diff runtime/doc/todo.txt @ 26:404aac550f35 v7.0017

updated for version 7.0017
author vimboss
date Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:02:47 +0000
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-*todo.txt*      For Vim version 7.0aa.  Last change: 2004 Sep 13
+*todo.txt*      For Vim version 7.0aa.  Last change: 2004 Oct 07
 
 
 		  VIM REFERENCE MANUAL	  by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -30,18 +30,15 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vi
 							*known-bugs*
 -------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
 
-Endless loop when "syntax reset" in ~/.vim/after/syntax/syncolor.vim.
-Crash when using ":set background=dark".  Solved!
-Limit init_highlight() to five recursive calls?
-    patch for Vim 6.3 for free_oldval and init_highlight()?
+Add browsedir(): like browse() but for directories.
+    For GTK it already sort-of works when the default name is empty.
 
-Crash with long line. (Walter Briscoe, Sep 13)
-
-Add fix for appending BOM to 6.3?  Reported by Alex Jakushev.
+When ":file" sets the alternate file name and it's empty this doesn't make
+sense.  Could skip it, but would that break scripts that rely on the buffer to
+exist?
 
-Win32 console doesn't compile.  Does GetCommandLineW() work for non-GUI?
-(Dave Roberts)  If yes, then move the functions to another file.
-link with kernel32.lib?
+Folding support for 2html. (Carl Osterwisch, Oct 4)
+How to evaluate an expression in the sandbox?
 
 Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble:
     buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c)
@@ -59,7 +56,44 @@ Win32: When the path to a file has Russi
 work. (Valery Kondakoff)
 Solved in os_mswin.c.  Add to 6.3?
 
+Patch for Win32 textdomain: NAKADAIRA Yukihiro, Sept 17.
+
+GTK 2 error message with this sequence (Namsh Oct 7):
+	- start gvim with French locale
+	- set enc=utf-8
+	- :aunmenu *
+	- :unlet  did_install_default_menus
+	- :source $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim
+
 Valencia: executable("xxd.exe") returns true while "!xxd" doesn't work.
+Works fine for me.  Only in specific environment?
+
+netrw plugin: When coming back to the same directory a scratch buffer appears.
+Only on Win32. (Charles Campbell, Sept 15)
+
+New Eiffel indent script from Jocelyn Fiat.  OK with David Clarke.
+
+Win32: not using 'tenc' in GUI causes problems on Win 98?  (Jiri Jezdinsky)
+Try out with Russian input method.
+
+After "Y" '[ and '] are not at start/end of the yanked text. (Ken Clark)
+
+Patch for adding 'fsync' option: disable using fsync() on file write. (Sept.
+26, Ciaran McCreesh)
+
+Folding for C syntax: (Olaf Dabrunz 27 sept 2004)
+
+Add remark about using Vim with VS .net to Visvim docs. (David Fishburn, Sept
+27)
+
+Vim icon for documents associated with Vim? (Rahul Kulkarni, sept 28)
+
+Add a function to test if a font name actually works.
+
+When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you only get one line
+for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson)  When the Vim window is resized (e.g.,
+xterm with many lines) it's OK.
+
 
 For version 7.0:
 
@@ -70,6 +104,7 @@ For version 7.0:
     7   For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked
 	area.  Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb".  Patch from
 	Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11
+	When more than two lines: perform a search in the Visual area only.
     8   Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different
 	value.  But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan
 	has a patch, 2004 Jul 11)
@@ -168,6 +203,12 @@ For version 7.0:
     -   findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp.  See remark at
 	get_lisp_indent().  Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
 	incomplete patch Mar 18)
+    -	Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
+	the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
+	$MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
+	runtime files?
+	Also: when the environment variable exists, use it.  If it doesn't
+	exist, set it.  Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC  $VIM_USER_DIR
 
