with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
|
|
8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
|
|
behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
|
|
user aware of this?
|
|
8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
|
|
commands skip over a closed fold.
|
|
8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
|
|
8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
|
|
7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
|
|
- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
|
|
empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
|
|
missing line goes unnoticed.
|
|
How to implement this?
|
|
- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
|
|
until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
|
|
smoother?
|
|
- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
|
|
using the wininfo in wi_folds.
|
|
- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
|
|
file can contain:
|
|
args version.c main.c
|
|
edit version.c
|
|
Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
|
|
- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
|
|
- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
|
|
to implement this?
|
|
- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
|
|
cursor.
|
|
- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
|
|
match.
|
|
- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
|
|
8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
|
|
searches.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Multi-byte characters:
|
|
- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
|
|
to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
|
|
:unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
|
|
Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
|
|
9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
|
|
display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
|
|
double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
|
|
byte).
|
|
9 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
|
|
set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
|
|
it be done with an autocommand?
|
|
8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
|
|
the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
|
|
To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
|
|
"-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
|
|
Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
|
|
item.
|
|
8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
|
|
the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
|
|
For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
|
|
8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
|
|
option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
|
|
":grep" and ":helpgrep".
|
|
More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
|
|
8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
|
|
should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
|
|
8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
|
|
when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
|
|
different fileencoding for filter output?
|
|
7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
|
|
so that the user can fix the problem.
|
|
8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
|
|
Schweigert)
|
|
9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
|
|
8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
|
|
8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
|
|
8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
|
|
7 Searching and composing characters:
|
|
When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
|
|
Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
|
|
one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
|
|
Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
|
|
characters can be manipulated.
|
|
Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
|
|
characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
|
|
8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
|
|
8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
|
|
8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
|
|
characters.
|
|
8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
|
|
8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
|
|
of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
|
|
7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
|
|
'display' option to specify this.
|
|
7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
|
|
(www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
|
|
- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
|
|
fontselector somehow.
|
|
- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
|
|
possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
|
|
- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
|
|
other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
|
|
- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
|
|
depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
|
|
Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
|
|
For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
|
|
if a font exists?
|
|
- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
|
|
convert_input() for Mac GUI.
|
|
- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
|
|
Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
|
|
7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
|
|
"lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
|
|
- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
|
|
table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
|
|
Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
|
|
at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
|
|
- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
|
|
could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
|
|
of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
|
|
- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
|
|
account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
|
|
ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
|
|
But it's very complicated...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Printing:
|
|
7 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
|
|
- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
|
|
- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
|
|
the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
|
|
- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
|
|
Reilly)
|
|
- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
|
|
- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
|
|
name, portrait/landscape, etc).
|
|
- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
|
|
character set. How to support Unicode fully?
|
|
- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
|
|
units as for the margins.
|
|
- Support right-to-left text?
|
|
8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
|
|
color.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Syntax highlighting:
|
|
8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
|
|
Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
|
|
8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
|
|
cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
|
|
8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
|
|
"({ something })", often used in GCC code.
|
|
7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
|
|
preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
|
|
8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
|
|
it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
|
|
":wq file".
|
|
7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
|
|
really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
|
|
group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
|
|
8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
|
|
9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
|
|
used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
|
|
7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
|
|
Search highlighting.
|
|
7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
|
|
Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
|
|
8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
|
|
change this for each release.
|
|
8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
|
|
pattern, but not in the body.
|
|
8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
|
|
one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
|
|
instead of the containing item.
|
|
8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
|
|
8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
|
|
this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
|
|
When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
|
|
but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
|
|
Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
|
|
window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
|
|
8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
|
|
"%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
|
|
8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
|
|
background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
|
|
Option for the matchparen plugin?
|
|
8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
|
|
sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
|
|
used.
|
|
8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
|
|
allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
|
|
8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
|
|
re-insert the [] if possible.
|
|
8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
|
|
the Cursor).
|
|
8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
|
|
when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
|
|
highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
|
|
password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
|
|
syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
|
|
8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
|
|
using "\1" in a ":s" command.
|
|
8 Support for deleting syntax items:
|
|
:syn keyword cTodo remove this
|
|
:syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
|
|
:syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
|
|
8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
|
|
doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
|
|
a '<'. (Fleiner)
|
|
7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
|
|
Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
|
|
backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
|
|
7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
|
|
detected.
|
|
8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
|
|
character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
|
|
8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
|
|
"Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
|
|
8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
|
|
8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
|
|
7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
|
|
":mkvimrc".
|
|
8 Improve c.vim:
|
|
- Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
|
|
"c_strict_ansi".
|
|
- Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
|
|
8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
|
|
current line while in Insert mode.
|
|
8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
|
|
loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
|
|
8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
|
|
display position.
|
|
8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
|
|
allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
|
|
Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
|
|
8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
|
|
redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
|
|
highlighting starts.
|
|
8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
|
|
GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
|
|
sequence.
|
|
7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
|
|
lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
|
|
user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
|
|
get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
|
|
Weibull)
|
|
7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
|
|
colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
|
|
E.g. for this html:
|
|
<B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
|
|
7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
|
|
7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
|
|
words.
|
|
8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
|
|
8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
|
|
7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
|
|
Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
|
|
completion?
|
|
8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
|
|
highlighting. (Salman Halim)
|
|
7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
|
|
select one of the sets.
|
|
8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
|
|
'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
|
|
2, etc.
|
|
8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
|
|
highlighting (for "." command).
|
|
8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
|
|
For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
|
|
8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
|
|
7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
|
|
ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
|
|
6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
|
|
the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
|
|
- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
|
|
when extending an already existing syntax file.
|
|
- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
|
|
- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
|
|
(for comment blocks).
|
|
- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
|
|
'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
|
|
'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
|
|
'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
|
|
Also for {}, <>, etc.?
