| *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Jan 23 |
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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 |
| improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by |
| subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able |
| to look for "the next thing to do": |
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| Priority classification: |
| 9 next point release |
| 8 next release |
| 7 as soon as possible |
| 6 soon |
| 5 should be included |
| 4 nice to have |
| 3 consider including |
| 2 maybe not |
| 1 probably not |
| - unclassified |
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| *votes-for-changes* |
| See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should |
| be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. |
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| *known-bugs* |
| -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- |
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| When ":silent" is used mode message is (should) not be displayed. Thus don't |
| set clear_cmdline to clear it. Use separate flag to remember whether mode is |
| currently displayed (and needs to be cleared). |
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| ccomplete: |
| - When an option is set: In completion mode and the user types (identifier) |
| characters, advance to the first match instead of removing the popup menu. |
| If there is no match remove the selection. (Yegappan Lakshmanan) |
| - Complete the longest common match instead of the first match? |
| For all kinds of completions? Configurable? |
| - Window resize when poup is displayed. |
| - When completing something that is a structure, add the "." or "->" right |
| away. How to figure out if it's a pointer or not? |
| - When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file? |
| - Extra info for each entry to show in a tooltip kind of thing. |
| Should use a dictionary for each entry. Fields could be: |
| word the completed word |
| menu menu text (use word when missing) |
| info extra info, to be displayed in balloon (e.g., function args) |
| kind single letter indicating the type of word: |
| v = variable, f = function/method, c = composite (object, |
| struct pointer). |
| - Special mappings for when the popup menu is visible? Would allow for making |
| a specific selection (e.g, methods vs variables). |
| - Provide a function to popup the menu, so that an insert mode mapping can |
| start it (with a specific selection). |
| - !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT and it's ilk are listed in the global completions |
| Can't reproduce it right now... |
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| spelling: |
| - Use runtime/cleanadd script to cleanup .add files. When to invoke it? |
| After deleting a word and some timestamp difference perhaps? |
| - suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase. |
| - Autocommand event for when a spell file is missing. Allows making a plugin |
| that fetches the file over internet. Pattern == language. |
| - Using KEEPCASE flag still allows all-upper word, docs say it doesn't. |
| Don't allow it, because there is no other way to do this. |
| - Implement NOSUGGEST flag (used for obscene words). |
| - Implement NOSPLITSUGS. |
| - Rename COMPOUNDFLAGS to COMPOUNDPATTERN or COMPOUNDRULE? |
| Hunspell now uses COMPOUND with a count. |
| - Check out Hunspell 1.1.3. |
| what does MAXNGRAMSUGS do? |
| See announcement (Nemeth, 5 jan) |
| is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary now that we have flags for affixes? |
| - Look into hungarian dictionary: |
| http://magyarispell.sourceforge.net/hu_HU-1.0.tar.gz |
| - Support flags on a suffix. Used for second level affixes, rare and |
| nocomp. The flags may also be used for compounding. Default is an OR |
| mechanism with the flags of the word. Adding "compset" on the affixes |
| means the compound flags of the word are not used. |
| Instead of "SFX a 0 add/FLAGS ." we could use "SFX a 0 add . /FLAGS" (or |
| support both). |
| - When compounding Hunspell doesn't allow affixes inside the compound word, |
| only before and after it. COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG can be used to allow it. |
| Check Myspell and Aspell if they also work this way. |
| Thus a word + suffix needs a flag that it can't be used with a following |
| compound, and word + prefix can't be after another word in a compound. |
| - Implement COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG. |
| - Support breakpoint character ยท 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to use |
| same wordlist for hyphenation. |
| 8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to |
| obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen) |
| - Finding suggestions with sound folding is slow. Somehow store the |
| sound-folded words and link to the words it comes from? |
| - Also use the spelling dictionary for dictionary completion. |
| - Have "zg" and "zw" report the file that was modified. (Marvin Renich) |
| - Add a command like "zg" that selects one of the files 'spellfile'. |
| - Add a "zug" command that undoes "zg"? Deletes the good word instead of |
| adding a bad word like "zw" would. Use "zuw" to undo "zw"? (Antonio |
| Colombo) |
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| 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. |
| Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. (2005 |
| Nov 24) |
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| Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): |
| - selecting proportional font breaks display |
| - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this. |
| - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt) |
| - Add default key mappings for the command key (Alan Schmitt) |
| use http://macvim.org/OSX/files/gvimrc |
| - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. |
| (Alan Schmitt) |
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| Patch to add a few flags to search(). (Benji Fisher, Nov 29, doc update Dec 1) |
| Also add search???() function that returns list with lnum and col. |
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| Win32: Use the free downloadable compiler 7.1 (2003). Figure out how to do |
| debugging (with Agide?) and describe it. (George Reilly) |
| Try out using the free MS compiler and debugger, using Make_mvc.mak. |
| Try using Visual C++ Express 2005. (Ilya Bobir Dec 20) |
| Disadvantage: Annoying warning messages, requires ..._NO_DEPRECATE, this |
| is not a standard compiler. |
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| Win32: Check that installer puts menu items in "all users" dir when possible, |
| not administrator dir. |
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| CTRL-X CTRL-L only completes from loaded buffers. Make it work for unloaded |
| buffers too? |
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| Autoload: |
| - Add a Vim script in $VIMRUNTIME/tools that takes a file with a list of |
| script names and a help file and produces a script that can be sourced to |
| install the scripts in the user's directories. |
| Use findfile(), so that only file names need to be given: |
| script plugin/myscript.vim |
| script autoload/mylib.vim |
| script autoload/yourlib.vim |
| helpfile doc/myscript.txt |
| For the "helpfile" item ":helptags" is run. |
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| Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? Otherwise: ":sunmap", so that Visual mode |
| mappings for normal keys can be removed from Select mode. |
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| When expanding on the command line, recognize shell commands, such as ":!cmd". |
| Complete command names by searching in $PATH. When completing file names |
| escape special characters ";&<>(){}". (Adri Verhoef) |
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| Are there more commands where v:swapcommand can be set to something useful? |
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| Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup? |
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| Awaiting response: |
| - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than |
| the screen. |
| - mblen(NULL, 0) also in Vim 6.3? |
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| PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: |
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| - Omni completion: Understands the programming language and finds matches |
| that make sense. Esp. members of classes/structs. |
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| It's not much different from other Insert-mode completion, use the same |
| mechanism. Use CTRL-X CTRL-O and 'omnifunc'. Set 'omnifunc' in the |
| filetype plugin, define the function in the autoload directory. |
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| Separately develop the completion logic and the UI. When adding UI stuff |
| make it work for all completion methods. |
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| UI: |
| - Complete longest common string first, like 'wildmode' "longest:full". |
| - Add an "auto" mode: after typing a character (or string) completion is |
| done for the longest common string. plugin defines the possible |
| characters/strings. (Martin Stubenschrott) |
| - GUI implementation of the popup menu. |
| - When using tags, show match in preview window (function prototype, |
| struct member, etc.). |
| Or use one window for matches, another for context/info (Doug Kearns, |
| 2005 Sep 13) |
| - Ideas on: http://www.wholetomato.com/ |
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| Completion logic: |
| Use runtime/autoload/{filetype}complete.vim files. |
