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1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Feb 02
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9 This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
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10 improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
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11 subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
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12 to look for "the next thing to do":
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14 Priority classification:
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15 9 next point release
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16 8 next release
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17 7 as soon as possible
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18 6 soon
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20 4 nice to have
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21 3 consider including
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22 2 maybe not
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23 1 probably not
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24 - unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
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27 See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
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28 be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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29
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30 *known-bugs*
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31 -------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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33 Sanity check of eval.c:
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34 - Check use of v_type for VAR_FUNC, VAR_LIST ad VAR_DICT.
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35 - Go through the code for magic braces.
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36 - Check list watchers.
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38 Mention rsync command on runtime.php page:
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39 rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="dos" --delete-excluded ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ vim63-runtime
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41 When 'paste' is set in the GUI the toolbar button doesn't work in Insert mode.
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42 Use ":exe" in menu.vim to avoid duplicating the commands, instead of using a
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43 mapping.
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45 Better way to get temp file for tcltags and vimspell scripts. (javier Pena)
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46 Possibly leave out code for temp directory.
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48 patch for QuickFixCmdPre and QuickFixCmdPost autocommands. (Ciaran McCreesh,
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49 2005 Jan 1)
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51 When 'nowrap' is set and selecting text with the mouse, moving the mouse right
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52 of the text area doesn't cause a horizontal scroll. (Dave Ewart)
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54 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
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55 - add remark in version7.txt
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56 - check if it works for pixmap loaded from a file.
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58 Explain Lists, Dicts, |:for| etc. in the user manual |usr_41.txt|.
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59 Add more tests for all List and Dict related functionality.
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61 Awaiting response:
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62 - Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c
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63 - Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. Using
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64 gui_mch_dialog() would be good, but need to move display_errors() to after
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65 creating the window, so that s_hwnd is valid.
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66 How to add a scrollbar to the dialog?
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67 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
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68 the screen.
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71 PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
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73 - For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination?
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74 + can include NUL characters
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75 - setline() will have problems with NL vs NUL.
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76 Can use list of numbers instead (inefficient though).
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77 Also: for strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, VAR_STRINGX.
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78 - new DATA TYPES:
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79 - None? (or use empty string?)
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80 See ~/vim/ideas.txt.
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81 - Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages.
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82 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow.
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83 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes
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84 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell".
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85 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for
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86 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/).
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88 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains
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89 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change
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90 the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
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91 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
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93 - Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell). Work together with them to
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94 update the wordlist. (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales)
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95 - Patch from Marcin Dalecki. (2004 Dec) Uses ispell
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96 implements "undercurl" attribute. But how to set its color?
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97 Perhaps use "guicurl=Red" instead?
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98 If underline and undercurl are both there use undercurl only.
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99 - REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
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100 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
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102 Move the printing stuff to hardcopy.c.
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103 - Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
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104 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
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105 code menu, toolbar, etc.
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107 directory tree can be searched.
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108 - Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
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109 like commands.
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110 - "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
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111 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
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112 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
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113 of http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
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114 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
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115 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
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116 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
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117 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
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118 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
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119 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
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120 Vim-script list.
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121 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
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122 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
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123 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
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124 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
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125 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
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126 Also see "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products:
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127 - Put the list of choices right under the place where they would be
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128 inserted.
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129 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
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130 - UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
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131 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
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132 info, make a new branch.
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133 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
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134 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
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135 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
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136 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
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137 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
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138 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
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139 again.
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140 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
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141 text state in the tree?
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142 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
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143 - PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
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144 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
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145 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
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146 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
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147 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
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148 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
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149 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
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150 Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab.
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151 Also for the console!
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152 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
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153 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
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154 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
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155 - EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
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156 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
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157 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
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158 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
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159 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
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160 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
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161 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
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162 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
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163 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
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164 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
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165 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
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166 other window.
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167 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
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168 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
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169 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
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170 in terminal mode.
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171 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
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172 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
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173 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
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174 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
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178 - Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
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179 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
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180 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
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181 8 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
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182 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
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183 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
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184 - Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
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185 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
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186 - FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
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187 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
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188 - VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
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189 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
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190 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
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191 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
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192 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
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193 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
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194 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
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195 8 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no
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196 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for
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197 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal
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198 action, telling it what to do.
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199 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
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200 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenfull, also count the
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201 characters.
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202 - Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, 2004 June 27)
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203 Other patch from Da Woon Jung, 2005 Jan 16.
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204 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
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205 New patch 2004 Jun 16
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206 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
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207 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
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208 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
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209 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
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210 instead.
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211 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
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212 line.
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213 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
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214 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
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215 - When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
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216 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
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217 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
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218 - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
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219 - "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
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220 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
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221 - In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
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222 with \u, \U, etc.
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224 Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
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225 2004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
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226
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227 g CTRL-G should also show number of characters (not only bytes).
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228
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229 For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
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230 windows. Example:
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231 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
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232 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
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233 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
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234 : return getline(lnum)
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235 :endfun
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236 The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
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237 Virtual window.
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238 A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
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239 nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
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240 is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
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241
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242 Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
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243 Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
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244 Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
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246 Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X.
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248 HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
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249 profiling for Vim script? At least add a function to get the current time in
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250 usec. reltime([start, [end]])
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251 reltime().sec == seconds, reltime().usec = microseconds
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252 reltime(start) current time relative to [start]
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253 echo timestring(reltime(start), 3) (3 is nr of digits after dot)
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254 reltime(start, end) difference between start and end
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256 Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul)
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258 Awaiting updated patches:
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259 --- awaiting updated patch ---
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260 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
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261 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
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262 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
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263 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
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264 separate the from and to part is optional.
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265 Resp: no time now.
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266 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar
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267 15, but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
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268 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
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269 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
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270 He will update the patch for 6.3.
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271 Autocommands:
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272 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
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273 Update 2004 Sep 6.
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274 How does this work? Missing comments.
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275 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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276 Update 2004 Sep 10
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277 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
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278 How to get the messages into the .po files?
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279 --- did not respond (yet) --
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280 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
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281 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
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282 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
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283 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
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284 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
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285 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
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286 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
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287 (28 feb 2002).
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288 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
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289 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
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290 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
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291 for multi-byte characters.
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292 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
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293 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
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294 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
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295 been given values.
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296 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
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297 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
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298 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
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299 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
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300 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
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301 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
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302 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
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303 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
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304 8 Add functions:
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305 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
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306 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
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307 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
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308 (2003 May 13)
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309 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command
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310 {cmd} and return the result.
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311 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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312 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
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313 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
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314 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
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315 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
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316 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
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317 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
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318 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
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319 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
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320 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
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321 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
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322 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
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323 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
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324 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
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325 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
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326 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
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327 Kotchan has a patch for it)
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328 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in
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329 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way
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330 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each
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331 individual modified key.
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332 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37,
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333 with modifiers.
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334 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
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335 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
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336 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
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337 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
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338 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
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339 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
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340 incomplete patch Mar 18)
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341 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
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342 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
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343 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
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344 runtime files?
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345 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
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346 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
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347 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
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348 Need to escape backslashes.
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349 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
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350 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
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351 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
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353 Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single
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354 quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4)
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356
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357 Vi incompatibility:
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358 9 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan)
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359 8 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail.
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360 8 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines.
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361 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
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362 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
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363 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
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364 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
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365 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
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366 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
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367 8 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
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368 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
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369 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
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370 8 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
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371 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
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372 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
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373 make Vim exit.
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374 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
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375 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
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376 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
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377 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
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378 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
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379 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
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380 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
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381 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
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382 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
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383 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
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384 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
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385 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
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386 names in one buffer???
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387 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
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388 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
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389 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
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390 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
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391 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
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392 command was one command.
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393 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
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394 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
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395 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
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396 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
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397 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
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398 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
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399 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
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400 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
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401 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
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402 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
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403 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
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404 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
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405 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
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406 to the match with the tag? Option?
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407 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
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408 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
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409 (Sayre).
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410 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
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411 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
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412 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
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413 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
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414 match. Nvi can do it too.
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415 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
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416 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
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417 line 1\ line 2\\
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418 line 2\ line 3\\
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419 . line4/
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420 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
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421 the way the shell is started?
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422 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
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423 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
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424
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425
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426 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
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427 8 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
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428 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
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429 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
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430 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
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431 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
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432 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
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433 the minimal window width?