|
|
'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
|
|
OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
|
|
region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
|
|
(Campbell)
|
|
Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
|
|
the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
|
|
7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
|
|
Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
|
|
7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
|
|
allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
|
|
And allows for sections with different highlighting.
|
|
7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
|
|
highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
|
|
messages. And external commands?
|
|
8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
|
|
text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
|
|
7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
|
|
unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Built-in script language:
|
|
8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
|
|
they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
|
|
7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
|
|
restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
|
|
to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
|
|
8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
|
|
":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
|
|
- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
|
|
2006 Dec 11.
|
|
- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
|
|
8 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
|
|
You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
|
|
Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
|
|
It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
|
|
Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
|
|
execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
|
|
7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
|
|
Will be tricky for the list of script names.
|
|
8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
|
|
8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
|
|
encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
|
|
obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
|
|
sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
|
|
nested packages?
|
|
Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
|
|
Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
|
|
$VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
|
|
7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
|
|
1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
|
|
has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
|
|
supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
|
|
autocommand.
|
|
2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
|
|
.vim file. Problem: distribution.
|
|
3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
|
|
file belongs to a sourced script?
|
|
7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
|
|
signs and/or 'number'.
|
|
6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
|
|
implement this?
|
|
8 Add functions:
|
|
has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
|
|
with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
|
|
system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
|
|
exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
|
|
escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
|
|
modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
|
|
stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
|
|
realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
|
|
user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
|
|
3 2002
|
|
Only add this when also implemented for
|
|
non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
|
|
be used.
|
|
get_user_name() gets login name.
|
|
menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
|
|
Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
|
|
menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
|
|
menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
|
|
File.Open..." argument.
|
|
Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
|
|
Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
|
|
with properties instead.
|
|
mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
|
|
Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
|
|
Return a list instead.
|
|
char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
|
|
crypt() encrypt string
|
|
decrypt() decrypt string
|
|
base64enc() base 64 encoding
|
|
base64dec() base 64 decoding
|
|
attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
|
|
filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
|
|
shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
|
|
perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
|
|
inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
|
|
typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
|
|
find out what happened)
|
|
virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
|
|
Visual block mode.
|
|
getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
|
|
deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
|
|
appendbufline() append line in any buffer
|
|
libcall() Allow more than one argument.
|
|
libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
|
|
to allow the library to execute a command or
|
|
evaluate an expression.
|
|
7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
|
|
column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
|
|
8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
|
|
specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
|
|
8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
|
|
List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
|
|
8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
|
|
7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
|
|
:func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
|
|
6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
|
|
8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
|
|
just ignore.
|
|
8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
|
|
option or environment variable.
|
|
8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
|
|
8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
|
|
Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
|
|
7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
|
|
available as a List.
|
|
8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
|
|
:au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
|
|
8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
|
|
8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
|
|
linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
|
|
rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
|
|
charwise({expr}).
|
|
7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
|
|
with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
|
|
buffer for this?
|
|
result = scratch(string, command)
|
|
result = apply(string, command)
|
|
result = execute(string, command)
|
|
"command" would use <> notation.
|
|
Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
|
|
7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robustness:
|
|
6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
|
|
fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
|
|
the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
|
|
The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
|
|
Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
|
|
Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
|
|
lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Performance:
|
|
7 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
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itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
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7 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
|
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starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
|
|
size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
|
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you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
|
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8 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
|
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buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
|
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so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
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that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
|
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With a patch, but does it work?
|
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8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
|
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once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
|
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repeating it in various system files.
|
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8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
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9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
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8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
|
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7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
|
|
jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
|
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8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
|
|
as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
|
|
when starting up in a color terminal.
|
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8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
|
|
Win16.
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8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
|
|
function be improved?
|
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8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
|
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default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
|
|
file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
|
|
this be improved?
|
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8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
|
|
MS-DOS version. (Negri)
|
|
7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
|
|
(Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
|
|
7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
|
|
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
|
|
7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
|
|
lot of abbreviations).
|
|
7 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
|
|
7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
|
|
at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
|
|
for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
|
|
Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
|
|
Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
|
|
Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
|
|
Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
|
|
8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
|
|
compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
|
|
using strcmp() too often?
|
|
7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
|
|
Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
|
|
the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
|
|
memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
|
|
fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
|
|
the two blocks to the memfile block.
|
|
7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
|
|
and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
|
|
with an argument that can be messed with.
|
|
Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
|
|
indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
|
|
7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
|
|
- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
|
|
8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
|
|
$VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
|
|
- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
|
|
lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
|
|
- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
|
|
- Do profiling on:
|
|
- :g/pat/normal cmd
|
|
- 1000ii<Esc>
|
|
- deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
|
|
- "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
|
|
- ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
|
|
- highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
|
|
"~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
|
|
- loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
|
|
- editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
|
|
7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
|
|
changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
|
|
changed).
|
|
- On each change, remember start and end of the change.
|
|
- When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
|
|
- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
|
|
- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
|
|
very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
|
|
- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
|
|
move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
|
|
normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
|
|
- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
|
|
the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
|
|
- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
|
|
- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
|
|
cursor is right of the screen.
|
|
8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
|
|
CTRL-C (it's slow).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Code size:
|
|
8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
|
|
- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
|
|
passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
|
|
8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
|
|
8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
|
|
it.
|
|
7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
|
|
left out.
|
|
8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
|
|
can be removed.
|
|
8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Messages:
|
|
8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
|
|
command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
|
|
8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
|
|
lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
|
|
8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
|
|
script.
|
|
- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
|
|
Perhaps after ten seconds?
|
|
- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
|
|
8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
|
|
message.
|
|
9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
|
|
Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
|
|
When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
|
|
message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
|
|
redrawing.