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| In function arguments suggest variables of expected type. |
| Tags file has "signature" field. |
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| List of completions is a Dictionary with items: |
| complist[0]['text'] = completion text |
| complist[0]['type'] = type of completion (e.g. function, var, arg) |
| complist[0]['help'] = help text (e.g. function declaration) |
| complist[0]['helpfunc'] = function that shows help text |
| etc. |
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| Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include the "." and "->" to restrict the |
| number of possible matches? (Flemming Madsen) |
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| In general: Besides completion, figure out the type of a variable |
| and use it for information. |
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| Ideas from others: |
| 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 |
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| UI: popup menu with list of alternatives, icon to indicate type |
| optional popup window with info about selected alternative |
| Unrelated settings are changed (e.g. 'mousemodel'). |
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| 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. |
| Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html |
| Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: |
| - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an |
| interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a |
| Vim-script list. |
| - 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. |
| - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running |
| ctags, merging the tags of the changed file. |
| "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products: |
| Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net |
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| - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match? |
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| - UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info. |
| When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo) |
| info, make a new branch. |
| To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text |
| sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order. |
| Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +. |
| Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five |
| minutes ago). (David Schweikert) |
| To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward |
| again. |
| Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous |
| text state in the tree? |
| Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version? |
| Also: See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the |
| undo info. Needed for when an external tool changes the file. |
| - PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. |
| Use timestamps, 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. For the file use dot and |
| extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp"). |
| 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own |
| split windows. |
| In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages". |
| Use the name of the first buffer in the tab (ignoring the help window, |
| unless it's the only one). Add a number for the window count. |
| First make it work on the console. Use a line of text with highlighting. |
| Then add GUI Tabs for some systems. |
| Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. |
| Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7). |
| Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab. |
| Implementation: keep the list of windows as-is. When switching to another |
| tab make the buffers in the current windows hidden, save the window |
| layout, buildup the other window layout and fill with buffers. |
| Need to be able to search the windows in inactive tabs, e.g. for the |
| quickfix window. |
| Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab? |
| - EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. |
| For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). |
| For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. |
| - 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 |
| - 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. |
| - 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 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) |
| Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters. |
| At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary). |
| 8 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. |
| 8 Searching for a composing character by itself should work. Perhaps "." |
| with a composing char should work too. |
| - Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", |
| "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) |
| - FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed |
| file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. |
| - VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) |
| patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. |
| It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed |
| commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the |
| screen has not yet been allocated with the new size. |
| - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how |
| the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at |
| - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. |
| When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the |
| characters. |
| - Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, 2004 June 27) |
| Other patch from Da Woon Jung, 2005 Jan 16. |
| 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? |
| New patch 2004 Jun 16 |
| 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, |
| set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. |
| Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for |
| underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group |
| instead. |
| Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current |
| line. |
| 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? |
| Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). |
| - When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but |
| the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the |
| word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. |
| - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) |
| - "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by |
| Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) |
| - In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased |
| with \u, \U, etc. |
| 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. |
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| Adjust src/main.aap for installing manpages like in Makefile. |
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| 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. |
| Also: command to search for illegal utf-8 byte sequence? |
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| Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report |
| on MS-Windows. (George Reilly) |
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| Add strtol() to avoid the problems with leading zero causing octal conversion. |
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| Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7) |
| Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal) |
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| Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be several. |
| Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov) |
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| Win32: Patch for Korean IME. (Yusung, 2005 March 21) |
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| When "= evaluation results in a List, use it as a sequence of lines. |
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| Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug |
| 2004). Should also work for 'filetype'. |
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| For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual |
| windows. Example: |
| :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10) |
| :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum) |
| : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr |
| : return getline(lnum) |
| :endfun |
| The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a |
| Virtual window. |
| A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for |
| nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size |
| is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed. |
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| Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by |
| Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6) |
| Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%? |
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| Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, Mac OS/X. |
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| Add extra list of file locations. A bit like the quickfix list, but there is |
| one per window. Can be used with: |
| :ltag list of matching tags, like :tselect |
| Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, Jan 13. |
| Commands to use the location list: |
| :lnext next location |
| :lprevious :lNext previous location |
| :lnfile location in next file |
| :lNfile :lpfile location in previous file |
| :lrewind :lfirst first location |
| :llast last location |
| :ll [N] go to location N (current one if N omitted) |
| :lwindow open window with locations (separate from quickfix window) |
| :lopen open window with locations |
| :lclose close window with locations |
| :llist list locations |
| :lfile read locations from file using 'errorformat' |
| :lgetfile idem, don't jump to first one |