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434 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
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435 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
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436 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
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437 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
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438
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439 GTK+ GUI known bugs:
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440 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
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441 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
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442 creating a label?
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443 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
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444 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
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445 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
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446 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
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447 7 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
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448
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449 KDE GUI known bugs:
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450 - There is no active maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to replace it.
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451 - With the default 'guifont' value bold text differs in size from normal
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452 text, causing the display to be messed up.
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453 - Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
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454 - Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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455
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456 Win32 GUI known bugs:
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457 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
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458 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
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459 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
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460 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
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461 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
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462 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
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463 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
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464 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
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465 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
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466 "lucida_console:h8").
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467 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
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468 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
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469 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
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470 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
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471 type of characters.
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472 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
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473 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
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474 to use an opaque background in most places?
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475 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
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476 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
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477 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
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478 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
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479 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
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480 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
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481 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
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482 2004 May 9)
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483 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
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484 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
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485 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
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486 MS-Windows 98?
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487 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
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488 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
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489 file: Window moves with the cursor!
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490 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
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491 8 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
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492 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
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493 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
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494 appear. (Sami Salonen)
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495 8 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
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496 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
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497 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
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498 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
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499 doesn't work properly.
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500 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
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501 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
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502 appears in the right position. (Webb)
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503 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
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504 button doesn't give popup menu.
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505 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
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506 selection.
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507 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
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508 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
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509 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
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510 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
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511 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
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512 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
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513 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
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514 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
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515 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
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516 be read.
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517 8 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to
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518 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return).
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519 Use a scrollable window.
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520 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
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521 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
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522 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
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523 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
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524 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
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525 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
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526 anyway.
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527 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
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528 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
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529 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
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530 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
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531 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
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532 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
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533 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
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534 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
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535 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
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536 know which keyboard is being used?
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537 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
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538 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
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539 area (Koloseike).
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540 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
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541 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
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542 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
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543 the font name).
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544
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545
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546 Athena and Motif:
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547 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
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548 required and it's missing?
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549 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
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550 wrong.
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551 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
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552 be off by default.
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553 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
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554 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
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555 flag.
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556 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
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557 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
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558 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
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559 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
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560 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
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561 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
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562 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
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563 the tooltips work though...
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564 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
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565 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
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566 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
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567 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
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568 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
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569
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570
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571 Athena GUI:
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572 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
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573 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
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574 through files.
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575 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
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576 read long file names. (Schroeder)
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577 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
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578 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
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579 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
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580 problem during a refresh.
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581 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
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582 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
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583 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
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584 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
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585 colors as it should.
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586 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
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587 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
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588
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589
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590 Motif GUI:
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591 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
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592 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
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593 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
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594 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
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595 (Phillipps)
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596
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597
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598 GUI:
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599 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
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600 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
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601 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
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602 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
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603 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
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604 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
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605 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
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606 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
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607 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
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608 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
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609 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
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610 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
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611 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
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612 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
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613 of where it is processing the output.
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614 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
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615 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
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616 doesn't work.
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617 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
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618 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
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619 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
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620 browse().
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621 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
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622 use that code? Or use console dialog.
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623 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
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624 error message disappears too quick.
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625 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
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626 to avoid problems.
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627 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
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628 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
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629 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
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630 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
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631 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
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632 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
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633 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
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634 up. Set erase character somehow?
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635 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
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636 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
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637 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
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638 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
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639 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
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640 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
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641 visible.
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642 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
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643 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
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644 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
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645 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
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646 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
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647 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
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648 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
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649 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
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650 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
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651 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
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652 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
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653 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
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654 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
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655 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
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656
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657
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658 MSDOS/DJGPP:
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659 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
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660 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
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661 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
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662 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
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663 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
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664 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
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665 code and reduce static data.
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666 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
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667 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
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668 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
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669 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
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670 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
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671 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
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672 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
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673 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
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674 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
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675 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
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676 Make this work like in Win32 console.
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677 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
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678 key code. Use a translation table?
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679 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
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680 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
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681 8 Use DJGPP 2.03.
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682 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
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683 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
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684 8 setlocale() is bogus.
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685 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
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686 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
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687 Windows 95 system!
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688 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
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689 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
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690 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
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691 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
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692 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
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693 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
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694 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
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695 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
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696 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
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697 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
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698 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
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699 "[New file]".
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700 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
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701 that is supported?
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702 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
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703 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
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704 Briscoe)
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705
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706
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707 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
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708 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
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709 gen_expand_wildcards().
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710 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
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711 Wagner.
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712 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
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713 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
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714 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
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715 8 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
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716 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
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717 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
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718 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
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719 Should work like in the GUI version.
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720 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
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721 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
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722 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
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723 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
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724 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
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725 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
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726 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
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727 8 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
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728 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
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729 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
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730 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
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731 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
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732
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733
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734 Windows 95:
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735 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
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736 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
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737 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
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738 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
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739 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
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740
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741
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742 Win32 console:
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743 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
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744 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
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745 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
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746 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
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747 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
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748 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
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749 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
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750 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
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751 and the file is not saved.
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752 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
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753 long name.
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754 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
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755 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
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756 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
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757 besides the console.
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758 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
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759 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
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760 <C-S-i>?
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761 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
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762 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
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763 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
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764 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
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765 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
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766 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
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767 exiting.
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768
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769
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770 Amiga:
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771 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
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772 sequences.
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773 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
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774 backslashes in result.
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775 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
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776 all options, using white space separation.
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777
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778
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779 Macintosh:
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780 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
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781 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
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782 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
7
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783 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
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784 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
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785 (Jack)
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786 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
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787 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
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788 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
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789 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
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790 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
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791 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
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792 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
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793 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
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794 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
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795 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
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796 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
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797 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
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798 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
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799 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
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800 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
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801 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
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802 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
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803 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
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804 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
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805
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806
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807 "Small" problems:
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808 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
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809 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
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810 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
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811 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
7
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812 9 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
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813 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
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814 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
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815 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
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816 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
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817 error number, it's not a regular error message.
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818 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
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819 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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820 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
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821 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
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822 for redirection.
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823 7 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
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824 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
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825 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
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826 7 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored.
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827 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often
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828 when compiled with Python (threading).
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829 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
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830 'termencoding'.
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831 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
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832 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
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833 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
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834 using the horizontal scrollbar.
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835 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
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836 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
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837 invocations belong together.
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838 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
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839 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
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840 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
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841 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
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842 UnxUtils.zip archive.
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843 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
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844 Briscoe says it's not as good.
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845 8 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
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846 9 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
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847 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
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848 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
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849 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
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850 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
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851 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
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852 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
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853 use "~/" when possible.
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854 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
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855 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
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856 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
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857 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
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858 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
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859 defined.
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860 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
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861 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
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862 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
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863 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
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864 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
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865 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
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866 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
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867 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
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868 7 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
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869 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
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870 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
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871 9 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
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872 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
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873 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
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874 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
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875 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
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876 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
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877 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
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878 script can be called.
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879 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
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880 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
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881 works.
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882 9 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
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883 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
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884 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
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885 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
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886 CTRL-C.
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887 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
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888 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
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889 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
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890 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
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891 won't work for GTK anyway.
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892 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
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893 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
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894 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
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895 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
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896 configurable?
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897 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
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898 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
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899 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
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900 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
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901 8 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
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902 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
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903 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
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904 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
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905 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
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906 always written, even when the original file already exists.
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907 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
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908 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
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909 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
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910 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
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911 written.
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912 9 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
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913 error number.
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914 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
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915 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
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916 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
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917 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
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918 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
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919 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
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920 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
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921 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
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922 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
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923 one.
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924 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
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925 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
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926 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
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927 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
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928 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
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929 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
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930 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
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931 direction, not horizontally?
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932 8 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
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933 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
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934 8 ":hardcopy":
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935 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
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936 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
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937 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
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938 dithering to make grey text?
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939 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
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940 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
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941 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
7
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942 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
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943 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
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944 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
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945 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
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946 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
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947 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
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948 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
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949 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
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950 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
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951 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
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952 that Windows NT is being used?
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953 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
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954 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
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955 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
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956 in lines that don't extend into the block?
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957 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
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958 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
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959 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
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960 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
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961 'linebreak'.
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962 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
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963 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
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964 (Helmut Stiegler)
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965 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
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966 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
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967 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
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968 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
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969 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
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970 'magic' in history. (Margo)
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971 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
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972 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
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973 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
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974 isn't updated).
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975 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
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976 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
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977 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
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978 cause another redraw, etc.
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979 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
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980 must escape special characters in the pattern.
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981 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
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982 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
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983 ":w!!" for that.
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984 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
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985 restore file to readonly afterwards.
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986 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
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987 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
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988 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
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989 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
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990 clipboard)
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991 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
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992 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
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993 Waggoner)
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994 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
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995 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
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996 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
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997 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
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998 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
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999 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
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1000 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
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1001 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
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1002 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
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1003 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
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1004 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
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1005 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
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1006 (e.g., ":w").
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1007 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
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1008 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
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1009 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
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1010 for ">>".
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1011 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
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1012 script in do_cmdline().
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1013 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
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1014 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
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1015 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
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1016 changes.
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1017 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
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1018 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
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1019 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
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1020 check for file marks. This can be slow.
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1021 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
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1022 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
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1023 needed.
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1024 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
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1025 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
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1026 to skip catch_signals()?
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1027 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
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1028 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
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1029 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
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1030 text?
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1031 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
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1032 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
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1033 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
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1034 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
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1035 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
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1036 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
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1037 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
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1038 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
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1039 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
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1040 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
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1041 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
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1042 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
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1043 in the list?
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1044 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
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1045 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
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1046 instead of on button down.
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1047 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
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1048 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
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1049 reaching the end of the available buffer.
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1050 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
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1051 character is typed.
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1052 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
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1053 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
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1054 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
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1055 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
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1056 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
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1057 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
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1058 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
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1059 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
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1060 cygwin bash.
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1061 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
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1062 Remember flags for backreferences.
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1063 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
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1064 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
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1065 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
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1066 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
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1067 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
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1068 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
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1069 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
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1070 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
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1071 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
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1072 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
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1073 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
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1074 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
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1075 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
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1076 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
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1077 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
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1078 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
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1079 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
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1080 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
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1081 7 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still
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1082 was one line.
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1083
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1084
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1085 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
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1086 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
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1087 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
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1088 files. (McCollister)
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1089
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1090
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1091 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
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1092 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
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1093 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
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1094 "xterm" when exiting with an ESC sequence. Vim 2 obtains the old title
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1095 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
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1096 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
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1097 worked around with a delay.
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1098 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
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1099 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
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1100 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
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1101 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
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1102 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
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1103 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
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1104 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
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1105 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
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1106 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
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1107 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
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1108 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
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1109 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
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1110 character gets the highlighting.
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1111 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
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1112 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
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1113 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
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1114 (Jennings)
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1115 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
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1116 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
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1117 errors. How do we get the rest?
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1118 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
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1119 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
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1120 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
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1121 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
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1122 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
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1123 first?
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1124 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
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1125 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
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1126 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
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1127 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
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1128 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
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1129 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
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1130 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
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1131 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
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1132 (Benzinger).
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1133 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
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1134 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
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1135 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
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1136 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
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1137 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
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1138 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
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1139 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
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1140 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
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1141 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
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1142 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
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1143 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
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1144 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
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1145 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
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1146 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
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1147 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
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1148 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
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1149 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
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1150 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
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1151 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
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1152 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
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1153 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
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1154 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
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1155 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
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1156 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
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1157 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
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1158 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
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1159 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
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1160 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
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1161 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
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1162 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
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1163 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
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1164 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
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1165 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
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1166 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
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1167 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
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1168 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
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1169 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
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1170 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
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1171 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
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1172 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
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1173 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
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1174 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
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1175 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
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1176 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
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1177 in the vimrc file to be lost.
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1178 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
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1179 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
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1180
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1181 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
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1182 *extensions-improvements*
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1183
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1184 Documentation:
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1185 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
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1186 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
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1187 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
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1188 or not.
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1189 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
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1190 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
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1191 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
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1192 - change to cursor position and curswant
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1193 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
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1194 - how it works for folded lines
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1195 - how it works with multi-byte characters
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1196 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
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1197 work too.
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1198 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
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1199 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
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1200 text.
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1201 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
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1202 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
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1203 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
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1204 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
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1205 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
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1206 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
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1207
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1208
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1209 Help:
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1210 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
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1211 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
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1212 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
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1213 to the other matches.
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1214 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
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1215 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
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1216 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
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1217 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
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1218 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
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1219 default contents.
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1220 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
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1221 height for the help window (and other windows).
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1222 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
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1223 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
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1224 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
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1225
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1226
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1227 User Friendlier:
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1228 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
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1229 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
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1230 Briscoe)
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1231 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
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1232 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
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1233 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
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1234 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
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1235 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
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1236 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
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1237 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
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1238 ":mkplugin <file>"?
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1239 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
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1240 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
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1241 'runtimepath'.
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1242 " Vim plugin
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1243 <main plugin code>
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1244 " >>> plugin help start <<<
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1245 <plugin docs>
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1246 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
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1247 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
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1248 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
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1249 item?).
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1250 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
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1251 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
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1252 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
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1253
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1254
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1255 Diff mode:
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1256 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
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1257 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
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1258 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
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1259 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
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1260 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
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1261 location.
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1262
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1263
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1264 Folding:
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1265 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
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1266 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
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1267 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
7
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1268 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
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1269 (Noel Henson)
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1270 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
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1271 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
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1272 user aware of this?
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1273 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
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1274 commands skip over a closed fold.
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1275 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
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1276 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
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1277 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
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1278 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
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1279 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
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1280 missing line goes unnoticed.
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1281 How to implement this?
7
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1282 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
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1283 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
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1284 smoother?
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1285 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
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1286 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
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1287 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
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1288 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
36
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1289 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
7
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1290 - "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
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1291 implement this?
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1292 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
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1293 cursor.
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1294 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
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1295 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
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1296 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
7
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1297 searches.
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1298
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1299
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1300 Multi-byte characters:
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1301 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
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1302 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
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1303 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
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1304 byte).
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1305 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
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1306 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
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1307 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
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1308 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
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1309 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
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1310 item.
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1311 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
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1312 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
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1313 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
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1314 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
36
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1315 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
38
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1316 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
7
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1317 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
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1318 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
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1319 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
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1320 so that the user can fix the problem.
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1321 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
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1322 Schweigert)
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1323 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
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1324 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
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1325 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
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1326 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
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1327 8 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
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1328 7 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
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1329 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
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1330 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
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1331 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
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1332 characters.
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1333 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
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1334 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
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1335 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
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1336 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
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1337 'display' option to specify this.
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1338 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
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1339 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
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1340 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
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1341 fontselector somehow.
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1342 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
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1343 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
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1344 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
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1345 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
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1346 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
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1347 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
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1348 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
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1349 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
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1350 if a font exists?
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1351 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
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1352 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
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1353 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
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1354 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
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1355 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
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1356 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
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1357 - Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
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1358 - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
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1359 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
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1360 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
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1361 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
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1362 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
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1363 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
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1364 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
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1365 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
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1366 But it's very complicated...
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1367
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1368
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1369 Printing:
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1370 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
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1371 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
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1372 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
46
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1373 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
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1374 Reilly)
7
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1375 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
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1376 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
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1377 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
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1378 - PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
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1379 different 'encoding' values somehow.
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1380 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
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1381 units as for the margins.
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1382 - Support right-to-left text?
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1383 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
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1384 color.
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1385
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1386
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1387 Syntax highlighting:
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1388 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
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1389 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
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1390 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
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1391 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
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1392 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
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1393 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
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1394 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
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1395 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
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1396 ":wq file".
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1397 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
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1398 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
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1399 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
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1400 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
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1401 Search highlighting.
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1402 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
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1403 change this for each release.
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1404 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
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1405 pattern, but not in the body.
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1406 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
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1407 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
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1408 instead of the containing item.
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1409 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
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1410 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
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1411 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
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1412 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
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1413 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
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1414 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
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1415 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
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1416 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
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1417 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
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1418 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
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1419 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
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1420 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
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1421 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
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1422 used.
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1423 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
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1424 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
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1425 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
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1426 re-insert the [] if possible.
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1427 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
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1428 the Cursor).