|
|
8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
|
|
specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
|
|
8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
|
|
option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
|
|
not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
|
|
Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
|
|
typing, error messages must be switched back on.
|
|
Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
|
|
- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
|
|
Sleep before second message?
|
|
8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
|
|
not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
|
|
etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
|
|
screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
|
|
--> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
|
|
error messages, printing text, etc.
|
|
8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
|
|
Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
|
|
a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Screen updating:
|
|
7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
|
|
screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
|
|
first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
|
|
- screen_line():
|
|
- insert/delete character stuff.
|
|
- improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
|
|
- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
|
|
dragging the status line with the mouse).
|
|
- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
|
|
waiting for a character.
|
|
8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
|
|
an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
|
|
'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
|
|
7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scrolling:
|
|
8 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
|
|
6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
|
|
- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
|
|
Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
|
|
windows.
|
|
7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
|
|
one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
|
|
looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
|
|
- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
|
|
up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
|
|
(Goldfarb)
|
|
- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
|
|
bound windows.
|
|
- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
|
|
be bound by regexp searches
|
|
- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
|
|
- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
|
|
fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
|
|
of lines but not with a single line).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Autoconf:
|
|
8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
|
|
8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
|
|
Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
|
|
- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
|
|
system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
|
|
- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
|
|
- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
|
|
- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Perl interface:
|
|
8 Rename typemap file to something else?
|
|
7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
|
|
7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
|
|
6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shared libraries:
|
|
6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
|
|
:libload internal-name libname
|
|
:libunload internal-name
|
|
:liblist
|
|
:libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
|
|
:libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
|
|
libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
|
|
6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tags:
|
|
9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
|
|
added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
|
|
match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
|
|
the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
|
|
'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
|
|
8 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
|
|
This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
|
|
make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
|
|
would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
|
|
April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
|
|
7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
|
|
number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
|
|
(Flemming Madsen)
|
|
8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
|
|
8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
|
|
to type the tag number directly.
|
|
7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
|
|
window for each tag.
|
|
7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
|
|
7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
|
|
bottom" search message.
|
|
7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
|
|
so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
|
|
before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
|
|
- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
|
|
- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
|
|
- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
|
|
to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
|
|
what you were working on.
|
|
7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
|
|
use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
|
|
Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
|
|
with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
|
|
7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
|
|
:tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
|
|
:tagargs clear
|
|
These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
|
|
matching).
|
|
7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
|
|
There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
|
|
Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
|
|
The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
|
|
7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
|
|
a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
|
|
7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
|
|
the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
|
|
":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
|
|
|
|
|
|
Win32 GUI:
|
|
8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
|
|
the message and input?
|
|
7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
|
|
(Mike McCollister)
|
|
8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
|
|
files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
|
|
changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
|
|
files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
|
|
common part of the path.
|
|
8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
|
|
8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
|
|
gettext and menus work.
|
|
8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
|
|
return in every console.
|
|
Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
|
|
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
|
|
8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
|
|
Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
|
|
8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
|
|
Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
|
|
7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
|
|
Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
|
|
7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
|
|
7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
|
|
7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
|
|
hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
|
|
command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
|
|
prompts.
|
|
7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
|
|
is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
|
|
the file added into an already running Vim.
|
|
7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
|
|
functions to find the window title.
|
|
|
|
|
|
GUI:
|
|
8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
|
|
- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
|
|
normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
|
|
7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
|
|
8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
|
|
6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
|
|
8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
|
|
moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
|
|
9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
|
|
7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
|
|
8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
|
|
current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
|
|
8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
|
|
scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
|
|
specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
|
|
8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
|
|
window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
|
|
8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
|
|
explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
|
|
If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
|
|
running them in separate processes.
|
|
7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
|
|
8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
|
|
to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
|
|
7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
|
|
each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
|
|
is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
|
|
8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
|
|
8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
|
|
select one.
|
|
8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
|
|
8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
|
|
8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
|
|
command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
|
|
portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
|
|
7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
|
|
For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
|
|
menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
|
|
7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
|
|
Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
|
|
7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
|
|
use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
|
|
Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
|
|
the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
|
|
7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
|
|
inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
|
|
7 Should support multi-column menus.
|
|
- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
|
|
right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
|
|
- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
|
|
8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
|
|
6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
|
|
lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
|
|
7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
|
|
7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
|
|
which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
|
|
Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
|
|
7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
|
|
8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
|
|
name can be chosen free.
|
|
7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
|
|
the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
|
|
6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
|
|
GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
|
|
pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
|
|
reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
|
|
the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
|
|
like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
|
|
things.
|
|
7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
|
|
button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
|
|
7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
|
|
simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
|
|
- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
|
|
where it was started from?
|
|
7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
|
|
|
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|
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Autocommands:
|
|
9 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
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'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
|
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- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
|
|
8 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
|
|
swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
|
|
Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
|
|
the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
|
|
8 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
|
|
buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
|
|
7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
|
|
CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
|
|
buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
|
|
changing the buffer name.
|
|
7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
|
|
8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
|
|
Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
|
|
8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
|
|
things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
|
|
difficult).
|
|
7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
|
|
user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
|
|
kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
|
|
8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
|
|
focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
|
|
Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
|
|
7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
|
|
name?
|
|
8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
|
|
And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
|
|
8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
|
|
6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
|
|
handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
|
|
7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
|
|
7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
|
|
<x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
|
|
autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
|
|
match. (Leonard)
|
|
5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
|
|
file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
|
|
trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
|
|
7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
|
|
what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
|
|
file.
|
|
8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
|
|
"unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
|
|
command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
|
|
- Add events to autocommands:
|
|
Error - When an error happens
|
|
NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
|
|
ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
|
|
CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
|
|
different mapping)
|
|
VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
|
|
*Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
|
|
VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
|
|
when exiting isn't a good idea.
|
|
CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
|
|
WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
|
|
CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
|
|
SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
|
|
PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
|
|
- Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
|
|
window title)
|
|
ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
|
|
InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
|
|
the char.
|
|
BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
|
|
putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
|
|
file from CVS).
|
|
BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
|
|
used to do a :preserve for remote files.
|
|
BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
|
|
the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
|
|
that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
|
|
BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
|
|
ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
|
|
changes.
|
|
WinResized - After a window has been resized
|
|
WinClose - Just before closing a window
|
|
- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
|
|
*'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
|
|
'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
|
|
Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
|
|
last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
|
|
Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
|
|
Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
|
|
them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Omni completion:
|
|
- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
|
|
mix it with other kinds of completion).
|
|
- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
|
|
- For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
|
|
Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
|
|
Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
|
|
- Check Readline for its completion interface.
|
|
- Ideas from others:
|
|
http://www.wholetomato.com/
|
|
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
|
|
http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
|
|
or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
|
|
Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
|
|
MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
|
|
explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
|
|
For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
|
|
Uses Perl for C++.
|
|
Uses ctags to find the info:
|
|
ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
|
|
www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
|
|
IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
|
|
and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
|
|
http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
|
|
Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
|
|
Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
|
|
Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
|
|
- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Insert mode completion/expansion:
|
|
- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
|
|
7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
|
|
display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
|
|
7 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
|
|
the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
|
|
"$HOME/tmp"
|
|
8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
|
|
with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
|
|
9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
|
|
the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
|
|
(Webb)
|
|
8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
|
|
- ignore/match case
|
|
- different characters than 'iskeyword'
|
|
8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
|
|
"." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
|
|
Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
|
|
When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
|
|
Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
|
|
defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
|
|
8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
|
|
7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
|
|
text does: www.textware.com
|
|
8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
|
|
completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
|
|
"foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
|
|
Should work for C++ and Java.
|
|
Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
|
|
7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
|
|
7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
|
|
instead of words.
|
|
8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
|
|
8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
|
|
Requires remembering a number of insertions.
|
|
8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
|
|
Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
|
|
- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
|
|
header files. (Andri Moell)
|
|
- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
|
|
'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
|
|
wildcards in the file name)?
|
|
- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
|
|
- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
|
|
- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
|
|
be in another file).
|
|
- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
|
|
- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
|
|
- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
|
|
(e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
|
|
- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
|
|
- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
|
|
- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
|
|
- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Command line editing:
|
|
7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
|
|
line.
|
|
8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
|
|
functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
|
|
completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
|
|
- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
|
|
lines wraps to start of line).
|
|
- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
|
|
on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
|
|
disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
|
|
into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
|
|
- Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
|
|
Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
|
|
cmdwin does now already.
|
|
- Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
|
|
mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
|
|
- To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
|
|
cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
|
|
that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
|
|
- Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
|
|
getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
|
|
and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
|
|
Problems:
|
|
- Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
|
|
- Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
|
|
- Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
|
|
- Normal: no CTRL-W commands
|
|
- Normal: no ":" commands?
|
|
- Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
|
|
- where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
|
|
character in first column?
|
|
- Implementation ideas:
|
|
- Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
|
|
- curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
|
|
- never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
|
|
- sync undo after entering a command line?
|
|
- use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
|
|
Mode.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Command line completion:
|
|
8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
|
|
8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
|
|
file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
|
|
8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
|
|
them with the optional part inside [].
|
|
8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
|
|
":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
|
|
7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
|
|
edited. (Sven Guckes)
|
|
- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
|
|
- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
|
|
current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
|
|
8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
|
|
message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
|
|
7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
|
|
file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
|
|
- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
|
|
identifiers (Webb).
|
|
8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
|
|
would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
|
|
7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
|
|
Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
|
|
- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
|
|
Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
|
|
- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
|
|
command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
|
|
Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Command line history:
|
|
- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
|
|
character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
|
|
command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
|
|
completely resulted from one mapping.
|
|
- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
|
|
so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Insert mode:
|
|
9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
|
|
the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
|
|
(Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
|
|
8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
|
|
"a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
|
|
Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
|
|
"<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
|
|
":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
|
|
8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
|
|
the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
|
|
same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
|
|
7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
|
|
character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
|
|
- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
|
|
9 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
|
|
7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
|
|
appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
|
|
- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
|
|
character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
|
|
also for characters that wrap to the next line.
|
|
Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
|
|
Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
|
|
inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
|
|
- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
|
|
Normal mode.
|
|
- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
|
|
value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
|
|
are used.
|
|
- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
|
|
- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
|
|
- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
|
|
|
|
|
|
'cindent', 'smartindent':
|
|
9 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
|
|
char * veryLongName =
|
|
"very long string"
|
|
Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
|
|
8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
|
|
8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
|
|
long_type foo =
|
|
value;
|
|
8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
|
|
too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
|
|
Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
|
|
8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
|
|
func(
|
|
new String[] {
|
|
"asdf",
|
|
"asdf"
|
|
}
|
|
);
|
|
8 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
|
|
(Chow Loong Jin)
|
|
namespace {
|
|
int
|
|
func(int arg) {
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
|
|
func( arg1
|
|
, arg2
|
|
, arg3
|
|
);
|
|
7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
|
|
func(
|
|
int x) // indent like "(4"
|
|
{
|
|
if (a
|
|
&& b) // indent like "(0"
|
|
9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
|
|
if (a)
|
|
{
|
|
if (b)
|
|
{
|
|
// {
|
|
}
|
|
} <-- this is indented incorrect
|
|
Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
|
|
a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
|
|
findmatchlimit().
|
|
- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
|
|
indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
|
|
7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
|
|
- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
|
|
line).
