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*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.1. Last change: 2007 May 12
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
TODO list for Vim *todo*
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":
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
*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|.
*known-bugs*
Patch to make virtcol([123, '$']) do the right thing. (Michael Schaap)
Insert mode completion: CTRL-N and CTRL-P work differently and they both don't
work as expected. (Bernhard Walle, 2007 Feb 27)
When 'rightleft' is set the completion menu is positioned wrong. (Baha-Eddine
MOKADEM)
glob() doesn't work correctly with single quotes and 'shell' set to /bin/sh.
(Adri Verhoef, Charles Campbell 2007 Mar 26)
Splitting quickfix window messes up window layout. (Marius Gedminas, 2007 Apr
25)
Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
(Martin Stubenschrott)
ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q .
Making the German sharp s uppercase doesn't work properly: one character less
is uppercased in "gUe".
Also: latin2 has the same character but it isn't uppercased there.
Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
changed or the window is resized.
Mac: Patch for Mac GUI tabline. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jul 18, Update 2007 Feb)
New update v6 ~/tmp/guitab.v6.diff (Kyle Wheeler)
When 'virtualedit' is set a "p" of a block just past the end of the line
inserts before the cursor. (Engelke)
Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
GTK: 'bsdir' doesn't work. Sometimes get a "gtk critical error".
Moved some code to append file name to further down in gui_gtk.c
gui_mch_browse(), but "last" value of 'bsdir' still doesn't work.
C syntax: "#define x {" The macro should terminate at the end of the line,
not continue in the next line. (Kelvin Lee, 2006 May 24)
C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
Likonen, March 19)
Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
Add v:searchforward variable. Patch by Yakov Lerner, 2006 Nov 18.
Redraw problem in loop. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sep 7)
Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
Use new dutch wordlist for spelling? http://www.opentaal.org/
See remarks from Adri, 2007 Feb 9.
When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
isn't right?
Win32: When 'encoding' is "latin1" 'ignorecase' doesn't work for characters
with umlaut. (Joachim Hofmann) toupper_tab[] and tolower_tab[] are not filled
properly?
Completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and then?
Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include files with
"foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Completion: When 'completeopt' has "longest" and there is one match the
message is "back at original" and typing a char doesn't leave completion mode.
(Igor Prischepoff, 2006 Oct 5)
Completion: When using CTRL-X O and there is only "struct." before the cursor,
typing one char to reduce the matches, then BS completion stops. Should keep
completion if still no less than what we started with.
Completion: don't stop completion when typing a space when completing full
lines? Also when completing file names? Only stop completion when there are
no matches?
After using BS completion only stops when typing a space. Many people want to
stop at non-word characters, e.g., '('. Add an option for this? Or check
vim_iswordc() before calling ins_compl_addleader()?
searchpos() doesn't use match under cursor at start of line. (Viktor
Kojouharov, 2006 Nov 16)
When FEAT_BYTEOFF is defined but FEAT_NETBEANS_INTG is not compiling fails.
Add FEAT_BYTEOFF to the check at line 1180 in feature.h
Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
switch list is noticed:
switch (i)
{
case 1:
foobar:
}
":s" command removes combining characters. (Ron Aaron, 2006 May 17, 2006 Dec 7)
Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
2007 Feb 8)
Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
Sutcliffe says it works well.
Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip also for other
patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
2007 Feb 18)
Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18)
Win32: remote editing doesn't work when the current directory name contains
"[]". (Ivan Tishchenko, 2007 March 1)
Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
Build another diff.exe somehow?
Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
When doing "gvim --remote-tab foo" while gvim is minimized the tab pages line
only shows the current label, not the others.
Problem finding swap file for recovery. (Gautam Iyer, 2006 May 16)
When setting 'keymap' twice the b:keymap_name variable isn't set. (Milan
Berta, 2007 Mar 9) Has something to do with 'iminsert'.
Problem with CursorHoldI? (Max Dyckhoff, 2006 Nov 10)
UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
find_special_key() also has this problem.
In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
":let &shiftwidth = 'asdf'"' doesn't produce an error message.
C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
"zug" reports wrong file. problem with Namebuff? (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2006 Sep
10)
":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
Patch to use xterm mouse codes for screen. (Micah Cowan, 2007 May 8)
Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
Win32: editing remote file d:\a[1]\aa.txt doesn't work. (Liu Yubao, 2006 May
29)
"zw" doesn't appear to work. (Luis A Florit, 2006 Jun 23, 24)
"dw" in a line with one character deletes the line. Vi and nvi don't do this.