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1429 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
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1430 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
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1431 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
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1432 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
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1433 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
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1434 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
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1435 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
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1436 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
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1437 a '<'. (Fleiner)
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1438 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
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1439 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
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1440 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
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1441 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
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1442 detected.
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1443 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
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1444 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
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1445 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
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1446 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
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1447 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
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1448 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
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1449 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
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1450 ":mkvimrc".
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1451 8 Improve c.vim:
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1452 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
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1453 "c_strict_ansi".
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1454 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
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1455 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
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1456 current line while in Insert mode.
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1457 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
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1458 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
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1459 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
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1460 display position.
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1461 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
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1462 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
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1463 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
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1464 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
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1465 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
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1466 highlighting starts.
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1467 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
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1468 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
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1469 E.g. for this html:
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1470 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
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1471 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
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1472 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
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1473 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
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1474 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
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1475 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
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1476 words.
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1477 7 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
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1478 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
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1479 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
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1480 8 Add more command line completion for :sign.
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1481 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
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1482 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
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1483 completion?
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1484 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
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1485 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
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1486 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
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1487 select one of the sets.
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1488 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
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1489 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
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1490 2, etc.
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1491 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
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1492 highlighting (for "." command).
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1493 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
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1494 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
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1495 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
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1496 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
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1497 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
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1498 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
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1499 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
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1500 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
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1501 when extending an already existing syntax file.
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1502 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
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1503 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
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1504 (for comment blocks).
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1505 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
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1506 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
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1507 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
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1508 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
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1509 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
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1510 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
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1511 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
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1512 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
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1513 (Campbell)
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1514 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
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1515 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
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1516 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
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1517 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
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1518 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
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1519 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
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1520 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
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1521 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
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1522 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
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1523 messages. And external commands?
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1524 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
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1525 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
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1526 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
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1527 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
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1528
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1529
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1530 Built-in script language:
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1531 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
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1532 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
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1533 8 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
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1534 'shellslash', for example.
51
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1535 - Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer.
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1536 Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command.
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1537 (Webb)
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1538 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
7
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1539 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
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1540 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
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1541 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
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1542 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
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1543 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
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1544 nested packages?
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1545 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
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1546 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
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1547 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
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1548 7 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
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1549 7 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
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1550 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
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1551 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
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1552 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
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1553 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
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1554 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
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1555 the buffer (unlisted).
7
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1556 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
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1557 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
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1558 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
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1559 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
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1560 autocommand.
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1561 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
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1562 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
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1563 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
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1564 file belongs to a sourced script?
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1565 7 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
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1566 Marinichev)
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1567 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
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1568 signs and/or 'number'.
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1569 8 Add functions:
20
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1570 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
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1571 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
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1572 3 2002
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1573 Only add this when also implemented for
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1574 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
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1575 be used.
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1576 get_user_name() gets login name.
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1577 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
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1578 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
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1579 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
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1580 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
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1581 File.Open..." argument.
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1582 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
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1583 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
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1584 with properties instead.
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1585 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
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1586 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
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1587 Return a list instead.
7
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1588 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
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1589 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
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1590 mkdir(dir) Create directory
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1591 copy(from, to) Copy a file
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1592 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
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1593 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
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1594 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
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1595 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
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1596 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
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1597 Visual block mode.
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1598 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
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1599 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
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1600 getbufline() get line from any buffer
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1601 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
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1602 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
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1603 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also:
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1604 ":sort".
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1605 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
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1606 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
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1607 to allow the library to execute a command or
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1608 evaluate an expression.
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1609 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX
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1610 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX
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1611 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
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1612 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
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1613 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
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1614 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
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1615 8 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
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1616 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
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1617 8 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
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1618 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
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1619 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
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1620 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
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1621 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
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1622 8 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
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1623 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
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1624 option or environment variable.
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1625 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
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1626 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
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1627 stack available (separated with '\n').
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1628 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
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1629 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
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1630 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
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1631 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
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1632 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
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1633 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
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1634 charwise({expr}).
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1635 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
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1636 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
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1637 buffer for this?
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1638 result = scratch(string, command)
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1639 result = apply(string, command)
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1640 result = execute(string, command)
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1641 "command" would use <> notation.
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1642 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
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1643 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
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1644 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
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1645 option for the search path. (Sekera)
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1646 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
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1647
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1648
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1649 Robustness:
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1650 8 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch():
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1651 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+
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1652 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack
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1653 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for
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1654 more systems?
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1655 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
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1656 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
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1657 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
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1658 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
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1659 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
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1660 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
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1661 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
7
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1662
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1663
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1664 Performance:
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1665 8 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
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1666 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
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1667 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
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1668 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
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1669 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
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1670 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
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1671 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
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1672 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
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1673 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
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1674 when starting up in a color terminal.
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1675 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
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1676 Win16.
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1677 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
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1678 redraw.
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1679 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
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1680 function be improved?
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1681 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
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1682 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
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1683 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
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1684 this be improved?
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1685 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
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1686 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
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1687 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
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1688 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
7
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1689 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
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1690 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
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1691 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
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1692 lot of abbreviations).
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1693 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
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1694 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
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1695 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
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1696 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
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1697 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
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1698 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
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1699 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
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1700 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
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1701 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
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1702 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
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1703 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
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1704 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
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1705 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
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1706 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
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parents:
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1707 using strcmp() too often?
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1708 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
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1709 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
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1710 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
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1711 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
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1712 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
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1713 the two blocks to the memfile block.
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1714 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
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1715 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
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1716 with an argument that can be messed with.
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1717 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
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1718 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
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1719 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
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1720 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
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1721 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
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1722 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
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1723 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
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1724 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
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1725 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
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1726 - Do profiling on:
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1727 - :g/pat/normal cmd
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1728 - 1000ii<Esc>
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1729 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
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1730 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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1731 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
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1732 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
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1733 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
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1734 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
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1735 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
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1736 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
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1737 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
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1738 changed).
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1739 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
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1740 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
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1741 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
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1742 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
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1743 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
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1744 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
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1745 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
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1746 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
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1747 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
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1748 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
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1749 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
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1750 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
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1751 cursor is right of the screen.
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1752 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
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1753 CTRL-C (it's slow).
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1754
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1755
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1756 Code size:
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1757 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
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1758 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
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1759 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
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1760 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
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1761 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
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1762 it.
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1763 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
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1764 left out.
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1765 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
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1766 can be removed.
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1767 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
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1768
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1769
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1770 Messages:
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1771 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
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1772 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
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1773 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
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1774 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
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1775 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
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1776 script.
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1777 8 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
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1778 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
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1779 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
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1780 Perhaps after ten seconds?
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1781 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
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1782 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
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1783 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
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1784 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
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1785 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
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1786 redrawing.
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1787 7 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
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1788 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
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1789 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
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1790 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
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1791 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
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1792 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
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1793 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
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1794 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
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1795 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
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1796 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
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1797 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
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1798 sleep before second message?
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1799 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
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1800 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
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1801 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
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1802 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
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1803 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
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1804 error messages, printing text, etc.
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1805 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
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1806 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
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1807 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
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1808
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1809
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1810 Screen updating:
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1811 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
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1812 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
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1813 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
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1814 - screen_line():
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1815 - insert/delete character stuff.
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1816 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
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1817 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
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1818 dragging the status line with the mouse).
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1819 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
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1820 waiting for a character.
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1821 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
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1822 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
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1823 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
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1824 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
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1825
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1826
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1827 Scrolling:
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1828 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
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1829 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
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1830 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
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1831 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
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1832 windows.
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1833 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
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1834 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
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1835 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
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1836 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
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1837 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
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1838 (Goldfarb)
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1839 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
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1840 bound windows.
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1841 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
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1842 be bound by regexp searches
9
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1843 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
7
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1844 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
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1845 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
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1846 of lines but not with a single line).
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1847
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1848
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1849 Autoconf:
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1850 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
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1851 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
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1852 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
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1853 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
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1854 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
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1855 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
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1856 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
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1857 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
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1858
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1859
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1860 Perl interface:
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1861 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
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1862 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
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1863 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
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1864 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
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1865
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1866
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1867 Shared libraries:
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1868 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
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1869 :libload internal-name libname
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1870 :libunload internal-name
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1871 :liblist
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1872 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
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1873 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
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1874 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
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1875 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
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1876
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1877
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1878 Tags:
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1879 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
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1880 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
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1881 8 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
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1882 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
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1883 Hendriks)
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1884 7 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
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1885 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
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1886 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
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1887 to type the tag number directly.