| :lbuffer idem, from current buffer. |
| |
| HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of |
| profiling for Vim script? At least add a function to get the current time in |
| usec. reltime([start, [end]]) |
| reltime().sec == seconds, reltime().usec = microseconds |
| reltime(start) current time relative to [start] |
| echo timestring(reltime(start), 3) (3 is nr of digits after dot) |
| reltime(start, end) difference between start and end |
| Real Profiling: |
| - :profile start /tmp/somefile (append if exists) |
| - :profile pause |
| - :profile resume |
| - :profile stop |
| - per function line |
| - self, Vim and total time (incl system time) |
| - dump results in file on exit or when stopped. |
| |
| Add more tests for all new functionality in Vim 7. Especially new functions. |
| |
| Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul) |
| |
| 'errorformat' docs are a bit unclear. Suggestions by Charles Campbell (2006 |
| Jan 6) |
| Add a flag to check for a match with the next item first? Helps for |
| continuation lines that may contain just about anything. |
| |
| Awaiting updated patches: |
| --- awaiting updated patch --- |
| 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. |
| Autocommands: |
| 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. |
| Update 2004 Sep 6. |
| How does this work? Missing comments. |
| 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 about how to use this. |
| How to get the messages into the .po files? |
| --- did not respond (yet) -- |
| - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav |
| Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31) |
| Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20. |
| 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). |
| Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last |
| line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. |
| 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina |
| (28 feb 2002). |
| 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. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . |
| 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: |
| 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/ ) |
| 7 Make globpath() also work with upwards search. (Brian Medley) |
| 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 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). |
| Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. |
| 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). |
| 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) |
| - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file, |
| the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files. |
| $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for |
| runtime files? |
| Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't |
| exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR |
| - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used. |
| Need to escape backslashes. |
| Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered. |
| - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif |
| and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18). |
| |
| Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work. |
| |
| Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single |
| quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4) |
| |
| |
| Vi incompatibility: |
| 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other |
| marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it |
| is deleted or restored. (Webb) |
| Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. |
| Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' |
| position is one line down. (Veselinovic) |
| 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should |
| make Vim exit. |
| 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line |
| (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). |
| Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. |
| 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips |
| loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument |
| given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) |
| 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but |
| only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag |
| in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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" |
| command was one command. |
| On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last |
| change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo). |
| 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep |
| the ":map" when it's used without arguments? |
| 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. |
| 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. |
| 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a |
| flag in 'cpoptions' for this. |
| 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). |
| 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). |
| 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. |
| 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go |
| to the match with the tag? Option? |
| 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. |
| 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> |
| (Sayre). |
| 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) |
| g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ |
| line 1\ line 2\\ |
| line 2\ line 3\\ |
| . line4/ |
| 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). |
| |
| |
| GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): |
| 8 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops |
| up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL |
| pointer if the menu was never displayed. |
| 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a |
| GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also |
| happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies |
| the minimal window width? |
| 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can |
| be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) |
| 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by |
| appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. |
| |
| GTK+ GUI known bugs: |
| 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. |
| |
| Win32 GUI known bugs: |
| 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 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to |
| mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) |
| 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it |
| appear. (Sami Salonen) |
| 8 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) |
| 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. |
| 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using |
| "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) |
| 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 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: |
| 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 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| |
| |
| Windows 95: |
| 8 Editing a file by it's 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). |
| |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| |
| 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: |
| 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard |
| Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff |
| Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. |
| 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 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear |
| to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) |
| 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. |
| 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) |
| - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. |
| 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. |
| 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. |
| 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 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when |
| scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) |
| 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two |
| seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) |
| 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. |
| 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) |
| 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) |
| |
| |
| "Small" problems: |
| 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. |
| 9 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with |
| 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though |
| the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to |
| check for the buffer to be unmodified. |
| 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the |
| error number, it's not a regular error message. |
| 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 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local |
| and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses |
| a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? |
| 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use |
| 'termencoding'. |
| 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 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. |
| 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 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: |
| use "~/" when possible. |
| 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 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) |
| 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. |
| Remove? (Dan Sharp) |
| 9 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes |
| properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. |
| "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) |
| 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. |
| 9 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use |
| "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained |
| region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. |
| 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with |
| CTRL-C. |
| 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X |
| server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp |
| of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK |
| doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it |
| won't work for GTK anyway. |
| 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error |
| message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. |
| 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 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a |
| flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) |
| 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save |
| "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? |
| 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is |
| always written, even when the original file already exists. |
| 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, |
| nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. |
| 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. |
| 9 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an |
| error number. |
| 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 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. |
| 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 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a |
| thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. |
| 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 interpreted 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) |
| 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends |
| in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (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 '[ 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. |
| 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: |
| - 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. |
| - 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) |
| - 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? |
| - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The |
| access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. |
| - 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. |
| 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. |
| - 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* |
| |
| Documentation: |
| 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. |
| - 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 NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see |
| http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12 |
| 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. |
| |
| |
| Spell checking: |
| 9 Work together with OpenOffice.org to update the wordlists. (Adri Verhoef, |
| Aad Nales) Setup vim-spell maillist? |
| - Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDMAX OR nr of |
| syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file? |
| - COMPOUNDMAX -> COMPOUNDWORDMAX? |
| - 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 COMPOUNDMAX 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 |
| COMPOUNDMAX. |
| - 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. |
| 8 Install spell files with src/main.aap. |
| - 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 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: |
| 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 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. |
| 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. |
| (Noel Henson) |
| 7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----". |
| 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. |
| - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. |
| - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. |
| Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution? |
| - "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": set fold level for a region. |
| - 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: |
| 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). |
| 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) |
| 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 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? |
| 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 and RiscOS 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 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. |
| - 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. |
| - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and |
| multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. |
| - 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 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support |
| different 'encoding' values somehow. |
| - 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. |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. |
| 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". |
| 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. |
| 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 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed |
| (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): |
| :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" |
| 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. |
| 7 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. |
| 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax. |
| 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight. |
| 8 Add more command line completion for :sign. |
| 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 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and |
| ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. |
| 8 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for |
| 'shellslash', for example. |
| - Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer. |
| Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. |
| (Webb) |
| You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them. |
| 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 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles |
| Campbell (2004 Jan 9) |
| http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch |
| Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? |
| When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. |
| When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add |
| the buffer (unlisted). |
| 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'. |
| 8 Add functions: |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? |
| 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. |
| 8 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has |
| previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. |
| 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 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. |
| 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the |
| stack available (separated with '\n'). |
| 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). |
| 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an |
| option for the search path. (Sekera) |
| |
| |
| 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 strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list itself as a |
| character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string). |
| 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. |
| 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? |
| 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? |
| 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when |
| jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? |
| 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. |
| 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on |
| Win16. |
| 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a |
| redraw. |
| 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this |
| function be improved? |
| 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the |
| 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? |
| 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 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 editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the |
| "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was |
| read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating |
| memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 7 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which |
| match that regexp (Tsirkin). |
| 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 "zm" 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: |
| 8 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. |
| Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico |
| Hendriks) |
| 7 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match |
| 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 a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) |
| 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". |
| 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". |
| |
| |
| Security: |
| - nothing at the moment |
| |
| |
| Win32 GUI: |
| 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for |
| the message and input? |
| 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at |
| compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 |
| dynamically? |
| 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 runs 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, RiscOS. |
| - <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. |
| |
| |
| Autocommands: |
| 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. |
| 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. |
| "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". |