Is it intentional or not? (Kjell Arne Rekaa)
Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
if_ruby.c.
Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
it in keep_msg?
More-prompt is skipped when doing this; (Randall W. Morris, Jun 17)
:au
<Space>
b
<Space>
Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
error. Should only happen when there are wildards, not when giving the file
name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
When 'expandtab' is set then a Tab copied for 'copyindent' is expanded to
spaces, even when 'preserveindent' is set. (Alexei Alexandrov, Mar 7)
Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
longer than 2 seconds.
VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
(Zoltan Arpadffy)
input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
name?
getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
":confirm w" does give a prompt when 'readonly' is set, but not when the file
permissions are read-only. Both can be overruled by ":w!" thus it would be
logical to get a prompt for both. (Michael Schaap)
When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
:s/e/E/l not only lists but also shows line number. Is that right?
(Yakov Lerner, 2006 Jul 27)
GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
Jun 5)
Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
When 'bomb' is set or reset the file should be considered modified. (Tony
Mechelynck) Handle like 'endofline'.
Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
Update main.aap for installing on the Mac.
The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
loading all files.
C completion: doesn't work after aa[0]->, where aa is an array of structures.
(W. de Hoog, 2006 Aug 12)
The spellfile plugin checks for a writable "spell" directory. A user may have
a writable runtime directory without a "spell" directory, it could be created
then.
These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
partly. (2006 Dec 7)
In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
reload it then?
New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
previous version.
For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
Linux distributions:
- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
xfree-xterm".
- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
middle?
When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it looses the
connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
Win32: The matchparen plugin doesn't update the match when scrolling with the
mouse wheel. (Ilya Bobir, 2006 Jun 27)
Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
- sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
- setting 'mouse' to "a"
- getting colors in xterm
- compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
GTK: When maximizing Vim the result is slightly smaller, the filler border is
not there, and the "maximize" button is still there. Clicking it again does
give a maximized window. (Darren Hiebert)
Problem is that gui_mch_set_text_area_pos() is invoked to change the text area
size, which causes the toplevel window to resize. When doing this while the
size is already right the filler remains there.
Detect using the maximize button (GdkWindowState bit
GDK_WINDOW_STATE_MAXIMIZED) and set it again?
Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
Dara, 2006 June 21)
After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
about this.
'thesaurus' doesn't work when 'infercase' is set. (Mohsin, 2006 May 30)
There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
error and stop using the connection to the server.
Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
check the result of has("patch13").
":py" asks for an argument, ":py asd" then gives the error that ":py" isn't
implemented. Should already happen for ":py".
Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
Win32 GUI: confirm() with zero default should not have a choice selected.
Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
GTK GUI: When the completion popup menu is used scrolling another window by
the scrollbar is OK, but using the scroll wheel it behaves line <Enter>.
"cit" used on <foo></foo> deletes <foo>. Should not delete anything and start
insertion, like "ci'"' does on "". (Michal Bozon)
Allow more than 3 ":match" items.
The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
be only one.
It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
the function name before resolving it to a number?
let d = {}
fun! d.foo()
echo "here"
endfun
call d.foo(9)
Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
only set after Visual moded is ended.
Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
When pattern for ":sort" is empty, use last search pattern. Allows trying out
the pattern first. (Brian McKee)
Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
Jan 1)
Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update Apr 28)
Patch for improving regexp speed by not freeing memory. (Alexei Alexandrov,
2007 Feb 6)
xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
Xterm 224 supports it!
Omni completion takes the wrong structure for variable arguments. (Bill
McCarthy, 2007 Feb 18)
When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
Completing ":echohl" argument should include "None". (Ori Avtalion)
Vim 7.2:
- Search offset doesn't work for multibyte character. Patch from Yukihiro
Nakadaira, 2006 Jul 18.
Changes the offset from counting bytes to counting characters.
- Rename the tutor files from tutor.gr.* to tutor.el.*. Greece vs Greek.
Make all tutor files available in utf-8.
- Remove ! for ":cgetfile" and ":lgetfile". (patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan,
2007 Mar 9)
- Add blowfish encryption. Openssl has an implementation. Also by Paul
Kocher (LGPL), close to original. Mohsin also has some ideas.
Take four bytes and turn them into unsigned to avoid byte-order problems.
Need to buffer up to 7 bytes to align on 8 byte boundaries.
- Rename doc/sql.vim doc/ft_sql.vim.
- Change "command-line" to "[Command Line]" for the command line buffer
name in ex_window().
