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--- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/todo.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 13 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 16 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,22 +30,241 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vi *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- -GTK2: font dialog uses font size zero when 'guifont' is "Courier". Patch from -Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2004 June 8. +This example doesn't work: + :e `=foo . ".c" ` +Inside `` don't use " as the start of a comment. +Also don't expand % or #. -Python indent: # aser: still adds extra indent. +Corrections for docs from A3. Skip ones already done. For version 7.0: - Include many PATCHES: + 9 Win32 GuI: The print dialog uses a font which doesn't display multi-byte + messages. Include patch from Vipin Aravind? Update from Yasuhiro + Matsumoto. + 8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind. + 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, + but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) + 8 On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't defined. Include patch from Cristiano De + Michele. He no longer has such a machine. + 8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or + fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing + the file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . + Do we still want this/ + 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that + trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). + :au Event <buffer> do-something + E.g.: + :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... + :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... + Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). + He'll send updated patch. + Autocommands: + VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) + patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. + He'll write documentation and send updated patch. - Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand) Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well. + Mickael will update the patch before 21st. + --- responses above + 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). + Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last + line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. + 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki + (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. + 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from + Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. + 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina + (28 feb 2002). + 8 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard + Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim-icns/TransBack.diff + 8 Patches from "Rain Dog" Cucka: + - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) + - scrollbar (2002 Dec 8) + - Quartz fonts (2002 Dec 8) + 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears + before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. + 8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes + Zellner has a patch for this. + 8 ":hardcopy": + - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun + 14) + - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu + Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) + 9 Merge in ideas from ~/vim/patches/tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann) + 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? + - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work + for multi-byte characters. + 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): + 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. + Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like + 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to + separate the from and to part is optional. + - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. + - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) + use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not + been given values. + Add section in help files for these highlight groups? + 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm + with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . + 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin + Dalecki has a patch for Motif) + - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a + line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). + Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. + 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, + set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. + Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for + underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. + Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current + line. + 7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of + arguments: + :function Foo(abc, ...) + : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) + Charles Campbell has a patch for this + 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. + Aric Blumer has a patch for this. + 8 Add functions: + tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 + 2004) + strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, + 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) + Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. + mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross + Presser) + He will send a new patch. + Is this really useful? + --- + multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. + Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 + menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) + Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. + menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". + menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu + File.Open..." argument. + Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 + mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. + Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. + match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match + Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 31 + find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes + Zellner 2001 Dec 20) + realname() Get user name (first, last, full) + user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov + 3 2002) + getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" + (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) + getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? + (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) + setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan + Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) + winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai + Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from + Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) + search() Add optional offset argument. + Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull + 2003 Jan 13) + confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical + layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) + Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag + (2003 May 13) + system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command + {cmd} and return the result. + (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) + raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for + Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) + gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro + Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the + .po files? + 7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. + 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions + better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) + 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching + tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. + 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 + Jan 11. + - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. + 8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of + completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26. + 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. + 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after + the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. + (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. Rich has + a suggestion for a patch to fix this. + e-mail to Rich bounced. + 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? + Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). + And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, + http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) + 8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string. + (Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16). + 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. + 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right + to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) + 8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of + the current buffer. (2003 June 17) + 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that + does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the + ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) + 7 Win32: Add patch for 5-button mouse. (Michael Geddes 2001 Nov 26) + 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). + Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. + 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). + 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) + 7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ + (Sergey Khorev) + 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, 2002 feb 15) + 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's + done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. + 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David + Kotchan has a patch for it) + 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in + pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way + to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each + individual modified key. + Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, + with modifiers. + 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See + patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. + Or use emacs server kind of thing? + 7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight + positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the + length of the file? + Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) + Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) + Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) + 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. + - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at + get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, + incomplete patch Mar 18) + 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore + case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in + filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: + ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another + option name. +- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be + incremented/decremented each time. - new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. + Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. - Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. + 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. + ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes + ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". + "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for + approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). - REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 Feb 9). +- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific + code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific + code menu, toolbar, etc. - Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" like commands. - "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. @@ -81,6 +300,7 @@ 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. +8 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) Vi incompatibility: @@ -135,9 +355,6 @@ 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes < (Sayre). 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). -7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). - Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last - line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next match. Nvi can do it too. @@ -210,8 +427,6 @@ 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim tit Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 8 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) -9 The print dialog uses a font which doesn't display multi-byte messages. - Include patch from Vipin Aravind? Update from Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it appear. (Sami Salonen) 8 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) @@ -311,10 +526,6 @@ 5 When starting gvim with all the defa Motif GUI: 8 Popup menu ordering is wrong. -8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki - (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. -7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from Martin - Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 8 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. @@ -344,7 +555,6 @@ 8 When fontset support is enabled, set doesn't work. 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. -8 Add a few more command names. Patch from Jiri Brezina (28 feb 2002). 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for browse(). 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, @@ -491,7 +701,6 @@ 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file s a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? -8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when exiting. @@ -516,12 +725,6 @@ 7 Loading the Perl library only works 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. -8 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard - Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim-icns/TransBack.diff -8 Patches from "Rain Dog" Cucka: - - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) - - scrollbar (2002 Dec 8) - - Quartz fonts (2002 Dec 8) 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. @@ -563,8 +766,6 @@ 7 After running "make test" the window when compiled with Python (threading). 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 'termencoding'. -7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears before - "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when @@ -651,8 +852,6 @@ 9 When getting focus while writing a l 9 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an error number. 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. -8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes - Zellner has a patch for this. 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. @@ -678,13 +877,10 @@ 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switchi 8 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8 ":hardcopy": - - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 11) - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. - Need to handle unprintable characters. - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform dithering to make grey text? - - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu Ichimura. - New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. @@ -817,7 +1013,6 @@ 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. -8 On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't defined. Include patch from Cristiano De Michele. 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and "initdir" is the default path to be used. @@ -927,7 +1122,6 @@ Problems that will (probably) not be sol Documentation: 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) -9 Merge in ideas from ~/vim/patches/tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann) 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: - change to cursor position and curswant @@ -989,9 +1183,6 @@ 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty item?). Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. -8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or - fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing the - file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? @@ -1065,14 +1256,10 @@ 7 When converting a file fails, mentio so that the user can fix the problem. 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo Schweigert) -8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. -- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work for - multi-byte characters. 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. -8 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 8 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 7 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. @@ -1122,7 +1309,6 @@ Printing: - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer name, portrait/landscape, etc). -- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. - PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support different 'encoding' values somehow. - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same @@ -1133,10 +1319,6 @@ 8 Make the foreground color darkening Syntax highlighting: -- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) - use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not - been given values. - Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined @@ -1184,8 +1366,6 @@ 8 When listing syntax items, try to so re-insert the [] if possible. 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for the Cursor). -8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm with - an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like using "\1" in a ":s" command. 8 Support for deleting syntax items: @@ -1204,8 +1384,6 @@ 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" h character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. -7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin - Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to @@ -1236,11 +1414,6 @@ 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled words. -8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. - ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes ispell - inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". "engspchk" from - Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for approximate-regexps will help - (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 7 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight. @@ -1267,9 +1440,6 @@ 6 Add possibility to have background c - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful when extending an already existing syntax file. - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? -- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a - line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). - Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin (for comment blocks). - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: @@ -1303,11 +1473,6 @@ 8 Add referring to key options with "& 8 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 8 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 'shellslash', for example. -7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of - arguments: - :function Foo(abc, ...) - : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) - Charles Campbell has a patch for this 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an @@ -1329,26 +1494,10 @@ 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts int file belongs to a sourced script? 7 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey Marinichev) -8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. - Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', signs and/or 'number'. 8 Add functions: - multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 - menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) - Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. - menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". - menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu - File.Open..." argument. - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 - mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. - match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 31 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? - mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross - Presser) attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" mkdir(dir) Create directory copy(from, to) Copy a file @@ -1360,48 +1509,15 @@ 8 Add functions: Visual block mode. tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) - tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 - 2004) - find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes - Zellner 2001 Dec 20) - realname() Get user name (first, last, full) - user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov - 3 2002) - getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" - (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) - getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? - (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) - setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan - Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) getbufline() get line from any buffer deletebufline() delete line in any buffer appendbufline() append line in any buffer - winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai - Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from - Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) - search() Add optional offset argument. - Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull - 2003 Jan 13) sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: ":sort". libcall() Allow more than one argument. libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function to allow the library to execute a command or evaluate an expression. - confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical - layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) - Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag - (2003 May 13) - system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command - {cmd} and return the result. - (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) - raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for - Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) - gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro - Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the - .po files? - strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, - 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the @@ -1440,12 +1556,6 @@ 7 Add function to generate unique numb 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an option for the search path. (Sekera) 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. -7 Include support for arrays? Patch from Robert Webb. - This is restricted to fixed-size arrays indexed by number. Better: Use - associative arrays: a[5] = 3, a["some"] = 'x'. Implement by translating - into ordinary variables: a[5] is "-a-5", a["some"] is "a-some", a[5][6] is - "a-5-6". But how to do array assignment and concatenation? - Alternative: use dictionaries, like Python. Robustness: @@ -1617,7 +1727,6 @@ 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. -7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. Scrolling: @@ -1655,8 +1764,6 @@ 8 Some compilers don't give an error f Perl interface: 8 Rename typemap file to something else? -7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions better. - Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). @@ -1710,8 +1817,6 @@ 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to pos 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". -7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching - tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. Security: @@ -1758,8 +1863,6 @@ 7 The "-P" argument only works for the GUI: -8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, - but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. @@ -1781,8 +1884,6 @@ 8 Make the split into system independe explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow running them in separate processes. -8 Support a background bitmap. Useful for marking a column. Patch from - Heather Downs (GTK) and Vince Negri (Win32). 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. @@ -1793,8 +1894,6 @@ 8 Should take font from xterm where gv 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a bit more work. -7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan - 11. 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a @@ -1838,7 +1937,6 @@ 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. - Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we get it back if we want it? -- Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. - Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be changeable with an option? - Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). @@ -1898,13 +1996,6 @@ 7 Add something to break the autocomma 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. -8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that - trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). - :au Event <buffer> do-something - E.g.: - :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... - :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... - Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). - Add events to autocommands: Error - When an error happens NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode @@ -1937,8 +2028,6 @@ 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Redu that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) WinResized - When a window has been resized - VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) - patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. - Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the file now and then ('autosave'). *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* @@ -1961,8 +2050,6 @@ 8 The code has become too complex. Re 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: - ignore/match case - different characters than 'iskeyword' -8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of - completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26. 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of @@ -2045,7 +2132,6 @@ 8 With command line completion after ' file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list them with the optional part inside []. -7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be edited. (Sven Guckes) 7 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. @@ -2083,10 +2169,6 @@ Command line history: Insert mode: -9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after - the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. - (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. Rich has a - suggestion for a patch to fix this. 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do @@ -2094,10 +2176,6 @@ 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, th ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. -7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? - Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). - And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, - http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed @@ -2261,8 +2339,6 @@ 7 Add objects with backwards extension deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). -8 Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string. (Tim Chase) - Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16). 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. @@ -2308,7 +2384,7 @@ 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David Young is working on this) 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. - When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, padd with + When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. @@ -2323,9 +2399,6 @@ 7 In Visual block mode, need to be abl the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, without changing the column. 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. -7 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. 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the current buffer. 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. @@ -2460,8 +2533,6 @@ 7 Add an option to accept a match at t search(). (Brett) 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. -7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right to - left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current @@ -2590,8 +2661,6 @@ 7 Add an undo tree: When making a chan Buffer list: -8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of the - current buffer. (2003 June 17) 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the @@ -2769,9 +2838,6 @@ 7 Make a list of file marks in a separ to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with ":browse marks"? 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) -8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that does - this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the ":delmark" - command (2004 Feb 9) 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). @@ -2855,7 +2921,6 @@ 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, disp Mouse support: -7 Win32: Add patch for 5-button mouse. (Michael Geddes 2001 Nov 26) 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic @@ -2872,9 +2937,6 @@ 7 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD cons Crypt and security: 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? -7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). -8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). - Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Argument list: @@ -2904,7 +2966,7 @@ 6 When yanking into the unnamed regist to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? -7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) + Debug mode: 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. @@ -2919,8 +2981,6 @@ 7 Make the debug mode history availabl Various improvements: 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename the buffer. Buffer may be modified. -7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ - (Sergey Khorev) 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) @@ -2933,13 +2993,8 @@ 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until all changes are gone. -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, - 2002 feb 15) 7 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) -8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's - done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it @@ -2953,16 +3008,8 @@ 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileform CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? -7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David Kotchan - has a patch for it) 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. -8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in pl - 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way to - prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each - individual modified key. - Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, - with modifiers. 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key @@ -2984,26 +3031,13 @@ 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise Visual mode. -7 Enhance termreponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use +7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". -7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): - 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. - Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like - 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to - separate the from and to part is optional. 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. -9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, set - highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. - Also cursor-row highlighting. - Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. - Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line. 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? -8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See patches - from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. - Or use emacs server kind of thing? 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for @@ -3043,11 +3077,6 @@ 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used b 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use "3 g CTRL-^" for this? -7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight positions is - often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the length of the file? - Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) - Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) - Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c @@ -3075,7 +3104,6 @@ 7 Add a way to change an operator to a 9 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). -7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs @@ -3101,8 +3129,6 @@ 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 8 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) -- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at get_lisp_indent(). - Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, incomplete patch Mar 18) - Add more redirecting of Ex commands: :redir @> register (append) :redir # bufname @@ -3335,11 +3361,6 @@ 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. -8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore case - of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in filenames is - ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: - ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another - option name. 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. (Netherton)