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1888 7 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
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1889 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
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1890 window for each tag.
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1891 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
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1892 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
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1893 bottom" search message.
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1894 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
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1895 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
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1896 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
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1897 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
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1898 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
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1899 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
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1900 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
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1901 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
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1902 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
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1903 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
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1904 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
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1905 :tagargs clear
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1906 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
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1907 matching).
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1908 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
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1909 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
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1910 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
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1911 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
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1912 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
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1913 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
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1914 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
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1915 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
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1916 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
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1917
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1918
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1919 Security:
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1920 - nothing at the moment
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1921
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1922
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1923 Win32 GUI:
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1924 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
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1925 the message and input?
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1926 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
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1927 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
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1928 dynamically?
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1929 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
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1930 (Mike McCollister)
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1931 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
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1932 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
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1933 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
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1934 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
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1935 common part of the path.
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1936 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
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1937 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
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1938 gettext and menus work.
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1939 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
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1940 return in every console.
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1941 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
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1942 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
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1943 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
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1944 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
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1945 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
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1946 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
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1947 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
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1948 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
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1949 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
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1950 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
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1951 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
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1952 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
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1953 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
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1954 prompts.
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1955 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
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1956 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
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1957 the file added into an already running Vim.
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1958 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
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1959 functions to find the window title.
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1960
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1961
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1962 GUI:
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1963 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
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1964 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
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1965 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
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1966 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
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1967 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
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1968 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
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1969 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
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1970 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
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1971 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
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1972 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
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1973 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
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1974 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
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1975 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
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1976 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
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1977 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
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1978 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
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1979 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
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1980 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
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1981 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
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1982 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
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1983 running them in separate processes.
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1984 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
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1985 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
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1986 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
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1987 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
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1988 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
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1989 double-width. (Maeda)
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1990 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
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1991 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
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1992 select one.
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1993 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
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1994 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
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1995 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
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1996 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
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1997 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
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1998 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
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1999 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
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2000 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
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2001 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
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2002 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
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2003 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
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2004 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
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2005 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
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2006 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
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2007 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
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2008 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
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2009 7 Should support multi-column menus.
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2010 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
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2011 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
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2012 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
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2013 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
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2014 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
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2015 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
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2016 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
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2017 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
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2018 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
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2019 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
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2020 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
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2021 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
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2022 name can be chosen free.
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2023 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
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2024 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
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2025 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
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2026 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
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2027 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
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2028 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
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2029 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
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2030 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
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2031 things.
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2032 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
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2033 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
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2034 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
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2035 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
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2036 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
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2037 where it was started from?
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2038 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
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2039
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2040
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2041 VMS:
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2042 - Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
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2043 - Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
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2044 works just on 7.3).
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2045
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2046
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2047 Autocommands:
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2048 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
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2049 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
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2050 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
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2051 changing the buffer name.
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2052 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
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2053 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
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2054 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
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2055 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
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2056 difficult).
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2057 8 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
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2058 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
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2059 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
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2060 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
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2061 8 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
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2062 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
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2063 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
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2064 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
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2065 And anything else?
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2066 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
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2067 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
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2068 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
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2069 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
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2070 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
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2071 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
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2072 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
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2073 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
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2074 7 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
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2075 file.
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2076 7 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
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2077 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
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2078 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
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2079 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
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2080 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
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2081 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
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2082 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
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2083 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
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2084 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
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2085 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
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2086 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
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2087 file.
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2088 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
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2089 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
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2090 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
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2091 - Add events to autocommands:
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2092 Error - When an error happens
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2093 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
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2094 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
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2095 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
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2096 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
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2097 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
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2098 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
17
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2099 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
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2100 when exiting isn't a good idea.
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2101 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
7
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2102 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
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2103 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
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2104 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
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2105 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
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2106 window title)
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2107 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
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2108 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
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2109 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
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2110 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
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2111 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
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2112 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
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2113 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
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2114 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
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2115 the char.
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2116 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
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2117 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
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2118 file from CVS).
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2119 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
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2120 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
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2121 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
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2122 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
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2123 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
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2124 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
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2125 WinResized - When a window has been resized
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2126 - Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
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2127 file now and then ('autosave').
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2128 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
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2129 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
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2130 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
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2131 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
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2132 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
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2133 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
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2134 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
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2135
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2136
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2137 Insert mode completion/expansion:
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2138 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
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2139 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
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2140 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
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2141 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
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2142 (Webb)
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2143 8 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
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2144 comments.
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2145 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
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2146 - ignore/match case
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2147 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
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2148 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
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2149 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
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2150 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
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2151 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
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2152 Should work for C++ and Java.
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2153 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
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2154 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
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2155 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
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2156 instead of words.
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2157 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
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2158 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
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2159 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
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2160 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
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2161 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
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2162 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
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2163 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
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2164 wildcards in the file name)?
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2165 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
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2166 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
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2167 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
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2168 be in another file).
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2169 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
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2170 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
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2171 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
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2172 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
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2173 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
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2174 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
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2175 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
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2176 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
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2177 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
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2178 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
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2179 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
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2180 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
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2181
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2182
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2183 Command line editing:
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2184 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
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2185 line.
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2186 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
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2187 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
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2188 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
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2189 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
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2190 lines wraps to start of line).
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2191 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
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2192 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
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2193 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
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2194 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
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2195 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
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2196 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
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2197 cmdwin does now already.
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diff changeset
2198 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
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2199 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
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2200 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
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2201 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
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2202 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
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2203 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
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2204 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
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2205 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
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2206 Problems:
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2207 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
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2208 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
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2209 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
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2210 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
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2211 - Normal: no ":" commands?
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2212 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
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2213 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
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2214 character in first column?
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2215 - Implementation ideas:
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2216 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
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2217 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
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2218 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
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2219 - sync undo after entering a command line?
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2220 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
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2221 Mode.
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2222
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2223
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2224 Command line completion:
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2225 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
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2226 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
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2227 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
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2228 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
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parents:
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2229 them with the optional part inside [].
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2230 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
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parents:
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2231 edited. (Sven Guckes)
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diff changeset
2232 7 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=.
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parents:
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2233 (Servatius Brandt)
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parents:
diff changeset
2234 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
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2235 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
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2236 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
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2237 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
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2238 8 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command.
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2239 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
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2240 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
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2241 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
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2242 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
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2243 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
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2244 identifiers (Webb).
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2245 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
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2246 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
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2247 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
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2248 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
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2249 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
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2250 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
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2251 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
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2252 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
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2253 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
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2254 - Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL".
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2255
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2256
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2257 Command line history:
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2258 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
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2259 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
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2260 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
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2261 completely resulted from one mapping.
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2262 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
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2263 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
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2264
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2265
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2266 Insert mode:
10
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2267 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
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2268 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
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2269 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
7
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2270 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
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2271 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
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2272 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
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2273 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
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2274 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
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2275 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
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2276 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
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2277 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
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2278 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
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2279 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
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2280 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
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2281 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
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2282 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
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2283 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
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2284 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
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2285 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
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2286 Normal mode.
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2287 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
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2288 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
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2289 are used.
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2290 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
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2291 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
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2292 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
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2293
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2294
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2295 'cindent', 'smartindent':
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2296 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
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2297 Foo::Foo (int one,
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2298 int two)
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2299 : something(4)
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2300 {}
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2301 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
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2302 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
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2303 : something(4),
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2304 somethingelse(3)
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2305 {}
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2306 9 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
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2307 int main ()
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2308 {
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2309 if (lala)
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2310 do
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2311 ++(*lolo);
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2312 while (lili
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2313 && lele);
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2314 lulu;
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2315 }
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2316 9 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
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2317 void function(int param) {
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2318 if (false)
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2319 return;
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2320 }
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2321 9 brace not indented correctly:
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2322 case 'c': if (cond)
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2323 {
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2324 Should align with "if" in case statement.