 
 -   In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting.
@@ -192,6 +233,8 @@ For version 7.0:
 	  the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
         - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
 	  times later.  Sort of global syntax items.
+	- Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell).  Work together with them to
+	  update the wordlist.  (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales)
 -   REFACTORING: The main() function is very long.  Move parts to separate
     functions, especially loops.  Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
     Feb 9).
@@ -205,9 +248,33 @@ For version 7.0:
 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
 	http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
 	Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
+    Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
+    Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
+    - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages.  Design an
+      interface for completion plugins.  The matches can be done in a
+      Vim-script list.
+    - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
+      Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
+    - Check Readline for its completion interface.
+    - Use ctags for other languages.  Writing a file could trigger running
+      ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
+-   UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
+    When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
+    info, make a new branch.
+    To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
+    sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
+    Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
+    minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
+    To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
+    again.
+    Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
+    text state in the tree?
+    Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
 -   PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
-    Support multiple threads.  Show the list of changes in a window to be able
-    to select a version.
+    Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
+    before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
+    keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.  For the file use dot and
+    extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
 7   SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix",
     Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos.  Same for
     non-default fileencoding.  (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17)
@@ -235,8 +302,12 @@ 7   Support WINDOW TABS.  Works like sev
 -   STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
     Especially when using the scrollbar.  Typing a cursor-movement command
     scrolls back to where the cursor is.
+-   Execute a function with standard option values.  No need to save and
+    restore option values.  Especially useful for new options.  Problem: how
+    to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
 8   Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
     Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
+    At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
 -   Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
     "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
 -   FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
@@ -265,6 +336,9 @@ 7   Make ":startinsert" command work dir
 -   "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line.  Patch by
     Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
 
+The fsync() in buf_write() causes laptop harddisk spinup.  Add an option to
+avoid it?
+
 Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"?  Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
 2004).  Should also work for 'filetype'.
 
@@ -274,6 +348,9 @@ Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13)
 Win32: In 'fileencodings' allow using "acp" for the active codepage.  Useful
 value: "ucs-bom,utf-8,acp,latin1"
 
+Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. (Giuseppe Bilotta,
+Oct 6 2004)
+
 For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
 windows.  Example:
     :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
@@ -291,6 +368,10 @@ Win32: In the generated batch files, use
 Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
 Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
 
+Support ":enew filename" to edit a new buffer with a name.  It's like "enew |
+file filename" but without setting the alternate file to a buffer without a
+name. (Charles Campbell)
+
 
 Vi incompatibility:
 9   In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan)
@@ -386,6 +467,7 @@ 7   DND doesn't work with KDE (also with
 
 KDE GUI known bugs:
 -   The default font is ugly.  bold text isn't displayed correctly.
+    (bold characters are half the width of normal characters)
 -   Error messages when starting up.  The "tip of the day" box is empty.
 -   Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
 
@@ -2041,6 +2123,7 @@ 8   When editing "tt.gz", which is in DO
     *Leave	    - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
     VimLeaveCheck    - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
 		      when exiting isn't a good idea.
+    WinMoved	    - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
     CmdUndefined    - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
     SearchPost	    - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
     PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
@@ -2511,8 +2594,6 @@ 6   Context-sensitive abbreviations: Spe
 -   Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
     a mapping).  Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
     that it included.  Sort-of automatic recording?
--   Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
-    trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
 -   Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
     <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M).  Or just always do this?
 -   Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
@@ -2663,6 +2744,8 @@ 7   Add ":iselect", a combination of ":i
 
 
 Undo:
+-   Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
+    trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
 -   When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
     possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn)  Also for "i", "a",
     etc.  Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
@@ -2676,9 +2759,6 @@ 7   Add undo for a range of lines.  Can 
     version without changing the rest of the file.  Stop doing this when a
     change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count.  Need
     to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
-7   Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future
-    undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch.  How to navigate through the
-    undo tree?
 -   For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
     And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
 -   In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
@@ -2897,7 +2977,7 @@ 7   Make "ga" show the digraph for a cha
     below/above).
 -   Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
     characters?
-8   Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown)
+8   Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
 7   Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?).  At
     least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).