|
|
- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
|
|
- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
|
|
comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
|
|
- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
|
|
looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
|
|
- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
|
|
code), unless the line starts with "*".
|
|
- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
|
|
- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
|
|
(indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
|
|
8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
|
|
'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
|
|
matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
|
|
- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
|
|
- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
|
|
lines start with "\item".
|
|
- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
|
|
/* here is a comment that
|
|
is just autoindented, and
|
|
nothing else */
|
|
- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
|
|
7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
|
|
continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
|
|
indents.
|
|
'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
|
|
when the indent remains the same or increases.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Java:
|
|
8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
|
|
Odendahl?
|
|
8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
|
|
"[i" commands and friends.
|
|
- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
|
|
(Jason)
|
|
- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
|
|
searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
|
|
|
|
|
|
'comments':
|
|
8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
|
|
like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
|
|
Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
|
|
when it's "#" or "//".
|
|
Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
|
|
while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
|
|
7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
|
|
When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
|
|
7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
|
|
6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
|
|
complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
|
|
regexp is used.
|
|
8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
|
|
when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Virtual edit:
|
|
8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
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7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
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Text objects:
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8 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
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8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
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8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
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(Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
|
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8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
|
|
characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
|
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use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
|
|
'matchpairs'?
|
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8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
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7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
|
|
possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
|
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8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
|
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changing the starting position in oap->start.
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8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
|
|
space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
|
|
the end of the line or before a ".".
|
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7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
|
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deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
|
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7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
|
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(instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
|
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6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
|
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5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
|
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example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
|
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Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
|
|
cursor is on.
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Select mode:
|
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8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
|
|
backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
|
|
7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
|
|
See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
|
|
7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
|
|
- Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
|
|
contains 'C' or 'A'.
|
|
- Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
|
|
normal_cmd().
|
|
- remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
|
|
- Typing text replaces the selection.
|
|
|
|
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|
Visual mode:
|
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8 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
|
|
selection, if possible.
|
|
- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
|
|
behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
|
|
is in the top line.
|
|
- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
|
|
When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
|
|
characters.
|
|
8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
|
|
text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
|
|
where needed.
|
|
7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
|
|
"3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
|
|
7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
|
|
of each selected line.
|
|
8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
|
|
8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
|
|
When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
|
|
other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
|
|
8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
|
|
Ben Godfrey)
|
|
7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
|
|
receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
|
|
7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
|
|
a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
|
|
7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
|
|
Young is working on this)
|
|
7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
|
|
When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
|
|
spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
|
|
8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
|
|
Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
|
|
7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
|
|
stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
|
|
option!
|
|
7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
|
|
that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
|
|
part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
|
|
position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
|
|
Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
|
|
the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
|
|
without changing the column.
|
|
6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
|
|
7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
|
|
current buffer.
|
|
7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
|
|
6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
|
|
before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
|
|
6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
|
|
6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
|
|
right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
|
|
or other special character.
|
|
6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
|
|
|
|
|
|
More advanced repeating commands:
|
|
- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
|
|
7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
|
|
the command line so that it can be repeated?
|
|
- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
|
|
- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
|
|
"c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
|
|
"y." will repeat last yank.
|
|
"c2." will repeat the last but one change?
|
|
Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
|
|
and/or pick an older command.
|
|
- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mappings and Abbreviations:
|
|
8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
|
|
used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
|
|
Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
|
|
8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
|
|
7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
|
|
This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
|
|
8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
|
|
last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
|
|
8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
|
|
7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
|
|
8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
|
|
entering search strings.
|
|
8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
|
|
abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
|
|
not the <Space>.
|
|
8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
|
|
(?) work.
|
|
8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
|
|
that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
|
|
not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
|
|
7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
|
|
7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
|
|
unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
|
|
6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
|
|
abbreviations are to be used.
|
|
- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
|
|
example, for a mouse escape sequence:
|
|
:mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
|
|
- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
|
|
:map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
|
|
:map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
|
|
:map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
|
|
Or implicit:
|
|
:map q <Register>d<Number>$
|
|
- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
|
|
a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
|
|
that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
|
|
- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
|
|
not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
|
|
- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
|
|
mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
|
|
6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
|
|
mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
|
|
that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
|
|
hit another character.
|
|
- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
|
|
non-replace Insert mode?
|
|
- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
|
|
- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
|
|
- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
|
|
for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
|
|
- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
|
|
<M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
|
|
- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
|
|
are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
|
|
- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
|
|
- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
|
|
":freekeys".
|
|
- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incsearch:
|
|
- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
|
|
- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
|
|
anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
|
|
up every time.
|
|
- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
|
|
folds when going to another line.
|
|
- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
|
|
cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
|
|
When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
|
|
(or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
|
|
- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
|
|
key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Searching:
|
|
9 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
|
|
8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
|
|
"g?" is already used for rot13.
|
|
The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
|
|
Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
|
|
Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
|
|
9 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
|
|
matching text.
|
|
8 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
|
|
search for a phrase.
|
|
8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
|
|
for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
|
|
Perl does it this way:
|
|
$paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
|
|
Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
|
|
inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
|
|
\@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
|
|
8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
|
|
to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
|
|
number?
|
|
8 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
|
|
variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
|
|
before each line.
|
|
7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
|
|
http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
|
|
8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
|
|
chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
|
|
7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
|
|
the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
|
|
stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
|
|
Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
|
|
7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
|
|
search(). (Brett)
|
|
7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
|
|
when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
|
|
7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
|
|
"\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
|
|
8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
|
|
lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
|
|
8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
|
|
line.
|
|
7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
|
|
example.
|
|
8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
|
|
#if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
|
|
- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
|
|
should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
|
|
Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
|
|
Alternative: use matchit.vim
|
|
8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
|
|
8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
|
|
the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
|
|
This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
|
|
7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
|
|
"\d".