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2325 7 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
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2326 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
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parents:
diff changeset
2327 asdf
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2328 )
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2329 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
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2330 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
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diff changeset
2331 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
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2332 func(
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2333 new String[] {
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2334 "asdf",
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2335 "asdf"
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2336 }
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2337 );
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2338 7 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
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2339 func(
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2340 int x) // indent like "(4"
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diff changeset
2341 {
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parents:
diff changeset
2342 if (a
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2343 && b) // indent like "(0"
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2344 8 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
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2345 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
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2346 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
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2347 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
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parents:
diff changeset
2348 */
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parents:
diff changeset
2349 hello
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diff changeset
2350 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
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parents:
diff changeset
2351 if (a)
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parents:
diff changeset
2352 {
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2353 if (b)
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2354 {
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2355 // {
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2356 }
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2357 } <-- this is indented incorrect
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2358 9 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
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2359 (void) MyFancyFunction(
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2360 argument);
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diff changeset
2361 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
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parents:
diff changeset
2362 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
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diff changeset
2363 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
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parents:
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2364 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
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parents:
diff changeset
2365 line).
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parents:
diff changeset
2366 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
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parents:
diff changeset
2367 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
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parents:
diff changeset
2368 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
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parents:
diff changeset
2369 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
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diff changeset
2370 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
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diff changeset
2371 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
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parents:
diff changeset
2372 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
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parents:
diff changeset
2373 code), unless the line starts with "*".
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parents:
diff changeset
2374 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
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parents:
diff changeset
2375 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
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diff changeset
2376 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
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2377 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
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2378 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
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parents:
diff changeset
2379 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
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diff changeset
2380 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
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parents:
diff changeset
2381 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
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2382 lines start with "\item".
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2383 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
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parents:
diff changeset
2384 /* here is a comment that
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parents:
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2385 is just autoindented, and
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parents:
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2386 nothing else */
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2387 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
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2388 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
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diff changeset
2389 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
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diff changeset
2390 indents.
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2391 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
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2392 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
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2393 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
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2394
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2395
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2396 Java:
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2397 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
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diff changeset
2398 Odendahl?
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2399 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
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2400 "[i" commands and friends.
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diff changeset
2401 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
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2402 (Jason)
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2403 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
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2404 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
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diff changeset
2405
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2406
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2407 'comments':
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2408 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
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2409 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
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2410 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
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2411 when it's "#" or "//".
121
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2412 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
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2413 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
7
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2414 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
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2415 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
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2416 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
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2417 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
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2418 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
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2419 regexp is used.
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2420 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
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2421 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
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2422
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2423
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2424 Virtual edit:
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2425 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
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2426 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
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2427 end of the line?
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2428 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
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2429
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2430
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2431 Text objects:
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2432 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
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2433 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
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2434 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
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2435 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
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2436 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
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2437 the end of the line or before a ".".
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2438 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
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2439 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
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2440 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
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2441 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
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2442 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
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2443 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
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2444 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
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2445 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
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2446 cursor is on.
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2447
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2448
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2449 Select mode:
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2450 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
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2451 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
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2452 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
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2453 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
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2454 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
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2455 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
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parents:
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2456 contains 'C' or 'A'.
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2457 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
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2458 normal_cmd().
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parents:
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2459 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
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parents:
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2460 - Typing text replaces the selection.
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parents:
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2461
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2462
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2463 Visual mode:
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2464 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
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2465 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
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2466 is in the top line.
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2467 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
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2468 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
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2469 where needed.
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2470 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
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2471 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
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2472 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
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2473 of each selected line.
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2474 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
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2475 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
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2476 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
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2477 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
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2478 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
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2479 Ben Godfrey)
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2480 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
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2481 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
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2482 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
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2483 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
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2484 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
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2485 Young is working on this)
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2486 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
8
7edf9b6e4c36 Various changes
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2487 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
7
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2488 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
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2489 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
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2490 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
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2491 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
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2492 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
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2493 option!
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2494 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
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2495 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
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2496 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
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2497 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
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2498 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
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2499 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
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2500 without changing the column.
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2501 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
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2502 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
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vimboss
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2503 current buffer.
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2504 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
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2505 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
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2506 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
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2507 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
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2508 6 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
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2509 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
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diff changeset
2510 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
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vimboss
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2511 or other special character.
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vimboss
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2512 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
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2513
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2514
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2515 More advanced repeating commands:
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2516 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
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2517 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
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2518 the command line so that it can be repeated?
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2519 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
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vimboss
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2520 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
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vimboss
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2521 "y." will repeat last yank.
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2522 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
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vimboss
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2523 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
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vimboss
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2524 and/or pick an older command.
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2525 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
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parents:
diff changeset
2526
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diff changeset
2527
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2528 Mappings and Abbreviations:
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2529 8 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
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vimboss
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diff changeset
2530 ":verbose set".
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2531 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
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vimboss
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diff changeset
2532 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
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parents:
diff changeset
2533 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
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2534 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
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parents:
diff changeset
2535 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2536 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
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parents:
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2537 8 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2538 m_script_ID can be used.
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parents:
diff changeset
2539 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2540 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
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parents:
diff changeset
2541 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2542 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2543 entering search strings.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2544 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
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vimboss
parents:
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2545 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2546 not the <Space>.
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parents:
diff changeset
2547 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
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parents:
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2548 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2549 (?) work.
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parents:
diff changeset
2550 7 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2551 set".
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parents:
diff changeset
2552 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2553 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2554 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
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parents:
diff changeset
2555 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
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parents:
diff changeset
2556 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2557 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2558 option.
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parents:
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2559 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2560 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
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parents:
diff changeset
2561 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
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parents:
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2562 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
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parents:
diff changeset
2563 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
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parents:
diff changeset
2564 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
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parents:
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2565 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
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parents:
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2566 abbreviations are to be used.
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parents:
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2567 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
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parents:
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2568 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2569 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
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parents:
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2570 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
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parents:
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2571 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
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vimboss
parents:
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2572 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2573 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
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parents:
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2574 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2575 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
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parents:
diff changeset
2576 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2577 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
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parents:
diff changeset
2578 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2579 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
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parents:
diff changeset
2580 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
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vimboss
parents:
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2581 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
2582 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
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vimboss
parents:
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2583 hit another character.
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parents:
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2584 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
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parents:
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2585 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
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parents:
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2586 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
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parents:
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2587 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
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parents:
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2588 Or implicit:
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parents:
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2589 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
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parents:
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2590 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
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vimboss
parents:
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2591 non-replace Insert mode?
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parents:
diff changeset
2592 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
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2593 6 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
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2594 mappings with arguments.
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2595 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
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2596 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
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2597 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
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2598 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
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2599 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
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2600 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
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2601 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
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2602 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
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2603 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
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2604 ":freekeys".
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2605 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
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2606
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2607
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2608 Incsearch:
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2609 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
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2610 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
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2611 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
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2612 up every time.
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2613 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
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2614 folds when going to another line.
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2615 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
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2616 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
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2617 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
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2618 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
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2619 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
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2620 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
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2621
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2622
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2623 Searching:
40
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2624 7 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
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2625 "g?" is already used for rot13.
7
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2626 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands
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2627 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom.
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2628 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
7
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2629 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
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2630 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
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2631 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
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2632 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
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2633 search(). (Brett)
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2634 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
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2635 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
7
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2636 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
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2637 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
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2638 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
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2639 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
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2640 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
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2641 line.
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2642 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
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2643 example.
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2644 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
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2645 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
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2646 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
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2647 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
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2648 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
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2649 Alternative: use matchit.vim
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2650 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
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2651 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
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2652 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
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2653 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
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2654 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
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2655 "\d".
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2656 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
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2657 \%<C-M>.
7
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2658 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
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2659 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
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2660 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
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2661 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
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2662 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
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2663 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
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2664 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
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2665 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
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2666 search pattern.
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2667 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
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2668 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
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2669 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
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2670 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
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2671 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
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2672 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
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2673 7 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
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2674 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
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2675 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
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diff changeset
2676 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
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2677 i ignore case
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2678 I use case
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diff changeset
2679 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
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2680 v use Vi regexp syntax
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2681 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
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2682 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
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2683 Perl uses these too:
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2684 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
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2685 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
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2686 o compile only once (Perl only)
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2687 s single line expression (we don't need it)
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2688 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
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2689 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
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2690 following command.
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diff changeset
2691 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
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2692 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
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2693 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
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diff changeset
2694 for search string)?