| 7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag. |
| 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two |
| things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more |
| difficult). |
| 8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once. |
| 8 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? |
| 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user |
| can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind |
| of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? |
| 8 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event |
| insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a |
| higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. |
| 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? |
| And anything else? |
| 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, ... |
| 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". |
| 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. |
| 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be |
| handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) |
| 7 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c |
| file. |
| 7 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an |
| autocommand event OpenDirectory. |
| 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, |
| <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. 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 |
| InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode |
| ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode |
| CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| BufReadAction - replaces reading a file |
| BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file |
| ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down |
| InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the |
| char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. |
| Set v:char to the character, can be changed. |
| (not triggered when 'paste' is set). |
| 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) |
| WinResized - When a window has been resized |
| - Write the file now and then ('autosave'): |
| *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* |
| 'autosave' 'aw' 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. |
| |
| |
| Insert mode completion/expansion: |
| 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 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 $HOME (with an option?). |
| 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS |
| instead of words. |
| 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. |
| 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). |
| Requires remembering a number of insertions. |
| 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. |
| Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. |
| - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the |
| 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use |
| wildcards in the file name)? |
| - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). |
| - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). |
| - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could |
| be in another file). |
| - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. |
| - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? |
| - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string |
| (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) |
| - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. |
| - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? |
| - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) |
| 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'. |
| - 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 []. |
| 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 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. |
| 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: |
| 9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from |
| viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from |
| other Vim's are not overwritten. |
| - 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. |
| 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a |
| character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. |
| 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': |
| 8 Wrong indent below ? : with (): |
| if ((a ? (b) : c) != 0) |
| aligns with ":". |
| 8 Using "+" part of 'cinoptions' where it's not expected (Alexei Alexandrov): |
| if (a) |
| { |
| } else |
| asdf; |
| 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: |
| Foo::Foo (int one, |
| int two) |
| : something(4) |
| {} |
| 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: |
| Foo::Foo (int one, int two) |
| : something(4), |
| somethingelse(3) |
| {} |
| 9 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) |
| int main () |
| { |
| if (lala) |
| do |
| ++(*lolo); |
| while (lili |
| && lele); |
| lulu; |
| } |
| 9 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) |
| void function(int param) { |
| if (false) |
| return; |
| } |
| 9 brace not indented correctly: |
| case 'c': if (cond) |
| { |
| Should align with "if" in case statement. |
| 7 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching |
| "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && |
| asdf |
| ) |
| 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is |
| too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) |
| 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) |
| func( |
| new String[] { |
| "asdf", |
| "asdf" |
| } |
| ); |
| 7 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): |
| func( |
| int x) // indent like "(4" |
| { |
| if (a |
| && b) // indent like "(0" |
| 8 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) |
| main() { char foo[] = "/*"; |
| /* This is a comment; the indentation of C |
| * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. |
| */ |
| hello |
| 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) |
| if (a) |
| { |
| if (b) |
| { |
| // { |
| } |
| } <-- this is indented incorrect |
| 9 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) |
| (void) MyFancyFunction( |
| argument); |
| - 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? |
| 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. |
| - 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. |
| And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. |
| Also for 'autoindent'. '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. |
| 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the |
| end of the line? |
| 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? |
| |
| |
| Text objects: |
| 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. |
| 8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumedWord and under_scored_word. |
| (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"? |
| 8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte |
| characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all) |
| use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like |
| 'matchpairs'? |
| 8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones. |
| 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it |
| possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. |
| 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 ".". |
| 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" |
| deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) |
| 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph |
| (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). |
| 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. |
| 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For |
| example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. |
| Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the |
| cursor is on. |
| |
| |
| Select mode: |
| 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://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 |
| 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. |
| |
| |
| Visual mode: |
| - 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. |
| 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 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. |
| 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 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". |
| 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 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). |
| 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 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", |
| that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' |
| option. |
| 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". |
| 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character |
| (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for |
| mapping a key to do something and then completion. |
| 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. |
| 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 |
| - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. |
| - 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? |
| - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in |
| <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? |
| - 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 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 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? |
| 6 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow |
| mappings with arguments. |
| - 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: |
| 8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text? |
| "g?" is already used for rot13. |
| Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area. |
| 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: |
| \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\) |