|
|
7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
|
|
\%<C-M>.
|
|
8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
|
|
":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
|
|
8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
|
|
Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
|
|
8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
|
|
commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
|
|
Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
|
|
search pattern.
|
|
- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
|
|
of the windows.
|
|
- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
|
|
Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
|
|
- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
|
|
Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
|
|
Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
|
|
too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
|
|
8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
|
|
Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
|
|
- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
|
|
Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
|
|
8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
|
|
This works for all places where a regexp is used.
|
|
Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
|
|
- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
|
|
i ignore case
|
|
I use case
|
|
p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
|
|
v use Vi regexp syntax
|
|
f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
|
|
F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
|
|
Perl uses these too:
|
|
e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
|
|
m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
|
|
o compile only once (Perl only)
|
|
s single line expression (we don't need it)
|
|
x extended regexp (we don't need it)
|
|
When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
|
|
following command.
|
|
Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
|
|
- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
|
|
pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
|
|
for search string)?
|
|
7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
|
|
characters. See C't article, August 1997.
|
|
- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
|
|
equivalent (for Unix filenames).
|
|
- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
|
|
as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
|
|
- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
|
|
- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
|
|
they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
|
|
a for the next file in the argument list
|
|
f for file in the buffer list
|
|
w for file edited in a window.
|
|
e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
|
|
":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
|
|
before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
|
|
Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
|
|
- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
|
|
7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
|
|
first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
|
|
7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
|
|
search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
|
|
specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
|
|
the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
|
|
6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
|
|
effects.
|
|
7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
|
|
newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
|
|
[not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
|
|
7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
|
|
Also ":dselect".
|
|
|
|
|
|
Undo:
|
|
9 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
|
|
in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
|
|
when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
|
|
9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
|
|
not.
|
|
8 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
|
|
and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
|
|
time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
|
|
8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
|
|
state, so that you can jump to it.
|
|
8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
|
|
Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
|
|
timestamp?
|
|
Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
|
|
indent?
|
|
8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
|
|
undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
|
|
was changed outside of Vim.
|
|
Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
|
|
storing the differences.
|
|
Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
|
|
of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
|
|
- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
|
|
trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
|
|
- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
|
|
possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
|
|
etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
|
|
8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
|
|
sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
|
|
word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
|
|
Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
|
|
8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
|
|
only remember the lines that really changed.
|
|
7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
|
|
version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
|
|
change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
|
|
to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
|
|
- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
|
|
And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
|
|
- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
|
|
number of undo levels (with confirmation).
|
|
- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
|
|
When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
|
|
[-99].
|
|
- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
|
|
- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
|
|
- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
|
|
undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
|
|
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Buffer list:
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7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
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Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
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this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
|
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current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
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8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
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Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
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8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
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inode too.
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7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
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creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
|
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number in use plus one?).
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7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
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asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
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- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
|
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file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
|
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- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
|
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buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
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7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
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E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
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7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
|
|
names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
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8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
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8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
|
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should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
|
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7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
|
|
internal use and for when executing an external program?
|
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8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
|
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'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
|
|
CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
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Swap (.swp) files:
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8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
|
|
directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
|
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there are short file name problems.
|
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8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
|
|
file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
|
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8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
|
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8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
|
|
dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
|
|
twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
|
|
file the same as the actual file?
|
|
Use the code for resolve()?
|
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7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
|
|
field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
|
|
7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
|
|
else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
|
|
Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
|
|
enough room.
|
|
7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
|
|
or /var/preserve.
|
|
- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
|
|
the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
|
|
- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
|
|
'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
|
|
- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
|
|
original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
|
|
need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
|
|
cached list of which line is where.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Viminfo:
|
|
7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
|
|
because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
|
|
else's viminfo file.
|
|
8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
|
|
root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
|
|
Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
|
|
8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
|
|
name. (Schild)
|
|
8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
|
|
8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
|
|
8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
|
|
8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
|
|
"File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
|
|
Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
|
|
this?
|
|
7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
|
|
7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
|
|
directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
|
|
6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
|
|
Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
|
|
same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
|
|
- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
|
|
"last visited files" and select one to jump to.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Modelines:
|
|
8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
|
|
option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
|
|
Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
|
|
- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
|
|
would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
|
|
'shiftwidth'.
|
|
- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
|
|
such as 'encoding'.
|
|
- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
|
|
another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
|
|
modeline setting.
|
|
- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
|
|
no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
|
|
- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
|
|
.cpp files.
|
|
- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
|
|
characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
|
|
- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
|
|
or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sessions:
|
|
8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
|
|
directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
|
|
7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
|
|
session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
|
|
8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
|
|
"options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
|
|
8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
|
|
their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
|
|
default value.
|
|
7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
|
|
Malecki)
|
|
7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Options:
|
|
7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
|
|
restore it after the command has executed.
|
|
8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
|
|
options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
|
|
also be supported.
|
|
8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
|
|
that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
|
|
'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
|
|
7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
|
|
7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
|
|
quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
|
|
Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
|
|
|
|
|
|
External commands:
|
|
8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
|
|
and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
|
|
4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
|
|
and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
|
|
-f).
|
|
4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
|
|
4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
|
|
Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
|
|
4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Multiple Windows:
|
|
7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
|
|
8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
|
|
And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
|
|
7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
|
|
to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
|
|
select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
|
|
7 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
|
|
then fill it with something. ":popen"?
|
|
7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
|
|
several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
|
|
6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
|
|
":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
|
|
window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
|
|
shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
|
|
7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
|
|
communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
|
|
multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
|
|
too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
|
|
- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
|
|
automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
|
|
Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
|
|
to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Marks:
|
|
8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
|
|
8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
|
|
position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
|
|
8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
|
|
8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
|
|
Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
|
|
8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
|
|
of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
|
|
the mark was set.
