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diff runtime/doc/todo.txt @ 557:862863033fdd v7.0158
updated for version 7.0158
author | vimboss |
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date | Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:25:05 +0000 |
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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: 2005 Oct 12 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Nov 23 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,18 +30,66 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vi *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- +Using chown() is unsafe. (Jinpeng Wei) + ex_cmds.c: viminfo tempfile: use mch_open(O_EXCL) and fdopen() + fileio.c: use fchown() instead of chown() + vim.h: define O_NOFOLLOW if needed. Not in Vim 6.4? + +Go over all changes between 6.3 and 6.4 and make sure they are included in 7. + +'statusline' is drawn over the Omni menu. + +Cygwin and Mac OS/X may preserve case for file names but ignore case +differences. Use Amiga code? + +"make unixall": remove split in floppy-size archives. + +To support mapping <F4> to be used as <F4>{motion}: Add operator that +executes a user defined function. '[ and '] marks are at start and end of +text. ":map <F4> :set opfunc=MyOp<CR>gy". + +Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto: ":e ++enc=xxx" keeps encoding for conversion +errors and illegal bytes. How about replacing bytes with '?' or not? + ccomplete: - When an option is set: In completion mode and the user types (identifier) characters, advance to the first match instead of removing the popup menu. If there is no match remove the selection. (Yegappan Lakshmanan) +- Complete the longest common match instead of the first match? +- !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT and it's ilk are listed in the global completions - When completing something that is a structure, add the "." or "->". - When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file? +- Window resize when poup is displayed +- page-up / page-down spelling: - When a recognized word ends in a . don't have 'spellcapcheck" match it. -- Use KEEPCASE instead of "KEP". applies to affixes too. +- Use KEEPCASE instead of "KEP". It applies to the word including affixes + Hunspell also uses it. +- Hunspell has NOSUGGEST flag (use for obscene words?) +- Check out Hunspell 1.1.2. - Look into hungarian dictionary: http://magyarispell.sourceforge.net/rc3-beta2.zip +- Support breakpoint character · 0xb7 and ignore it? +- Dutch word list should be available here: http://www.woordenlijst.org/ +8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to + obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen) +- Finding suggestions with sound folding is slow. Somehow store the + sound-folded words and link to the words it comes from? + +When editing a file "a" that is a symbolic link to "b", while another Vim is +editing "b", there is no warning. Follow symlink to make swap file name? +Patch from Stefano Zacchiroli. + +In diff mode deleting lines is very slow. E.g., when diffing two .po files +and then sourcing po/cleaup.vim. + +7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on + the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). + Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the + "format/chinese.vim" plugin. +Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. (2005 +Nov 24) Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): - selecting proportional font breaks display @@ -52,10 +100,15 @@ Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. (Alan Schmitt) +Patch to add a few flags to search(). (Benji Fisher, Nov 22) + Win32: Use the free downloadable compiler 7.1. Figure out how to do debugging (with Agide?) and describe it. (George Reilly) Try out using the free MS compiler and debugger, using Make_mvc.mak. +Win32: Check that installer puts menu items in "all users" dir when possible, +not administrator dir. + Autoload: - Add a Vim script in $VIMRUNTIME/tools that takes a file with a list of script names and a help file and produces a script that can be sourced to @@ -67,7 +120,8 @@ Autoload: helpfile doc/myscript.txt For the "helpfile" item ":helptags" is run. -Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? +Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? Otherwise: ":sunmap", so that Visual mode +mappings for normal keys can be removed from Select mode. Awaiting response: - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than @@ -88,6 +142,10 @@ PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: make it work for all completion methods. UI: + - Complete longest common string first, like 'wildmode' "longest:full". + - Add an "auto" mode: after typing a character (or string) completion is + done for the longest common string. plugin defines the possible + characters/strings. (Martin Stubenschrott) - GUI implementation of the popup menu. - When using tags, show match in preview window (function prototype, struct member, etc.). @@ -191,9 +249,9 @@ 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like sev For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. -- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, - assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it - generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb +- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye. + Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here: + http://clewn.sf.net. And the idevim plugin/script. To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the @@ -207,6 +265,7 @@ 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like sev implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198. + Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine) - 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. @@ -353,7 +412,9 @@ Awaiting updated patches: How does this work? Missing comments. gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) Update 2004 Sep 10 - More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? + Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) + Search in 'runtimepath'? + More docs about how to use this. How to get the messages into the .po files? --- did not respond (yet) -- - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav @@ -395,7 +456,7 @@ Awaiting updated patches: 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). - Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. + Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's @@ -791,7 +852,16 @@ 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See ex 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. -8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? +8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's + a good fallback, thus use: + $HOME + $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH + SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE); + $USERPROFILE + SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE); + $ALLUSERSPROFILE + $SYSTEMDRIVE\ + C:\ 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. @@ -1382,22 +1452,19 @@ 8 Install spell files with src/main.aa 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell. 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their use of words with a dash. -8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to - obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen) 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists. 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'? :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments in English, strings in German (po file). -8 Implement compound words when it works for Myspell. Current idea has the - problem that "foo/X" always allows "foofoo", there is no way to specify a - word can only be at the start or end, or that only certain words combine. Diff mode: 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis + Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what + can be undone. (Tom Popovich) 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same location. @@ -1575,6 +1642,11 @@ 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 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then + when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what + highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a + password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull) + syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern' 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like using "\1" in a ":s" command. 8 Support for deleting syntax items: @@ -3020,8 +3092,6 @@ 8 Add commands to save and restore an 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) -7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on - the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). External commands: @@ -3349,7 +3419,8 @@ 7 When formatting text, allow to break 7 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". 8 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the - builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. + builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. Or use a string that starts with "=" + in 'formatprg': "=MyFormat()". 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a