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2695 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
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2696 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
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2697 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
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2698 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
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2699 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
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2700 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
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2701 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
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2702 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
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2703 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
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2704 a for the next file in the argument list
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2705 f for file in the buffer list
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2706 w for file edited in a window.
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2707 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
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2708 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
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2709 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
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2710 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
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2711 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
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2712 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
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2713 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
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2714 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
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2715 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
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2716 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
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2717 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
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2718 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
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2719 effects.
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2720 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
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2721 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
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2722 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
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2723 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron)
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2724 Also ":dselect".
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2725
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2726
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2727 Undo:
26
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2728 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
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2729 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
7
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2730 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
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2731 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
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2732 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
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2733 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
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2734 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
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2735 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
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2736 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
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2737 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
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2738 only remember the lines that really changed.
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2739 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
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2740 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
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2741 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
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2742 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
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2743 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
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2744 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
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2745 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
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2746 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
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2747 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
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2748 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
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2749 [-99].
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2750 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
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2751 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
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2752 - Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
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2753 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
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parents:
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2754 viminfo?
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2755 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
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2756 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
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parents:
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2757
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2758
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2759 Buffer list:
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2760 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
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2761 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
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2762 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
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2763 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
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2764 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
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2765 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
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2766 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
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2767 inode too.
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2768 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
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2769 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest
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2770 number in use plus one?)
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2771 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
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2772 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
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2773 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
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2774 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
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2775 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
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2776 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
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2777 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
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2778 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
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2779 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
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2780 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
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2781 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
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2782 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
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2783 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
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2784 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
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2785 internal use and for when executing an external program?
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2786
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2787
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2788 Swap (.swp) files:
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2789 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
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2790 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
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2791 there are short file name problems.
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2792 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
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2793 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
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2794 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
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2795 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
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2796 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
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2797 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
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2798 file the same as the actual file?
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2799 Use the code for resolve()?
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2800 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
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2801 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
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2802 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
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2803 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
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2804 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
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2805 enough room.
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2806 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
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2807 or /var/preserve.
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2808 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
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2809 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
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2810 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
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2811 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
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2812 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
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2813 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
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2814 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
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2815 cached list of which line is where.
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2816
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2817
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2818 Viminfo:
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2819 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
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2820 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
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2821 else's viminfo file.
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2822 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
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2823 name. (Schild)
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2824 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
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2825 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
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2826 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
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2827 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
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2828 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
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2829 this?
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2830 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
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2831 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
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2832 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
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2833 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
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2834 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
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2835 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
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2836 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
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2837 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
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2838
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2839
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2840 Modelines:
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2841 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
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2842 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
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2843 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
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2844 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
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2845 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
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2846 modeline setting.
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2847 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
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2848 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
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2849 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
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2850 .cpp files.
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2851 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
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2852 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
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2853 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
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2854 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
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diff changeset
2855
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2856
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2857 Options:
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2858 8 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
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2859 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
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2860 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
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2861 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
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2862 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
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2863 side effect.
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2864 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
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2865 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
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2866 default value.
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2867 8 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the
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2868 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word
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2869 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice:
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2870 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated)
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2871 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file)
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diff changeset
2872 "nodir" (don't cd at all)
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2873 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
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2874 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
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2875 also be supported.
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2876 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
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2877 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
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2878 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
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2879 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
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2880 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
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2881 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
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2882 7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
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2883 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
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2884
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2885
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2886 External commands:
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2887 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
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2888 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
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2889 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
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2890 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
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2891 -f).
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2892 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
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2893 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
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2894 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
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2895 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
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2896
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2897
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2898 Multiple Windows:
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2899 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
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2900 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
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2901 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
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2902 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
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2903 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
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2904 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
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2905 7 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
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2906 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
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2907 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
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2908 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
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2909 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
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2910 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
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2911 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
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2912 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
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2913 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
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2914 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
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2915 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
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2916 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
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2917 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
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2918
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2919
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2920 Marks:
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2921 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
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2922 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
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2923 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
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2924 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
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2925 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
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2926 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
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2927 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
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2928 the mark was set.
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2929 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
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2930 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
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2931 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
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2932 ":browse marks"?
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2933 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
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2934 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
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2935 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
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2936 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
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2937 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
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2938 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
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2939 command).
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2940 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
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2941 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
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2942 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
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2943 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
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2944 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
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2945 mappings.
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2946 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
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2947 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
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2948 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
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diff changeset
2949
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2950
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2951 Digraphs:
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2952 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
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diff changeset
2953 Also the keymap?
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2954 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
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2955 below/above).
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2956 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
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2957 characters?
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2958 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
7
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2959 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
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2960 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
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2961
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2962
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2963 Writing files:
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2964 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
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2965 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
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2966 shortname conversion.
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2967 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
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2968 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
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2969 file.
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2970 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
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parents:
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2971 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
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parents:
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2972 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
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diff changeset
2973 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
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2974 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
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parents:
diff changeset
2975 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
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parents:
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2976 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
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parents:
diff changeset
2977 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
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parents:
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2978 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
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parents:
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2979 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
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parents:
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2980 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
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parents:
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2981 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
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parents:
diff changeset
2982 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
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parents:
diff changeset
2983 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
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parents:
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2984 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
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parents:
diff changeset
2985 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
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parents:
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2986 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
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2987 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
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parents:
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2988 waiting for a character to be typed).
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parents:
diff changeset
2989 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
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diff changeset
2990 line of the window, like "[time]".
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parents:
diff changeset
2991 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
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parents:
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2992 Automatic and/or with a command.
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diff changeset
2993
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2994
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2995 Substitute:
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2996 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
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2997 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
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2998 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
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diff changeset
2999 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
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parents:
diff changeset
3000 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
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parents:
diff changeset
3001 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
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parents:
diff changeset
3002 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
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parents:
diff changeset
3003 :s///N substitutes N times.
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parents:
diff changeset
3004 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
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parents:
diff changeset
3005 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
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parents:
diff changeset
3006 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
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parents:
diff changeset
3007 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
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parents:
diff changeset
3008 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
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parents:
diff changeset
3009 last line column 5.
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parents:
diff changeset
3010 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
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parents:
diff changeset
3011 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3012 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
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parents:
diff changeset
3013 (Stanislav Sitar)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3014
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parents:
diff changeset
3015
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parents:
diff changeset
3016 Mouse support:
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parents:
diff changeset
3017 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
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parents:
diff changeset
3018 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3019 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3020 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3021 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3022 7 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3023 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3024 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3025 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3026 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3027 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3028
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parents:
diff changeset
3029
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parents:
diff changeset
3030 Crypt and security:
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3031 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3032 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3033
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parents:
diff changeset
3034
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parents:
diff changeset
3035 Argument list:
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parents:
diff changeset
3036 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3037 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3038 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3039 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3040
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parents:
diff changeset
3041
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parents:
diff changeset
3042 Registers:
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parents:
diff changeset
3043 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
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parents:
diff changeset
3044 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3045 around in windows.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3046 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3047 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3048 for every line.
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parents:
diff changeset
3049 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3050 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3051 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3052 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3053 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3054 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3055 leader when line wraps?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3056 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3057 line in the range.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3058 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3059 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3060 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3061 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
8
7edf9b6e4c36 Various changes
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diff changeset
3062
7
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parents:
diff changeset
3063
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parents:
diff changeset
3064 Debug mode:
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3065 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3066 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
9
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parents: 8
diff changeset
3067 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
7
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parents:
diff changeset
3068 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
23
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vimboss
parents: 22
diff changeset
3069 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
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vimboss
parents: 22
diff changeset
3070 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
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parents: 22
diff changeset
3071 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
7
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3072 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3073 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3074
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parents:
diff changeset
3075
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3076 Various improvements:
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parents:
diff changeset
3077 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
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parents:
diff changeset
3078 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
41
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diff changeset
3079 - Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
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parents: 40
diff changeset
3080 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
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diff changeset
3081 Govindachar)
7
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parents:
diff changeset
3082 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
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parents:
diff changeset
3083 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
22
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diff changeset
3084 7 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string
cc049b00ee70 updated for version 7.0014
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3085 variable. Also accept a list variable?
7
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diff changeset
3086 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3087 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3088 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
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parents:
diff changeset
3089 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3090 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3091 window as a buffer-tab selection.