|
|
7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
|
|
matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
|
|
to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
|
|
":browse marks"?
|
|
6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
|
|
7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
|
|
text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
|
|
7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
|
|
Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
|
|
7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
|
|
command).
|
|
7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
|
|
- replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
|
|
line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
|
|
- inserting/deleting characters in a line.
|
|
5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
|
|
mappings.
|
|
6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
|
|
unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
|
|
Highlight the marked lines somehow.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Digraphs:
|
|
7 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
|
|
Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
|
|
- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
|
|
characters?
|
|
8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
|
|
7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
|
|
least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Writing files:
|
|
- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
|
|
systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
|
|
shortname conversion.
|
|
8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
|
|
8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
|
|
file.
|
|
8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
|
|
applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
|
|
directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
|
|
6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
|
|
'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
|
|
6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
|
|
E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
|
|
6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
|
|
Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
|
|
8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
|
|
losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
|
|
7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
|
|
(file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
|
|
7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
|
|
often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
|
|
flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
|
|
waiting for a character to be typed).
|
|
8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
|
|
line of the window, like "[time]".
|
|
Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
|
|
Automatic and/or with a command.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Substitute:
|
|
8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
|
|
"\%uabcd" in search pattern.
|
|
8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
|
|
":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
|
|
- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
|
|
- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
|
|
8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
|
|
Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
|
|
- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
|
|
:s///N substitutes N times.
|
|
- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
|
|
":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
|
|
any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
|
|
7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
|
|
range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
|
|
last line column 5.
|
|
5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
|
|
operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
|
|
possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
|
|
(Stanislav Sitar)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mouse support:
|
|
8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
|
|
7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
|
|
8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
|
|
yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
|
|
out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
|
|
- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
|
|
- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
|
|
the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
|
|
- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
|
|
- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Argument list:
|
|
6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
|
|
When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
|
|
(like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
|
|
6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Registers:
|
|
8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
|
|
8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
|
|
around in windows.
|
|
8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
|
|
blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
|
|
for every line.
|
|
6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
|
|
previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
|
|
register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
|
|
- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
|
|
lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
|
|
- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
|
|
leader when line wraps?
|
|
- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
|
|
line in the range.
|
|
- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
|
|
to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
|
|
8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
|
|
How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Debug mode:
|
|
7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
|
|
8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
|
|
8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
|
|
7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
|
|
when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
|
|
the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
|
|
":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
|
|
7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
|
|
7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Various improvements:
|
|
7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
|
|
the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
|
|
Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
|
|
"format/chinese.vim" plugin.
|
|
The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
|
|
Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
|
|
(2005 Nov 24)
|
|
Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
|
|
7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
|
|
("vatv").
|
|
7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
|
|
next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
|
|
8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
|
|
the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
|
|
7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
|
|
do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
|
|
from the 'makeprg'?
|
|
- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
|
|
Govindachar)
|
|
7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
|
|
first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
|
|
7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
|
|
window as a buffer-tab selection.
|
|
8 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
|
|
7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
|
|
Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
|
|
For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
|
|
More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
|
|
Assign them to a v: variable?
|
|
7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
|
|
to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
|
|
8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
|
|
all changes are gone.
|
|
6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
|
|
8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
|
|
Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
|
|
Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
|
|
in this Vim.
|
|
8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
|
|
if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
|
|
8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
|
|
them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
|
|
have it apply to the following command.
|
|
8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
|
|
CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
|
|
end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
|
|
To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
|
|
7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
|
|
path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
|
|
7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
|
|
etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
|
|
these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
|
|
without modifier (unless mapped).
|
|
6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
|
|
8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
|
|
9 Support ACLs on more systems.
|
|
7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
|
|
highlighted differently.
|
|
7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
|
|
the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
|
|
(truncated to fit in the space).
|
|
7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
|
|
8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
|
|
8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
|
|
Visual mode.
|
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7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
|
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regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
|
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7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
|
|
and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
|
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7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
|
|
7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
|
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7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
|
|
8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
|
|
8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
|
|
feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
|
|
non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
|
|
CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
|
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8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
|
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6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
|
|
interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
|
|
Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
|
|
8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
|
|
8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
|
|
and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
|
|
then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
|
|
does something like this. (Shah)
|
|
7 Use growarray for replace stack.
|
|
7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
|
|
outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
|
|
3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
|
|
7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
|
|
buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
|
|
7 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
|
|
than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
|
|
- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
|
|
- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
|
|
- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
|
|
- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
|
|
7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
|
|
(like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
|
|
- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
|
|
dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
|
|
- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
|
|
- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
|
|
turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
|
|
- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
|
|
call "play newbeep.au").
|
|
- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
|
|
less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
|
|
(Bhatt).
|
|
- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
|
|
blockwise registers).
|
|
- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
|
|
timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
|
|
- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
|
|
of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
|
|
mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
|
|
noticeable.
|
|
- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
|
|
7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
|
|
Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
|
|
- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
|
|
(first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
|
|
paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
|
|
starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
|
|
paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
|
|
8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
|
|
auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
|
|
8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
|
|
next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
|
|
continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
|
|
regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
|
|
":set autoformat=\\s$".
|
|
- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
|
|
- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
|
|
7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
|
|
end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
|
|
- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
|
|
not in column 1.
|
|
6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
|
|
stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
|
|
7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
|
|
- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
|
|
- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
|
|
:redir #> bufname
|
|
:redir #>> bufname (append)
|
|
- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
|
|
redirection was active.
|
|
- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
|
|
":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
|
|
Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
|
|
6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
|
|
console? (Klaus Hast)
|
|
- Add :delcr command:
|
|
*:delcr*
|
|
:[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
|
|
ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
|
|
used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
|
|
A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
|
|
[range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
|
|
lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
|
|
- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
|
|
- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
|
|
characters from 'isprint'.