| 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 an 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 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? |
| 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 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. |
| - 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. |
| 7 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. |
| - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. |
| Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) |
| - 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: |
| - 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. |
| - Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's |
| possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with |
| viminfo? |
| - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, |
| undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? |
| |
| |
| Buffer list: |
| 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". |
| Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that |
| this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the |
| current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". |
| 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. |
| Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. |
| 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check |
| inode too. |
| 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When |
| creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest |
| number in use plus one?). |
| 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and |
| asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) |
| - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the |
| file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) |
| - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the |
| buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? |
| 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. |
| E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) |
| 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer |
| names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. |
| 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. |
| 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' |
| should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". |
| 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for |
| internal use and for when executing an external program? |
| |
| |
| Swap (.swp) files: |
| 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 |
| there are short file name problems. |
| 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. |
| 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. |
| 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()? |
| 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 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 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: ". |
| - 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. |
| 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only |
| required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the |
| side effect. |
| 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) |
| |
| |
| 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 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. |
| 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 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 digraph for a character, if it exists. |
| Also the keymap? |
| - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line |
| below/above). |
| - 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'? |
| 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make |
| file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) |
| 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) |
| 7 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. |
| - 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. |
| |
| |
| Crypt and security: |
| 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and |
| mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? |
| |
| |
| 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 [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. |
| - Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list? |
| Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh |
| Govindachar) |
| 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of |
| errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". |
| 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) |
| 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. |
| 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a |
| window as a buffer-tab selection. |
| 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. |
| 7 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". |
| 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). |
| 8 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. |
| 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? |
| 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. |
| 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use |
| regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. |
| 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". |
| 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. |
| 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. |
| 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? |
| 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. |
| 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%"? |
| 8 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? |
| Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one |
| line down, etc. |
| 8 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. |
| Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that |
| are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have |
| to be made for all functions that list something. |
| 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? |
| - Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go |
| back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for |
| jumps). (Webb) Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. |
| 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to |
| the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use |
| "3 g CTRL-^" for this? |
| - 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 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. |
| 9 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another |
| buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. |
| - 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. |
| 7 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The |
| 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". |
| 8 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the |
| builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. Or use a string that starts with "=" |
| in 'formatprg': "=MyFormat()". |
| 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? |
| 8 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of |
| matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) |
| - 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. |
| - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". |
| - 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'. |
| - 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. |
| - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine |
| the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) |
| - 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. |
| - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). |
| - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: |
| "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? |
| - 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 exists, 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 ". |
| - Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with |
| internal scripting language or Perl? |
| - 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"? |
| - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really |
| read-only mode). |
| - 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. |
| - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. |
| - 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 Nvi: |
| - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? |
| - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? |
| - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. |
| 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? |
| - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. |
| 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias: |
| :bg :hide |
| :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) |
| :dis b :ls |
| :Edit fname :split fname |
| :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) |
| :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) |
| :Previous :sprevious |
| :Tag :stag |
| |
| |
| 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 |
| standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). |
| - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five |
| lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. |
| 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: |
| :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. |
| :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. |
| POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, |
| number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags |
| shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: |
| :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list |
| - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes |
| are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but |
| also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. |
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| vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: |
| vim: set fo+=n : |