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parents:
diff changeset
3092 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3093 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
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parents:
diff changeset
3094 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3095 all changes are gone.
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parents:
diff changeset
3096 7 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3097 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3098 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3099 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3100 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3101 in this Vim.
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parents:
diff changeset
3102 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3103 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3104 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3105 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3106 have it apply to the following command.
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parents:
diff changeset
3107 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
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3108 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3109 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3110 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
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parents:
diff changeset
3111 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
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3112 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
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3113 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
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3114 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
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3115 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
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3116 without modifier (unless mapped).
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3117 8 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
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3118 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
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3119 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
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3120 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
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3121 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
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3122 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
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3123 highlighted differently.
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3124 8 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
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3125 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
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3126 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
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3127 (truncated to fit in the space).
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3128 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
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3129 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
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3130 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
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3131 Visual mode.
8
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3132 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
7
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3133 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
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3134 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
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3135 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
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3136 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
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3137 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
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3138 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
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3139 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
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3140 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
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3141 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
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3142 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
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3143 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
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3144 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
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3145 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
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3146 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
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3147 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
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3148 8 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
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3149 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
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3150 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
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3151 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
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3152 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
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3153 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
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3154 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
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3155 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
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3156 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
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3157 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
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3158 does something like this. (Shah)
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3159 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
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3160 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
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3161 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
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3162 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
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3163 8 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
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3164 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
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3165 line down, etc.
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3166 8 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
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3167 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
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3168 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
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3169 to be made for all functions that list something.
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3170 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
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3171 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
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3172 - Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
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3173 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
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3174 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
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3175 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
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3176 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
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3177 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
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3178 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
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3179 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
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3180 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
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3181 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
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3182 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
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3183 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
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3184 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
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3185 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
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3186 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
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3187 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
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3188 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
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3189 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
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3190 call "play newbeep.au").
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3191 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
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3192 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
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3193 (Bhatt).
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3194 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
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3195 blockwise registers).
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3196 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
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3197 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
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3198 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
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3199 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
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3200 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
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3201 noticeable.
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3202 9 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
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3203 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
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3204 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
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3205 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
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3206 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
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3207 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
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3208 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
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3209 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
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3210 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
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3211 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
21
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3212 7 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
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3213 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
7
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3214 8 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
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3215 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
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3216 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
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3217 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
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3218 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
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3219 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
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3220 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
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3221 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
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3222 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
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3223 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
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3224 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
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3225 not in column 1.
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3226 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
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3227 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
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3228 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
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3229 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
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3230 8 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
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3231 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
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3232 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
121
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3233 :redir @r> register (append)
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3234 :redir #> bufname
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3235 :redir #>> bufname (append)
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3236 :redir => variable
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3237 :redir =>> variable (append)
7
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3238 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
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3239 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
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3240 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
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3241 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
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3242 console? (Klaus Hast)
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3243 - Add :delcr command:
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3244 *:delcr*
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3245 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
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3246 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
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3247 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
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3248 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
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3249 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
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3250 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
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3251 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
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3252 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
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3253 characters from 'isprint'.
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3254 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
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3255 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
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3256 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
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3257 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
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3258 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
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3259 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
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3260 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
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3261 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
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3262 Nvi).
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3263 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
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3264 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
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3265 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
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3266 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
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3267 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
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3268 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
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3269 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
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3270 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
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3271 macro).
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3272 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
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3273 - Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match
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3274 to jump to. (Zellner)
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3275 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
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3276 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
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diff changeset
3277 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
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3278 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
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diff changeset
3279 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
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diff changeset
3280 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
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diff changeset
3281 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
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vimboss
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diff changeset
3282 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
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vimboss
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3283 if it is not the first or last window.
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parents:
diff changeset
3284 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3285 there is one) instead of the file itself.
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parents:
diff changeset
3286 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
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vimboss
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diff changeset
3287 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3288 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3289 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3290 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3291 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3292 many percent down the windows).
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parents:
diff changeset
3293 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3294 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3295 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3296 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3297 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3298 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3299 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3300 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
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parents:
diff changeset
3301 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
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parents:
diff changeset
3302 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3303 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3304 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3305 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3306 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3307 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3308 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3309 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3310 t_bs is set? (Webb)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3311 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3312 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
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parents:
diff changeset
3313 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3314 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3315 (Webb).
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parents:
diff changeset
3316 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
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parents:
diff changeset
3317 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
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parents:
diff changeset
3318 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
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parents:
diff changeset
3319 hex codes like 0xff).
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parents:
diff changeset
3320 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3321 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3322 the last TYPED command.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3323 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
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parents:
diff changeset
3324 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3325 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3326 should also work?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3327 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3328 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3329 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3330 name.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3331 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3332 trailing '.'.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3333 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3334 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3335 find_file_in_path().
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3336 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3337 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3338 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3339 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3340 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3341 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3342 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3343 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3344 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3345 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3346 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3347 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3348 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3349 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3350 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3351 to the minimal size.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3352 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3353 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3354 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3355 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3356 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3357 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3358 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3359 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3360 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3361 entered)?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3362 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3363 as an output filter.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3364 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3365 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3366 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3367 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3368 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3369 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3370 lines.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3371 - Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3372 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3373 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3374 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3375 or in octal.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3376 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3377 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3378 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3379 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3380 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3381 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3382 insert line command).
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3383 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3384 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3385 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3386 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3387 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3388 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3389 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3390 yet.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3391 - Implement 'redraw' option.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3392 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3393 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3394 - Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3395 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3396 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3397 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3398 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3399 do it.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3400 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3401 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3402 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3403 - Add text justification option.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3404 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3405 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3406 off".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3407 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3408 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3409 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3410 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3411 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3412 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3413 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3414 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3415 commands.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3416 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3417 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3418 - :table command (Webb)
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3419 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3420 - Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3421 internal scripting language or Perl?
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3422 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3423 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3424 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3425 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3426 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3427 (Demirel).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3428 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3429 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3430 for use in macro's and the like.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3431 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3432 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3433 - Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3434 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3435 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3436 read-only mode).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3437 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3438 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3439 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3440 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3441 proportionally (Webb).
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
3442 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
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3443 mkopttab to make option table?
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3444 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
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3445 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
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3446 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
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3447 (Haritsis).
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3448 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
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3449 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
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3450 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
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3451 cursor?
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3452 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
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3453 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
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3454 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
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3455 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
9
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3456 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
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3457 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
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3458 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
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3459 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
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3460 option name.
7
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3461 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
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3462 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
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3463 (Netherton)
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3464 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
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3465 space after "(", for example.
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3466 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
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3467 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
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3468 (Servatius Brandt)
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3469
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3470
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3471 From Elvis:
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3472 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
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3473 - Add ":alias" command.
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3474 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
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3475 - Search patterns:
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3476 \@ match word under cursor.
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3477 but do:
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3478 \@w match the word under the cursor?
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3479 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
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3480 8 ":window" command:
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3481 :win + next window (up)
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3482 :win ++ idem, wrapping
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3483 :win - previous window (down)
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3484 :win -- idem, wrapping
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3485 :win nr to window number "nr"
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3486 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
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3487 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
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3488 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
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3489
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3490
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3491 From Nvi:
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3492 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
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3493 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
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3494 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
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3495 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
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3496 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
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3497 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
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3498 :bg :hide
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3499 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
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3500 :dis b :ls
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3501 :Edit fname :split fname
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3502 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
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3503 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
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3504 :Previous :sprevious
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3505 :Tag :stag
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3506
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3507
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3508 From xvi:
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3509 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
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3510 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
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3511
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3512
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3513 From vile:
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3514 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
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3515 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
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3516 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
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3517
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3518
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3519 Far future and "big" extensions:
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3520 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
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3521 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
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3522 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
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3523 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
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3524 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
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3525 current layout mirrored.
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3526 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
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3527 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
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3528 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
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3529 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
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3530 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
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3531 font in each top-level window.
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3532 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
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3533 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
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3534 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
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3535 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
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3536 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
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3537 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
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3538 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
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3539 mentioned in the tags file.
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3540 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
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3541 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
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3542 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
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3543 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
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3544 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
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3545 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
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3546 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
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3547 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
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3548 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
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3549 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
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3550 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
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3551 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
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3552 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
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3553 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
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3554 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
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3555 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
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3556
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3557
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3558 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
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3559 vim: set fo+=n :