|
|
- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
|
|
- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
|
|
Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
|
|
- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
|
|
may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
|
|
general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
|
|
- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
|
|
- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
|
|
Nvi).
|
|
- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
|
|
SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
|
|
7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
|
|
- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
|
|
Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
|
|
6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
|
|
- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
|
|
changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
|
|
macro).
|
|
- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
|
|
- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
|
|
expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
|
|
- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
|
|
8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
|
|
- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
|
|
- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
|
|
- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
|
|
if it is not the first or last window.
|
|
- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
|
|
there is one) instead of the file itself.
|
|
7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
|
|
nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
|
|
Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
|
|
- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
|
|
- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
|
|
the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
|
|
many percent down the windows).
|
|
- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
|
|
line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
|
|
line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
|
|
Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
|
|
- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
|
|
'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
|
|
- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
|
|
change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
|
|
- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
|
|
- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
|
|
- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
|
|
passwd file? (Antwerpen)
|
|
8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
|
|
":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
|
|
sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
|
|
How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
|
|
mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
|
|
- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
|
|
t_bs is set? (Webb)
|
|
- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
|
|
counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
|
|
- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
|
|
cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
|
|
(Webb).
|
|
- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
|
|
column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
|
|
- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
|
|
hex codes like 0xff).
|
|
- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
|
|
executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
|
|
the last TYPED command.
|
|
- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
|
|
- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
|
|
- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
|
|
should also work?
|
|
- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
|
|
8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
|
|
(starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
|
|
name.
|
|
- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
|
|
trailing '.'.
|
|
- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
|
|
file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
|
|
find_file_in_path().
|
|
- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
|
|
CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
|
|
- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
|
|
- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
|
|
form usable by Vim on the current machine.
|
|
- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
|
|
a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
|
|
- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
|
|
character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
|
|
several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
|
|
- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
|
|
- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
|
|
- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
|
|
to the minimal size.
|
|
- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
|
|
- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
|
|
- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
|
|
- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
|
|
- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
|
|
- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
|
|
entered)?
|
|
- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
|
|
as an output filter.
|
|
- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
|
|
- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
|
|
- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
|
|
- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
|
|
- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
|
|
- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
|
|
lines.
|
|
- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
|
|
8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
|
|
hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
|
|
to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
|
|
or in octal.
|
|
7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
|
|
easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
|
|
- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
|
|
After ":w !command" a wait_return?
|
|
- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
|
|
- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
|
|
insert line command).
|
|
- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
|
|
- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
|
|
- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
|
|
- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
|
|
- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
|
|
and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
|
|
- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
|
|
yet.
|
|
- Implement 'redraw' option.
|
|
- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
|
|
'}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
|
|
7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
|
|
implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
|
|
Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
|
|
I/O.
|
|
8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
|
|
do it.
|
|
- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
|
|
- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
|
|
delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
|
|
- Add text justification option.
|
|
- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
|
|
- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
|
|
off".
|
|
- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
|
|
- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
|
|
- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
|
|
gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
|
|
- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
|
|
- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
|
|
- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
|
|
- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
|
|
commands.
|
|
- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
|
|
- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
|
|
- :table command (Webb)
|
|
- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
|
|
- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
|
|
- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
|
|
- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
|
|
- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
|
|
- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
|
|
(Demirel).
|
|
- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
|
|
- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
|
|
for use in macro's and the like.
|
|
- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
|
|
working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
|
|
- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
|
|
":set all". ":r :set all"?
|
|
- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
|
|
result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
|
|
a window to become smaller (Webb).
|
|
- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
|
|
proportionally (Webb).
|
|
- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
|
|
mkopttab to make option table?
|
|
- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
|
|
file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
|
|
- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
|
|
(Haritsis).
|
|
- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
|
|
instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
|
|
- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
|
|
cursor?
|
|
- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
|
|
- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
|
|
5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
|
|
":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
|
|
8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
|
|
case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
|
|
filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
|
|
~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
|
|
option name.
|
|
8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
|
|
where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
|
|
(Netherton)
|
|
6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
|
|
space after "(", for example.
|
|
5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
|
|
when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
|
|
(Servatius Brandt)
|
|
|
|
|
|
From Elvis:
|
|
- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
|
|
- Add ":alias" command.
|
|
- Search patterns:
|
|
\@ match word under cursor.
|
|
but do:
|
|
\@w match the word under the cursor?
|
|
\@W match the WORD under the cursor?
|
|
8 ":window" command:
|
|
:win + next window (up)
|
|
:win ++ idem, wrapping
|
|
:win - previous window (down)
|
|
:win -- idem, wrapping
|
|
:win nr to window number "nr"
|
|
:win name to window editing buffer "name"
|
|
7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
|
|
program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
|
|
|
|
|
|
From xvi:
|
|
- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
|
|
- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
|
|
|
|
|
|
From vile:
|
|
- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
|
|
- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
|
|
from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Far future and "big" extensions:
|
|
- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
|
|
find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
|
|
like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
|
|
thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
|
|
would also work on MS-Windows.
|
|
- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
|
|
Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
|
|
- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
|
|
between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
|
|
Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
|
|
current layout mirrored.
|
|
- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
|
|
- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
|
|
set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
|
|
- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
|
|
- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
|
|
font in each top-level window.
|
|
- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
|
|
- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
|
|
- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
|
|
- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
|
|
Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
|
|
- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
|
|
windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
|
|
mentioned in the tags file.
|
|
Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
|
|
Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
|
|
- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
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standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
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- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
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lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
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4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
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:g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
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:g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
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POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
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number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
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shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
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:7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
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- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
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are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
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also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
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When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
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empty line would appear.
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vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
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vim: set fo+=n :
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