- Move including fcntl.h to vim.h, before O_NOFOLLOW, and remove it from all
.c files.
- ":{range}source": source the lines from the file.
You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
Patches:
- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
21)
- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
patch May 10)
- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
Arnold, 2006 May 22)
- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
(Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
character at a time?
- gettabvar() and settabvar() functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2006 Sep 8)
- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Awaiting updated patches:
9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
New patch 2004 Jun 16
- selecting proportional font breaks display
- UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
- Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
- With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
(Alan Schmitt)
- remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
- when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
'termencoding'?
9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
be used instead?
8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
Update 2004 Sep 6.
How does this work? Missing comments.
- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
(28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
for multi-byte characters.
- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
been given values.
Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
with an ESC sequence.
xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
<Esc>]12;?<Bel>
Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
8 Add functions:
gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Update 2004 Sep 10
Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
Search in 'runtimepath'?
More docs needed about how to use this.
How to get the messages into the .po files?
confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
(2003 May 13)
raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
useful for interactive things or completion.
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 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
(uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
7 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)
- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Vi incompatibility:
- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
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 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:
9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
creating a label?
8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
blocked for now.
Win32 GUI known bugs:
- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
the screen.
8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
the wide functions.
8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
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 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:
- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
(Phillipps)
GUI:
9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
of where it is processing the output.
Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
doesn't work.
8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
still translated.
8 Add menu separators for Amiga, 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. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
write a file.
9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
Make this work like in Win32 console.
Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
key code. Use a translation table?
9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
8 Use DJGPP 2.03.
8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
8 setlocale() is bogus.
8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
Windows 95 system!
8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
"[New file]".
7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
that is supported?
8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
Briscoe)
MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
gen_expand_wildcards().
8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
Wagner.
8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
a good fallback, thus use:
$HOME
$HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
$USERPROFILE
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
$ALLUSERSPROFILE
$SYSTEMDRIVE\
C:\
8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
Should work like in the GUI version.
8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
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:
- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
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.
8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2006 Sept 28)
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.
8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
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:
- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
8 When disabling FEAT_CMDL_COMPL compilation fails. Would need to avoid
using parse_compl_arg() in eval.c and uc_scan_attr().
9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
edit the file as a help file.
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 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
'termencoding'.
- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
using the horizontal scrollbar.
7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
invocations belong together.
8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
UnxUtils.zip archive.
Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
Briscoe says it's not as good.
8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
an allocated structure?
6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
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 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 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
is a multi-byte character.
8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
always written, even when the original file already exists.
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 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
one.
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 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
(e.g., ":w").
8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
"-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
for ">>".
8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
script in do_cmdline().
8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
changes.
8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
check for file marks. This can be slow.
7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
needed.
Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
to skip catch_signals()?
9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
text?
8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
--> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
"screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
in the list?
8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
instead of on button down.
8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
reaching the end of the available buffer.
Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
May 14)
8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
character is typed.
8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
cygwin bash.
7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
Remember flags for backreferences.
7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
that contain a '$' after all have been found.
8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
"dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
"initdir" is the default path to be used.
7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
that the user knows he has to delete the files.
7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
<SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
files. (McCollister)
Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
"xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
worked around with a delay.
- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
character gets the highlighting.
- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
(Jennings)
- 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 $LC_CTYPE to
"en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
:nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
in the vimrc file to be lost.
- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
"Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
*extensions-improvements*
Didn't make it into Vim 7.0:
- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
http://clewn.sf.net.
And the idevim plugin/script.
To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
other window.
Wishes for NetBeans commands:
- make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
- send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
in terminal mode.
- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ Eric Van Dewoestine
Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
scrolls back to where the cursor is.
- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
http://vimshell.wana.at
- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
taglist() can be used.
- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Documentation:
8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
Feb 20.
8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
or not.
8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
- change to cursor position and curswant
- if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
- how it works for folded lines
- how it works with multi-byte characters
9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
work too.
8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
text.
8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
<C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
- 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.
Tab pages:
9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
font, etc.)
9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
mouse.
8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
7 Add local variables for each tab page?
8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
tab pages.
7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
window-local directories?
Spell checking:
- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
- Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
Similarly for TeX.
- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffic Voikko is now
used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
(Teemu Likonen)
8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
items and theck if the result is a valid word.
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
How is it supposed to work?
8 implement using CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN: match words with sl_comppat[].
- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
the word are not used.
- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
use same wordlist for hyphenation.
- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX