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1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Dec 31
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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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19 5 should be included
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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 When using ":new" relative cursor position causes first line to disappear.
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34 (Jens Paulus, Opening a new window)
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36 Awaiting response:
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37 - Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c
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38 - patch for MakePre and MakePost autocommands. (Ciaran McCreesh)
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39 - Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. Using
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40 gui_mch_dialog() would be good, but need to move display_errors() to after
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41 creating the window, so that s_hwnd is valid.
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42 How to add a scrollbar to the dialog?
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43 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
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44 the screen.
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45 - Included NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20)
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46 See two messages for list of changed files. Additionally:
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47 doc/eval.txt
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48 Docs for message E680.
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49 Docs for ":nbkey".
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50 Asked Gordon to send the differences again, some parts apparently are
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51 missing.
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54 PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
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56 - For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination?
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57 + can include NUL characters
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58 - setline() will have problems with NL vs NUL.
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59 Can use list of numbers instead (inefficient though).
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60 - new DATA TYPES:
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61 - None? (or use empty string?)
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62 - list
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63 - dictionary
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64 - function reference
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65 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support.
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66 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt.
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67 - Add "{range}execute": execute lines from a buffer.
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68 - Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages.
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69 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow.
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70 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes
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71 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell".
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72 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for
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73 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/).
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74 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to
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75 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains
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76 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change
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77 the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
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78 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
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79 times later. Sort of global syntax items.
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80 - Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell). Work together with them to
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81 update the wordlist. (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales)
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82 - Patch from Martin Dalecki. (2004 Dec) Uses ispell
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83 implements "undercurl" attribute. But how to set its color?
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84 Perhaps use "guicurl=Red" instead?
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85 - REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
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86 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
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87 Feb 9).
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88 - Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
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89 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
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90 code menu, toolbar, etc.
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91 - Support using "**" in filename for ":next", ":vimgrep", etc., so that a
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92 directory tree can be searched.
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93 - Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
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94 like commands.
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95 - "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
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96 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
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97 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
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98 of http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
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99 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
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100 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
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101 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
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102 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
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103 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
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104 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
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105 Vim-script list.
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106 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
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107 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
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108 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
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109 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
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110 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
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111 - UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
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112 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
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113 info, make a new branch.
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114 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
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115 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
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116 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
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117 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
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118 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
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119 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
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120 again.
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121 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
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122 text state in the tree?
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123 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
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124 - PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
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125 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
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126 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
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127 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
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128 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
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129 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
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130 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
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131 Also for the console!
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132 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
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133 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
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134 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
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135 - EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
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136 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
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137 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
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138 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
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139 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
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140 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
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141 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
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142 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
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143 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
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144 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
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145 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
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146 other window.
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147 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
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148 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
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149 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
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150 in terminal mode.
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151 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
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152 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
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153 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
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154 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
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155 - STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
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156 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
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157 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
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158 - Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
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159 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
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160 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
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161 8 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
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162 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
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163 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
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164 - Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
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165 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
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166 - FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
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167 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
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168 - VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
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169 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
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170 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
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171 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
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172 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
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173 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
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174 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
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175 8 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no
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176 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for
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177 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal
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178 action, telling it what to do.
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179 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
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180 - Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27)
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181 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
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182 New patch 2004 Jun 16
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183 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
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184 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
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185 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
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186 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
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187 instead.
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188 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
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189 line.
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190 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
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191 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
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192 - When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
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193 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
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194 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
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196 - "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
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197 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
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198 - In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
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199 with \u, \U, etc.
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201 Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
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202 2004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
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204 For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
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205 windows. Example:
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206 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
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207 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
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208 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
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209 : return getline(lnum)
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210 :endfun
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211 The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
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212 Virtual window.
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213 A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
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214 nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
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215 is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
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217 Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
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218 Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
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219 Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
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221 Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X.
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223 HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
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224 profiling for Vim script?
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226 Mac: problem with Xcode, Vim doesn't continue until the next click.
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227 Apparently hangs in handle_drop(). A PostEvent() avoids it. (Da Woon Jung)
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229 Awaiting updated patches:
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230 --- awaiting updated patch ---
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231 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
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232 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
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233 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
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234 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
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235 separate the from and to part is optional.
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236 Resp: no time now.
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237 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar
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238 15, but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
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239 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
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240 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
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241 He will update the patch for 6.3.
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242 Autocommands:
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243 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
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244 Update 2004 Sep 6.
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245 How does this work? Missing comments.
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246 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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247 Update 2004 Sep 10
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248 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
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249 How to get the messages into the .po files?
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250 --- did not respond (yet) --
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251 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
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252 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
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253 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
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254 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
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255 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
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256 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
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257 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki
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258 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then.
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259 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from
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260 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11.
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261 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
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262 (28 feb 2002).
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263 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
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264 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
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265 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
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266 for multi-byte characters.
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267 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
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268 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
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269 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
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270 been given values.
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271 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
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272 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
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273 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
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274 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin
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275 Dalecki has a patch for Motif)
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276 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
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277 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
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278 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
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279 8 Add functions:
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280 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
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281 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
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282 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
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283 (2003 May 13)
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284 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command
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285 {cmd} and return the result.
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286 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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287 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
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288 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
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289 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
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290 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
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291 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
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292 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
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293 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002
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294 Jan 11.
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295 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki.
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296 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
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297 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
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298 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
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299 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
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300 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
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301 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
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302 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
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303 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
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304 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
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305 Kotchan has a patch for it)
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306 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in
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307 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way
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308 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each
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309 individual modified key.
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310 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37,
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311 with modifiers.
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312 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
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313 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
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314 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
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315 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
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316 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
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317 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
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318 incomplete patch Mar 18)
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319 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
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320 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
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321 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
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322 runtime files?
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323 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
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324 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
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325 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
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326 Need to escape backslashes.
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327 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
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328 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
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329 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
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330
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331 Vi incompatibility:
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332 9 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan)
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333 8 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail.
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334 8 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines.
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335 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
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336 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
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337 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
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338 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
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339 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
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340 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
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341 8 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
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342 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
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343 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
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344 8 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
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345 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
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346 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
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347 make Vim exit.
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348 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
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349 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
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350 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
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351 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
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352 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
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353 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
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354 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
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355 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
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356 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
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357 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
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358 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
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359 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
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360 names in one buffer???
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361 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
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362 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
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363 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
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364 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
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365 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
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366 command was one command.
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367 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
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368 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
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369 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
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370 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
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371 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
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372 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
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373 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
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374 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
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375 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
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376 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
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377 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
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378 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
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379 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
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380 to the match with the tag? Option?
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381 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
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382 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
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383 (Sayre).
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384 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
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385 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
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386 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
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387 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
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388 match. Nvi can do it too.
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389 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
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390 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
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391 line 1\ line 2\\
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392 line 2\ line 3\\
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393 . line4/
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394 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
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395 the way the shell is started?
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396 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
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397 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
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398
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399
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400 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
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401 8 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
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402 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
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403 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
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404 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
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405 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
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406 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
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407 the minimal window width?
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408 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
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409 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
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410 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
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411 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
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412
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413 GTK+ GUI known bugs:
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414 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
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415 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
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416 creating a label?
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417 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
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418 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
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419 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
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420 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
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421 7 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
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422
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423 KDE GUI known bugs:
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43
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424 - There is no active maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to replace it.
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425 - With the default 'guifont' value bold text differs in size from normal
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426 text, causing the display to be messed up.
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12
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427 - Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
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428 - Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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429
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430 Win32 GUI known bugs:
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431 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
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432 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
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433 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
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434 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
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435 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
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436 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
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437 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
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438 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
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439 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
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440 "lucida_console:h8").
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441 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
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442 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
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443 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
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444 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
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445 type of characters.
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446 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
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447 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
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448 to use an opaque background in most places?
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449 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
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450 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
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451 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
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452 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
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453 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
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454 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
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455 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
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456 2004 May 9)
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457 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
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458 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
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459 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
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460 MS-Windows 98?
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461 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
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462 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
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463 file: Window moves with the cursor!
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464 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
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465 8 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
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466 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
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467 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
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468 appear. (Sami Salonen)
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469 8 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
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470 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
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471 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
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472 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
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473 doesn't work properly.
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474 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
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475 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
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476 appears in the right position. (Webb)
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477 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
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478 button doesn't give popup menu.
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479 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
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480 selection.
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481 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
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482 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
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483 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
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484 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
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485 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
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486 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
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487 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
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488 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
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489 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
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490 be read.
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491 8 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to
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492 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return).
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493 Use a scrollable window.
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494 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
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495 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
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496 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
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497 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
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498 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
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499 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
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500 anyway.
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501 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
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502 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
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503 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
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504 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
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505 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
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506 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
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507 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
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508 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
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509 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
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510 know which keyboard is being used?
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511 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
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512 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
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513 area (Koloseike).
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514 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
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515 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
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516 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
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517 the font name).
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518
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519
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520 Athena and Motif:
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521 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
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522 required and it's missing?
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523 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
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524 wrong.
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525 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
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526 be off by default.
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527 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
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528 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
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529 flag.
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530 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
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531 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
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532 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
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533 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
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534 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
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535 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
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536 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
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537 the tooltips work though...
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538 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
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539 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
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540 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
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541 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
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542 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
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543
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544
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545 Athena GUI:
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546 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
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547 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
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548 through files.
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549 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
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550 read long file names. (Schroeder)
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551 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
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552 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
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553 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
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554 problem during a refresh.
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555 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
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556 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
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557 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
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558 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
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559 colors as it should.
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560 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
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561 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
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562
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563
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564 Motif GUI:
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565 8 Popup menu ordering is wrong.
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566 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
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567 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
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568 8 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font.
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569 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
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570 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
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571 (Phillipps)
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572
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573
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574 GUI:
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575 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
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576 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
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577 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
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578 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
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579 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
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580 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
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581 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
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582 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
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583 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
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584 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
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585 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
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586 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
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587 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
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588 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
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589 of where it is processing the output.
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590 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
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591 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
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592 doesn't work.
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593 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
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594 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
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595 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
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596 browse().
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597 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
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598 use that code? Or use console dialog.
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599 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
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600 error message disappears too quick.
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601 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
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602 to avoid problems.
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603 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
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604 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
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605 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
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606 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
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607 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
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608 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
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609 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
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610 up. Set erase character somehow?
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611 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
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612 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
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613 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
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614 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
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615 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
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616 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
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617 visible.
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618 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
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619 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
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620 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
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621 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
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622 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
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623 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
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624 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
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625 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
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626 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
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627 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
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628 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
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629 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
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630 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
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631 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
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632
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633
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634 MSDOS/DJGPP:
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635 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
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636 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
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637 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
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638 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
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639 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
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640 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
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641 code and reduce static data.
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642 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
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643 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
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644 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
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645 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
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646 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
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647 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
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648 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
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649 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
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650 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
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651 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
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652 Make this work like in Win32 console.
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653 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
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654 key code. Use a translation table?
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655 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
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656 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
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657 8 Use DJGPP 2.03.
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658 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
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659 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
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660 8 setlocale() is bogus.
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661 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
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662 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
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663 Windows 95 system!
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664 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
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665 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
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666 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
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667 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
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668 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
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669 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
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670 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
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671 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
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672 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
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673 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
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674 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
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675 "[New file]".
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676 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
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677 that is supported?
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678 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
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679 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
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680 Briscoe)
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681
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682
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683 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
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684 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
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685 gen_expand_wildcards().
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686 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
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687 Wagner.
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688 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
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689 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
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690 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
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691 8 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
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692 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
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693 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
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694 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
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695 Should work like in the GUI version.
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696 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
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697 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
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698 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
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699 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
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700 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
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701 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
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702 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
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703 8 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
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704 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
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705 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
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706 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
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707 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
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708
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709
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710 Windows 95:
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711 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
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712 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
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713 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
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714 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
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715 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
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716
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717
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718 Win32 console:
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719 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
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720 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
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721 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
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722 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
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723 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
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724 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
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725 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
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726 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
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727 and the file is not saved.
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728 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
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729 long name.
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730 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
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731 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
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732 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
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733 besides the console.
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734 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
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735 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
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736 <C-S-i>?
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737 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
|
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738 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
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739 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
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740 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
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741 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
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742 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
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743 exiting.
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744
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745
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746 Amiga:
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747 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
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748 sequences.
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749 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
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750 backslashes in result.
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751 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
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752 all options, using white space separation.
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753
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754
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755 Macintosh:
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9
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756 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
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757 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
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758 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
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7
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759 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
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760 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
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761 (Jack)
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762 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
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763 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
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764 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
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765 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
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766 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
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767 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
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768 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
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769 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
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770 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
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771 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
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772 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
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773 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
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774 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
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775 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
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776 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
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777 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
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778 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
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779 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
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780 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
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781
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782
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783 "Small" problems:
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784 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
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785 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
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786 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
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16
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787 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
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7
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788 9 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
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789 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
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790 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
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791 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
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792 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
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793 error number, it's not a regular error message.
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794 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
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795 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
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796 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
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797 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
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798 for redirection.
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799 7 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
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800 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
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801 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
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802 7 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored.
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803 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often
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804 when compiled with Python (threading).
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805 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
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806 'termencoding'.
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807 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
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808 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
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809 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
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810 using the horizontal scrollbar.
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811 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
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812 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
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813 invocations belong together.
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814 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
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815 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
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816 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
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817 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
|
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|
818 UnxUtils.zip archive.
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|
819 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
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820 Briscoe says it's not as good.
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821 8 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
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822 9 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
|
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|
823 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
|
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824 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
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825 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
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826 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
|
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827 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
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828 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
|
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829 use "~/" when possible.
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830 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
|
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831 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
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|
832 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
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833 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
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834 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
|
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835 defined.
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836 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
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837 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
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838 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
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839 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
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840 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
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841 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
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842 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
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843 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
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844 7 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
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845 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
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846 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
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847 9 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
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848 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
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849 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
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850 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
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851 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
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852 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
|
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853 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
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854 script can be called.
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855 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
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856 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
|
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857 works.
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858 9 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
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859 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
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860 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
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861 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
|
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|
862 CTRL-C.
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|
863 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
|
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|
864 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
|
|
|
865 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
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|
866 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
|
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|
867 won't work for GTK anyway.
|
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|
868 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
|
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|
869 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
|
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870 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
|
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|
871 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
|
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|
872 configurable?
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873 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
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874 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
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|
875 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
|
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|
876 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
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877 8 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
|
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|
878 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
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|
879 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
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880 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
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881 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
|
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882 always written, even when the original file already exists.
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883 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
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884 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
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885 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
|
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886 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
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887 written.
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888 9 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
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889 error number.
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|
890 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
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|
891 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
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892 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
|
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|
893 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
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894 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
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895 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
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896 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
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897 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
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898 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
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899 one.
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900 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
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901 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
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902 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
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903 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
|
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904 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
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905 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
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906 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
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907 direction, not horizontally?
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908 8 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
|
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909 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
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910 8 ":hardcopy":
|
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|
911 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
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912 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
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913 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
|
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914 dithering to make grey text?
|
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|
915 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
|
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|
916 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
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24
|
917 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
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7
|
918 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
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919 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
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920 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
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921 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
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922 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
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923 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
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924 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
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925 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
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926 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
|
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927 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
|
|
|
928 that Windows NT is being used?
|
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|
929 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
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|
930 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
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931 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
|
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932 in lines that don't extend into the block?
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|
933 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
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|
934 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
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|
935 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
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936 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
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937 'linebreak'.
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|
938 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
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939 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
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940 (Helmut Stiegler)
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941 8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
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942 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
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|
943 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
|
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944 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
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945 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
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|
946 'magic' in history. (Margo)
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|
947 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
|
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948 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
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949 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
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|
950 isn't updated).
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951 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
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952 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
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953 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
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954 cause another redraw, etc.
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955 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
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956 must escape special characters in the pattern.
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957 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
|
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958 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
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959 ":w!!" for that.
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960 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
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961 restore file to readonly afterwards.
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962 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
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963 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
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964 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
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965 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
|
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966 clipboard)
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967 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
|
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968 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
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969 Waggoner)
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970 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
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971 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
|
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972 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
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34
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973 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
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974 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
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975 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
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7
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976 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
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977 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
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978 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
|
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979 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
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980 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
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981 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
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982 (e.g., ":w").
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983 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
|
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984 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
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|
985 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
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986 for ">>".
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987 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
|
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988 script in do_cmdline().
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989 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
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990 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
|
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991 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
|
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992 changes.
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993 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
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994 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
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995 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
|
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996 check for file marks. This can be slow.
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997 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
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998 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
|
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999 needed.
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1000 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
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1001 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
|
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1002 to skip catch_signals()?
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1003 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
|
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1004 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
|
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1005 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
|
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|
1006 text?
|
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1007 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
|
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|
1008 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
|
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1009 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
|
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|
1010 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
|
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1011 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
|
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|
1012 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
|
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1013 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
|
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|
1014 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
|
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|
1015 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
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1016 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
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|
1017 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
|
|
|
1018 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
|
|
|
1019 in the list?
|
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|
1020 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
|
|
|
1021 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
|
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|
1022 instead of on button down.
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|
1023 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
|
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|
1024 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
|
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|
1025 reaching the end of the available buffer.
|
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|
1026 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
|
|
|
1027 character is typed.
|
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|
1028 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
|
|
|
1029 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
|
|
|
1030 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
|
|
|
1031 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
|
|
|
1032 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
|
|
|
1033 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
|
|
|
1034 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
|
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|
1035 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
|
|
|
1036 cygwin bash.
|
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|
1037 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
|
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|
1038 Remember flags for backreferences.
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|
1039 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
|
|
|
1040 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
|
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|
1041 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
|
|
|
1042 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
|
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|
1043 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
|
|
|
1044 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
|
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|
1045 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
|
|
|
1046 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
|
|
|
1047 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
|
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|
1048 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
|
|
|
1049 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
|
|
|
1050 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
|
|
|
1051 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
|
|
|
1052 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
|
|
|
1053 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
|
|
|
1054 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
|
|
|
1055 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
|
|
|
1056 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
|
|
|
1057 7 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still
|
|
|
1058 was one line.
|
|
|
1059
|
|
|
1060
|
|
|
1061 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
|
|
|
1062 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
|
|
|
1063 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
|
|
|
1064 files. (McCollister)
|
|
|
1065 8 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It
|
|
|
1066 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem.
|
|
|
1067
|
|
|
1068
|
|
|
1069 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
|
|
34
|
1070 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
|
|
|
1071 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
|
|
|
1072 "xterm" when exiting with an ESC sequence. Vim 2 obtains the old title
|
|
|
1073 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
|
|
|
1074 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
|
|
|
1075 worked around with a delay.
|
|
7
|
1076 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
|
|
|
1077 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
|
|
|
1078 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
|
|
|
1079 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
|
|
|
1080 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
|
|
|
1081 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
|
|
|
1082 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
|
|
|
1083 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
|
|
|
1084 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
|
|
|
1085 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
|
|
|
1086 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
|
|
|
1087 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
|
|
|
1088 character gets the highlighting.
|
|
|
1089 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
|
|
|
1090 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
|
|
|
1091 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
|
|
|
1092 (Jennings)
|
|
|
1093 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
|
|
|
1094 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
|
|
|
1095 errors. How do we get the rest?
|
|
|
1096 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
|
|
|
1097 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
|
|
|
1098 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
|
|
|
1099 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
|
|
|
1100 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
|
|
|
1101 first?
|
|
|
1102 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
|
|
|
1103 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
|
|
|
1104 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
|
|
|
1105 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
|
|
|
1106 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
|
|
|
1107 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
|
|
|
1108 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
|
|
|
1109 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
|
|
|
1110 (Benzinger).
|
|
|
1111 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
|
|
|
1112 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
|
|
|
1113 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
|
|
|
1114 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
|
|
|
1115 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
|
|
|
1116 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
|
|
|
1117 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
|
|
|
1118 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
|
|
|
1119 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
|
|
|
1120 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
|
|
|
1121 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
|
|
|
1122 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
|
|
|
1123 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
|
|
|
1124 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
|
|
|
1125 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
|
|
|
1126 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
|
|
|
1127 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
|
|
|
1128 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
|
|
|
1129 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
|
|
|
1130 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
|
|
|
1131 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
|
|
|
1132 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
|
|
|
1133 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
|
|
|
1134 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
|
|
|
1135 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
|
|
|
1136 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
|
|
|
1137 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
|
|
|
1138 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
|
|
|
1139 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
|
|
|
1140 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
|
|
|
1141 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
|
|
|
1142 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
|
|
|
1143 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
|
|
|
1144 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
|
|
|
1145 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
|
|
|
1146 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
|
|
|
1147 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
|
|
|
1148 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
|
|
10
|
1149 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
|
|
|
1150 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
|
|
7
|
1151 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
|
|
|
1152 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
|
|
|
1153 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
|
|
|
1154 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
|
|
|
1155 in the vimrc file to be lost.
|
|
|
1156 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
|
|
|
1157 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
|
|
|
1158
|
|
|
1159 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
|
|
|
1160 *extensions-improvements*
|
|
|
1161
|
|
|
1162 Documentation:
|
|
36
|
1163 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
|
|
|
1164 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
|
|
22
|
1165 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
|
|
|
1166 or not.
|
|
7
|
1167 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
|
|
|
1168 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
|
|
|
1169 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
|
|
|
1170 - change to cursor position and curswant
|
|
|
1171 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
|
|
|
1172 - how it works for folded lines
|
|
|
1173 - how it works with multi-byte characters
|
|
|
1174 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
|
|
|
1175 work too.
|
|
|
1176 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
|
|
|
1177 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
|
|
|
1178 text.
|
|
|
1179 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
|
|
|
1180 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
|
|
|
1181 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
|
|
|
1182 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
|
|
|
1183 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
|
|
|
1184 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
|
|
|
1185
|
|
|
1186
|
|
|
1187 Help:
|
|
|
1188 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
|
|
|
1189 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
|
|
|
1190 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
|
|
|
1191 to the other matches.
|
|
|
1192 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
|
|
|
1193 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
|
|
|
1194 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
|
|
|
1195 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
|
|
|
1196 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
|
|
|
1197 default contents.
|
|
|
1198 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
|
|
|
1199 height for the help window (and other windows).
|
|
|
1200 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
|
|
|
1201 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
|
|
|
1202 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
|
|
|
1203
|
|
|
1204
|
|
|
1205 User Friendlier:
|
|
|
1206 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
|
|
|
1207 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
|
|
|
1208 Briscoe)
|
|
|
1209 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
|
|
|
1210 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
|
|
|
1211 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
|
|
|
1212 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
|
|
|
1213 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
|
|
|
1214 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
|
|
|
1215 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
|
|
|
1216 ":mkplugin <file>"?
|
|
|
1217 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
|
|
|
1218 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
|
|
|
1219 'runtimepath'.
|
|
|
1220 " Vim plugin
|
|
|
1221 <main plugin code>
|
|
|
1222 " >>> plugin help start <<<
|
|
|
1223 <plugin docs>
|
|
|
1224 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
|
|
|
1225 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
|
|
|
1226 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
|
|
|
1227 item?).
|
|
|
1228 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
|
|
|
1229 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
|
|
|
1230 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
|
|
|
1231
|
|
|
1232
|
|
|
1233 Diff mode:
|
|
|
1234 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
|
|
|
1235 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
|
|
|
1236 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
|
|
|
1237 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
|
|
|
1238 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
|
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1239 location.
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1240
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1241
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1242 Folding:
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1243 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
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|
1244 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
|
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40
|
1245 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
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|
7
|
1246 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
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|
1247 (Noel Henson)
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1248 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
|
|
|
1249 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
|
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|
1250 user aware of this?
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|
1251 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
|
|
|
1252 commands skip over a closed fold.
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|
|
1253 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
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|
|
1254 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
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|
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1255 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
|
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36
|
1256 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
|
|
|
1257 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
|
|
|
1258 missing line goes unnoticed.
|
|
|
1259 How to implement this?
|
|
7
|
1260 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
|
|
|
1261 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
|
|
|
1262 smoother?
|
|
|
1263 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
|
|
|
1264 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
|
|
|
1265 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
|
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|
1266 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
|
|
36
|
1267 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
|
|
7
|
1268 - "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
|
|
|
1269 implement this?
|
|
|
1270 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
|
|
|
1271 cursor.
|
|
|
1272 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
|
|
|
1273 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
|
|
36
|
1274 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
|
|
7
|
1275 searches.
|
|
|
1276
|
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|
1277
|
|
|
1278 Multi-byte characters:
|
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|
1279 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
|
|
|
1280 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
|
|
|
1281 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
|
|
|
1282 byte).
|
|
|
1283 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
|
|
|
1284 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
|
|
|
1285 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
|
|
|
1286 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
|
|
|
1287 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
|
|
|
1288 item.
|
|
|
1289 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
|
|
|
1290 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
|
|
|
1291 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
|
|
|
1292 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
|
|
36
|
1293 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
|
|
38
|
1294 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
|
|
7
|
1295 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
|
|
|
1296 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
|
|
|
1297 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
|
|
|
1298 so that the user can fix the problem.
|
|
|
1299 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
|
|
|
1300 Schweigert)
|
|
|
1301 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
|
|
|
1302 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
|
|
|
1303 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
|
|
|
1304 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
|
|
|
1305 8 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
|
|
|
1306 7 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
|
|
|
1307 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
|
|
|
1308 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
|
|
|
1309 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
|
|
|
1310 characters.
|
|
|
1311 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
|
|
|
1312 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
|
|
|
1313 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
|
|
|
1314 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
|
|
|
1315 'display' option to specify this.
|
|
|
1316 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
|
|
|
1317 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
|
|
|
1318 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
|
|
|
1319 fontselector somehow.
|
|
|
1320 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
|
|
|
1321 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
|
|
|
1322 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
|
|
|
1323 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
|
|
|
1324 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
|
|
|
1325 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
|
|
|
1326 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
|
|
|
1327 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
|
|
|
1328 if a font exists?
|
|
|
1329 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
|
|
|
1330 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI.
|
|
|
1331 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
|
|
|
1332 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
|
|
|
1333 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
|
|
|
1334 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
|
|
|
1335 - Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
|
|
|
1336 - Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
|
|
|
1337 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
|
|
|
1338 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
|
|
|
1339 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
|
|
|
1340 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
|
|
|
1341 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
|
|
|
1342 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
|
|
|
1343 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
|
|
|
1344 But it's very complicated...
|
|
|
1345
|
|
|
1346
|
|
|
1347 Printing:
|
|
|
1348 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
|
|
|
1349 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
|
|
|
1350 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
|
|
46
|
1351 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
|
|
|
1352 Reilly)
|
|
7
|
1353 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
|
|
|
1354 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
|
|
|
1355 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
|
|
|
1356 - PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
|
|
|
1357 different 'encoding' values somehow.
|
|
|
1358 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
|
|
|
1359 units as for the margins.
|
|
|
1360 - Support right-to-left text?
|
|
|
1361 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
|
|
|
1362 color.
|
|
|
1363
|
|
|
1364
|
|
|
1365 Syntax highlighting:
|
|
|
1366 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
|
|
|
1367 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
|
|
|
1368 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
|
|
|
1369 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
|
|
|
1370 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
|
|
|
1371 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
|
|
|
1372 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
|
|
|
1373 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
|
|
|
1374 ":wq file".
|
|
|
1375 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
|
|
|
1376 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
|
|
|
1377 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
|
|
|
1378 7 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with
|
|
|
1379 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table.
|
|
|
1380 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell)
|
|
|
1381 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
|
|
|
1382 Search highlighting.
|
|
|
1383 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
|
|
|
1384 change this for each release.
|
|
|
1385 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
|
|
|
1386 pattern, but not in the body.
|
|
|
1387 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
|
|
|
1388 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
|
|
|
1389 instead of the containing item.
|
|
|
1390 8 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn
|
|
|
1391 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct.
|
|
|
1392 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell)
|
|
|
1393 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
|
|
|
1394 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
|
|
|
1395 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
|
|
|
1396 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
|
|
|
1397 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
|
|
|
1398 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
|
|
|
1399 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
|
|
|
1400 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
|
|
|
1401 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
|
|
|
1402 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
|
|
|
1403 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
|
|
|
1404 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
|
|
|
1405 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
|
|
|
1406 used.
|
|
|
1407 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
|
|
|
1408 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
|
|
|
1409 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
|
|
|
1410 re-insert the [] if possible.
|
|
|
1411 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
|
|
|
1412 the Cursor).
|
|
|
1413 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
|
|
|
1414 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
|
|
|
1415 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
|
|
|
1416 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
|
|
|
1417 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
|
|
|
1418 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
|
|
|
1419 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
|
|
|
1420 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
|
|
|
1421 a '<'. (Fleiner)
|
|
|
1422 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
|
|
|
1423 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
|
|
|
1424 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
|
|
|
1425 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
|
|
|
1426 detected.
|
|
|
1427 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
|
|
|
1428 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
|
|
|
1429 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
|
|
|
1430 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
|
|
|
1431 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
|
|
|
1432 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
|
|
|
1433 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
|
|
|
1434 ":mkvimrc".
|
|
|
1435 8 Improve c.vim:
|
|
|
1436 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
|
|
|
1437 "c_strict_ansi".
|
|
|
1438 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
|
|
|
1439 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
|
|
|
1440 current line while in Insert mode.
|
|
|
1441 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
|
|
|
1442 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
|
|
|
1443 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
|
|
|
1444 display position.
|
|
|
1445 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
|
|
|
1446 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
|
|
|
1447 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
|
|
|
1448 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
|
|
|
1449 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
|
|
|
1450 highlighting starts.
|
|
|
1451 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
|
|
|
1452 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
|
|
|
1453 E.g. for this html:
|
|
|
1454 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
|
|
|
1455 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
|
|
|
1456 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
|
|
|
1457 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
|
|
|
1458 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
|
|
|
1459 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
|
|
|
1460 words.
|
|
|
1461 7 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
|
|
|
1462 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
|
|
|
1463 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
|
|
|
1464 8 Add more command line completion for :sign.
|
|
|
1465 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
|
|
|
1466 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
|
|
|
1467 completion?
|
|
|
1468 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
|
|
|
1469 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
|
|
|
1470 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
|
|
|
1471 select one of the sets.
|
|
|
1472 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
|
|
|
1473 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
|
|
|
1474 2, etc.
|
|
|
1475 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
|
|
|
1476 highlighting (for "." command).
|
|
|
1477 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
|
|
|
1478 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
|
|
|
1479 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
|
|
|
1480 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
|
|
|
1481 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
|
|
|
1482 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
|
|
|
1483 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
|
|
|
1484 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
|
|
|
1485 when extending an already existing syntax file.
|
|
|
1486 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
|
|
|
1487 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
|
|
|
1488 (for comment blocks).
|
|
|
1489 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
|
|
|
1490 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
|
|
|
1491 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
|
|
|
1492 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
|
|
|
1493 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
|
|
|
1494 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
|
|
|
1495 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
|
|
|
1496 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
|
|
|
1497 (Campbell)
|
|
|
1498 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
|
|
|
1499 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
|
|
|
1500 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
|
|
|
1501 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
|
|
|
1502 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
|
|
|
1503 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
|
|
|
1504 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
|
|
|
1505 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
|
|
|
1506 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
|
|
|
1507 messages. And external commands?
|
|
|
1508 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
|
|
|
1509 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
|
|
|
1510 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
|
|
|
1511 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
|
|
|
1512
|
|
|
1513
|
|
|
1514 Built-in script language:
|
|
|
1515 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
|
|
|
1516 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
|
|
|
1517 8 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
|
|
|
1518 8 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
|
|
|
1519 'shellslash', for example.
|
|
|
1520 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
|
|
|
1521 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
|
|
|
1522 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
|
|
|
1523 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
|
|
|
1524 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
|
|
|
1525 nested packages?
|
|
|
1526 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
|
|
|
1527 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
|
|
|
1528 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
|
|
|
1529 7 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
|
|
24
|
1530 7 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
|
|
|
1531 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
|
|
|
1532 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
|
|
|
1533 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
|
|
|
1534 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
|
|
|
1535 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
|
|
|
1536 the buffer (unlisted).
|
|
7
|
1537 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
|
|
|
1538 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
|
|
|
1539 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
|
|
|
1540 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
|
|
|
1541 autocommand.
|
|
|
1542 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
|
|
|
1543 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
|
|
|
1544 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
|
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1545 file belongs to a sourced script?
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1546 7 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
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1547 Marinichev)
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1548 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
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1549 signs and/or 'number'.
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1550 8 Add functions:
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20
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1551 search() Add optional offset argument.
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1552 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
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1553 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
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1554 3 2002
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1555 Only add this when also implemented for
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1556 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
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1557 be used.
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1558 get_user_name() gets login name.
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18
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1559 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
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1560 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
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1561 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
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1562 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
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1563 File.Open..." argument.
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1564 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
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|
1565 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
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1566 with properties instead.
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1567 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
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1568 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
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|
1569 Return a list instead.
|
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7
|
1570 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
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|
1571 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
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|
1572 mkdir(dir) Create directory
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|
1573 copy(from, to) Copy a file
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|
1574 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
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1575 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
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|
1576 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
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1577 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
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1578 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
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|
1579 Visual block mode.
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1580 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
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|
1581 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
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|
1582 getbufline() get line from any buffer
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1583 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
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|
1584 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
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|
1585 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also:
|
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|
1586 ":sort".
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|
1587 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
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|
1588 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
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|
1589 to allow the library to execute a command or
|
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|
1590 evaluate an expression.
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|
|
1591 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX
|
|
|
1592 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX
|
|
|
1593 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
|
|
|
1594 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
|
|
|
1595 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
|
|
|
1596 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
|
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|
1597 8 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
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|
1598 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
|
|
|
1599 8 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
|
|
|
1600 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
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|
1601 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
|
|
|
1602 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
|
|
|
1603 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
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|
|
1604 8 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
|
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|
1605 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
|
|
|
1606 option or environment variable.
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|
1607 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
|
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|
1608 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
|
|
|
1609 stack available (separated with '\n').
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|
|
1610 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
|
|
|
1611 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
|
|
|
1612 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
|
|
|
1613 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
|
|
|
1614 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
|
|
|
1615 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
|
|
|
1616 charwise({expr}).
|
|
|
1617 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
|
|
|
1618 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
|
|
|
1619 buffer for this?
|
|
|
1620 result = scratch(string, command)
|
|
|
1621 result = apply(string, command)
|
|
|
1622 result = execute(string, command)
|
|
|
1623 "command" would use <> notation.
|
|
|
1624 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
|
|
|
1625 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
|
|
|
1626 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
|
|
|
1627 option for the search path. (Sekera)
|
|
|
1628 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
|
|
|
1629
|
|
|
1630
|
|
|
1631 Robustness:
|
|
|
1632 8 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch():
|
|
|
1633 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+
|
|
|
1634 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack
|
|
|
1635 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for
|
|
|
1636 more systems?
|
|
11
|
1637 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
|
|
|
1638 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
|
|
|
1639 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
|
|
|
1640 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
|
|
|
1641 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
|
|
|
1642 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
|
|
|
1643 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
|
|
7
|
1644
|
|
|
1645
|
|
|
1646 Performance:
|
|
|
1647 8 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
|
|
|
1648 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
|
|
|
1649 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
|
|
|
1650 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
|
|
|
1651 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
|
|
|
1652 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
|
|
|
1653 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
|
|
|
1654 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
|
|
|
1655 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
|
|
|
1656 when starting up in a color terminal.
|
|
|
1657 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
|
|
|
1658 Win16.
|
|
|
1659 9 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
|
|
|
1660 redraw.
|
|
|
1661 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
|
|
|
1662 function be improved?
|
|
|
1663 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
|
|
|
1664 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
|
|
|
1665 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
|
|
|
1666 this be improved?
|
|
|
1667 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
|
|
|
1668 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
|
|
36
|
1669 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
|
|
|
1670 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
|
|
7
|
1671 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
|
|
|
1672 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
|
|
|
1673 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
|
|
|
1674 lot of abbreviations).
|
|
|
1675 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
|
|
|
1676 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
|
|
|
1677 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
|
|
|
1678 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
|
|
|
1679 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
|
|
|
1680 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
|
|
|
1681 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
|
|
|
1682 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
|
|
|
1683 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
|
|
|
1684 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
|
|
|
1685 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
|
|
|
1686 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
|
|
|
1687 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
|
|
|
1688 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
|
|
|
1689 using strcmp() too often?
|
|
|
1690 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
|
|
|
1691 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
|
|
|
1692 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
|
|
|
1693 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
|
|
|
1694 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
|
|
|
1695 the two blocks to the memfile block.
|
|
|
1696 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
|
|
|
1697 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
|
|
|
1698 with an argument that can be messed with.
|
|
|
1699 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
|
|
|
1700 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
|
|
|
1701 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
|
|
|
1702 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
|
|
|
1703 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
|
|
|
1704 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
|
|
|
1705 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
|
|
|
1706 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
|
|
|
1707 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
|
|
|
1708 - Do profiling on:
|
|
|
1709 - :g/pat/normal cmd
|
|
|
1710 - 1000ii<Esc>
|
|
|
1711 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
|
|
|
1712 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
|
|
|
1713 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
|
|
|
1714 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
|
|
|
1715 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
|
|
|
1716 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
|
|
|
1717 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
|
|
|
1718 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
|
|
|
1719 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
|
|
|
1720 changed).
|
|
|
1721 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
|
|
|
1722 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
|
|
|
1723 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
|
|
|
1724 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
|
|
|
1725 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
|
|
|
1726 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
|
|
|
1727 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
|
|
|
1728 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
|
|
|
1729 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
|
|
|
1730 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
|
|
|
1731 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
|
|
|
1732 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
|
|
|
1733 cursor is right of the screen.
|
|
|
1734 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
|
|
|
1735 CTRL-C (it's slow).
|
|
|
1736
|
|
|
1737
|
|
|
1738 Code size:
|
|
|
1739 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
|
|
|
1740 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
|
|
|
1741 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
|
|
|
1742 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
|
|
|
1743 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
|
|
|
1744 it.
|
|
|
1745 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
|
|
|
1746 left out.
|
|
|
1747 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
|
|
|
1748 can be removed.
|
|
|
1749 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
|
|
|
1750
|
|
|
1751
|
|
|
1752 Messages:
|
|
|
1753 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
|
|
|
1754 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
|
|
|
1755 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
|
|
|
1756 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
|
|
|
1757 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
|
|
|
1758 script.
|
|
|
1759 8 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
|
|
|
1760 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
|
|
|
1761 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
|
|
|
1762 Perhaps after ten seconds?
|
|
|
1763 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
|
|
|
1764 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
|
|
|
1765 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
|
|
|
1766 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
|
|
|
1767 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
|
|
|
1768 redrawing.
|
|
|
1769 7 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
|
|
|
1770 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
|
|
|
1771 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
|
|
|
1772 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
|
|
|
1773 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
|
|
|
1774 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
|
|
|
1775 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
|
|
|
1776 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
|
|
|
1777 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
|
|
|
1778 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
|
|
|
1779 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
|
|
|
1780 sleep before second message?
|
|
|
1781 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
|
|
|
1782 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
|
|
|
1783 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
|
|
|
1784 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
|
|
|
1785 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
|
|
|
1786 error messages, printing text, etc.
|
|
|
1787 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
|
|
|
1788 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
|
|
|
1789 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
|
|
|
1790
|
|
|
1791
|
|
|
1792 Screen updating:
|
|
|
1793 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
|
|
|
1794 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
|
|
|
1795 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
|
|
|
1796 - screen_line():
|
|
|
1797 - insert/delete character stuff.
|
|
|
1798 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
|
|
|
1799 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
|
|
|
1800 dragging the status line with the mouse).
|
|
|
1801 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
|
|
|
1802 waiting for a character.
|
|
|
1803 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
|
|
|
1804 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
|
|
|
1805 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
|
|
|
1806 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
|
|
|
1807
|
|
|
1808
|
|
|
1809 Scrolling:
|
|
|
1810 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
|
|
|
1811 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
|
|
|
1812 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
|
|
|
1813 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
|
|
|
1814 windows.
|
|
|
1815 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
|
|
|
1816 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
|
|
|
1817 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
|
|
|
1818 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
|
|
|
1819 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
|
|
|
1820 (Goldfarb)
|
|
|
1821 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
|
|
|
1822 bound windows.
|
|
|
1823 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
|
|
|
1824 be bound by regexp searches
|
|
9
|
1825 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
|
|
7
|
1826 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
|
|
|
1827 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
|
|
|
1828 of lines but not with a single line).
|
|
|
1829
|
|
|
1830
|
|
|
1831 Autoconf:
|
|
|
1832 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
|
|
|
1833 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
|
|
|
1834 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
|
|
|
1835 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
|
|
|
1836 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
|
|
|
1837 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
|
|
|
1838 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
|
|
|
1839 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
|
|
|
1840
|
|
|
1841
|
|
|
1842 Perl interface:
|
|
|
1843 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
|
|
|
1844 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
|
|
|
1845 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
|
|
|
1846 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
|
|
|
1847
|
|
|
1848
|
|
|
1849 Shared libraries:
|
|
|
1850 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
|
|
|
1851 :libload internal-name libname
|
|
|
1852 :libunload internal-name
|
|
|
1853 :liblist
|
|
|
1854 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
|
|
|
1855 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
|
|
|
1856 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
|
|
|
1857 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
|
|
|
1858
|
|
|
1859
|
|
|
1860 Tags:
|
|
|
1861 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
|
|
|
1862 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
|
|
|
1863 8 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
|
|
|
1864 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
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1865 Hendriks)
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1866 7 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
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1867 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
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1868 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
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1869 to type the tag number directly.
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1870 7 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
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1871 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
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1872 window for each tag.
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1873 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
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1874 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
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1875 bottom" search message.
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1876 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
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1877 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
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1878 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
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1879 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
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1880 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
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1881 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
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1882 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
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1883 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
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1884 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
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1885 :tagargs clear
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1886 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
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1887 matching).
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1888 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
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1889 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
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1890 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
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1891 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
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1892 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
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1893 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
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1894 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
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1895 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
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1896 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
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1897
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1898
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1899 Security:
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1900 - nothing at the moment
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1901
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1902
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1903 Win32 GUI:
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1904 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
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1905 the message and input?
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1906 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
|
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1907 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
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1908 dynamically?
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1909 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
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1910 (Mike McCollister)
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1911 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
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1912 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
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1913 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
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1914 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
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1915 common part of the path.
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1916 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
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1917 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
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1918 gettext and menus work.
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1919 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
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1920 return in every console.
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1921 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
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1922 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
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1923 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
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1924 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
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1925 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
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1926 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
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1927 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
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1928 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
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1929 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
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1930 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
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1931 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
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1932 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
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1933 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
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1934 prompts.
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1935 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
|
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1936 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
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1937 the file added into an already running Vim.
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1938 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
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1939 functions to find the window title.
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1940
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1941
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1942 GUI:
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1943 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
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1944 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
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1945 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
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1946 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
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1947 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
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1948 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
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1949 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
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1950 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
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1951 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
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1952 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
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1953 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
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1954 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
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1955 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
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1956 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
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1957 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
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1958 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
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1959 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
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1960 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
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1961 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
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1962 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
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1963 running them in separate processes.
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1964 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
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1965 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
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1966 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
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1967 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
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1968 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
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1969 double-width. (Maeda)
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1970 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
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1971 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
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1972 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a
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1973 bit more work.
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1974 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
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1975 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
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1976 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
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1977 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
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1978 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
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1979 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
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1980 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
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1981 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
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1982 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
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1983 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
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1984 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
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1985 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
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1986 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
|
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1987 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
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1988 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
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1989 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
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1990 7 Should support multi-column menus.
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1991 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
|
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1992 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
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1993 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
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1994 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
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1995 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
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|
1996 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
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1997 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
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1998 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
|
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|
1999 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
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2000 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
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2001 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
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2002 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
|
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|
2003 name can be chosen free.
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2004 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
|
|
|
2005 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
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2006 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
|
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|
2007 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
|
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|
2008 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
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|
2009 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
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|
2010 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
|
|
|
2011 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
|
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|
2012 things.
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2013 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
|
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|
2014 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
|
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|
2015 - Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we
|
|
36
|
2016 get it back if we want it? It's already solved for GTK.
|
|
7
|
2017 - Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be
|
|
|
2018 changeable with an option?
|
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|
2019 - Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?).
|
|
|
2020 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
|
|
|
2021 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
|
|
|
2022 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
|
|
|
2023 where it was started from?
|
|
|
2024 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
|
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|
2025
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2026
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|
|
2027 VMS:
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|
2028 - Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
|
|
|
2029 - Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
|
|
|
2030 works just on 7.3).
|
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|
2031
|
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|
2032
|
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|
2033 Autocommands:
|
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40
|
2034 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
|
|
|
2035 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
|
|
|
2036 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
|
|
|
2037 changing the buffer name.
|
|
7
|
2038 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
|
|
|
2039 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
|
|
|
2040 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
|
|
|
2041 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
|
|
|
2042 difficult).
|
|
|
2043 8 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
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|
2044 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
|
|
|
2045 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
|
|
|
2046 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
|
|
|
2047 8 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
|
|
|
2048 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
|
|
|
2049 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
|
|
|
2050 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
|
|
|
2051 And anything else?
|
|
|
2052 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
|
|
|
2053 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
|
|
|
2054 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
|
|
|
2055 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
|
|
|
2056 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
|
|
|
2057 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
|
|
|
2058 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
|
|
|
2059 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
|
|
|
2060 7 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
|
|
|
2061 file.
|
|
|
2062 7 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
|
|
|
2063 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
|
|
|
2064 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
|
|
|
2065 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
|
|
|
2066 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
|
|
|
2067 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
|
|
|
2068 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
|
|
|
2069 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
|
|
|
2070 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
|
|
|
2071 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
|
|
|
2072 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
|
|
|
2073 file.
|
|
|
2074 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
|
|
|
2075 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
|
|
|
2076 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
|
|
|
2077 - Add events to autocommands:
|
|
|
2078 Error - When an error happens
|
|
|
2079 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
|
|
|
2080 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
|
|
|
2081 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
|
|
|
2082 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
|
|
|
2083 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
|
|
11
|
2084 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
|
|
17
|
2085 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
|
|
|
2086 when exiting isn't a good idea.
|
|
26
|
2087 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
|
|
7
|
2088 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
|
|
|
2089 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
|
|
|
2090 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
|
|
|
2091 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
|
|
|
2092 window title)
|
|
|
2093 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
|
|
|
2094 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
|
|
|
2095 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
|
|
|
2096 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
|
|
|
2097 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
|
|
|
2098 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
|
|
|
2099 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
|
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|
2100 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
|
|
|
2101 the char.
|
|
|
2102 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
|
|
|
2103 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
|
|
|
2104 file from CVS).
|
|
|
2105 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
|
|
|
2106 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
|
|
|
2107 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
|
|
|
2108 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
|
|
|
2109 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
|
|
|
2110 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
|
|
|
2111 WinResized - When a window has been resized
|
|
|
2112 - Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
|
|
|
2113 file now and then ('autosave').
|
|
|
2114 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
|
|
|
2115 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
|
|
|
2116 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
|
|
|
2117 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
|
|
|
2118 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
|
|
|
2119 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
|
|
|
2120 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
|
|
|
2121
|
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|
2122
|
|
|
2123 Insert mode completion/expansion:
|
|
|
2124 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
|
|
|
2125 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
|
|
|
2126 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
|
|
|
2127 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
|
|
|
2128 (Webb)
|
|
|
2129 8 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
|
|
|
2130 comments.
|
|
|
2131 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
|
|
|
2132 - ignore/match case
|
|
|
2133 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
|
|
|
2134 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
|
|
|
2135 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
|
|
|
2136 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
|
|
|
2137 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
|
|
|
2138 Should work for C++ and Java.
|
|
|
2139 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
|
|
|
2140 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
|
|
|
2141 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
|
|
|
2142 instead of words.
|
|
|
2143 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
|
|
|
2144 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
|
|
|
2145 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
|
|
|
2146 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
|
|
|
2147 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
|
|
|
2148 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
|
|
|
2149 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
|
|
|
2150 wildcards in the file name)?
|
|
|
2151 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
|
|
|
2152 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
|
|
|
2153 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
|
|
|
2154 be in another file).
|
|
|
2155 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
|
|
|
2156 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
|
|
|
2157 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
|
|
|
2158 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
|
|
|
2159 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
|
|
|
2160 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
|
|
|
2161 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
|
|
|
2162 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
|
|
|
2163 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
|
|
|
2164 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
|
|
|
2165 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
|
|
|
2166 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
|
|
|
2167
|
|
|
2168
|
|
|
2169 Command line editing:
|
|
|
2170 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
|
|
|
2171 line.
|
|
|
2172 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
|
|
|
2173 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
|
|
|
2174 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
|
|
|
2175 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
|
|
|
2176 lines wraps to start of line).
|
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2177 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
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2178 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
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2179 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
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2180 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
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2181 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
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2182 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
|
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2183 cmdwin does now already.
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2184 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
|
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2185 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
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2186 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
|
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2187 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
|
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2188 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
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2189 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
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2190 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
|
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2191 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
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2192 Problems:
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2193 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
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2194 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
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2195 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
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2196 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
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2197 - Normal: no ":" commands?
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2198 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
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2199 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
|
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|
2200 character in first column?
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2201 - Implementation ideas:
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2202 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
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2203 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
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2204 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
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2205 - sync undo after entering a command line?
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2206 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
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2207 Mode.
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2208
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2209
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2210 Command line completion:
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2211 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
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2212 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
|
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2213 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
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2214 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
|
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2215 them with the optional part inside [].
|
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2216 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
|
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2217 edited. (Sven Guckes)
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2218 7 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=.
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2219 (Servatius Brandt)
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|
2220 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
|
|
|
2221 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
|
|
|
2222 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
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|
2223 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
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2224 8 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command.
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|
2225 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
|
|
|
2226 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
|
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|
2227 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
|
|
|
2228 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
|
|
|
2229 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
|
|
|
2230 identifiers (Webb).
|
|
|
2231 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
|
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|
2232 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
|
|
|
2233 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
|
|
|
2234 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
|
|
|
2235 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
|
|
|
2236 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
|
|
|
2237 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
|
|
|
2238 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
|
|
|
2239 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
|
|
|
2240 - Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL".
|
|
|
2241
|
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2242
|
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2243 Command line history:
|
|
|
2244 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
|
|
|
2245 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
|
|
|
2246 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
|
|
|
2247 completely resulted from one mapping.
|
|
|
2248 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
|
|
|
2249 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
|
|
|
2250
|
|
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2251
|
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|
2252 Insert mode:
|
|
10
|
2253 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
|
|
|
2254 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
|
|
|
2255 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
|
|
7
|
2256 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
|
|
|
2257 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
|
|
|
2258 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
|
|
|
2259 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
|
|
|
2260 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
|
|
|
2261 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
|
|
|
2262 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
|
|
|
2263 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
|
|
|
2264 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
|
|
|
2265 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
|
|
|
2266 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
|
|
|
2267 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
|
|
|
2268 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
|
|
|
2269 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
|
|
|
2270 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
|
|
|
2271 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
|
|
|
2272 Normal mode.
|
|
|
2273 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
|
|
|
2274 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
|
|
|
2275 are used.
|
|
|
2276 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
|
|
|
2277 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
|
|
|
2278 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
|
|
|
2279
|
|
|
2280
|
|
|
2281 'cindent', 'smartindent':
|
|
|
2282 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
|
|
|
2283 Foo::Foo (int one,
|
|
|
2284 int two)
|
|
|
2285 : something(4)
|
|
|
2286 {}
|
|
|
2287 8 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
|
|
|
2288 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
|
|
|
2289 : something(4),
|
|
|
2290 somethingelse(3)
|
|
|
2291 {}
|
|
|
2292 9 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
|
|
|
2293 int main ()
|
|
|
2294 {
|
|
|
2295 if (lala)
|
|
|
2296 do
|
|
|
2297 ++(*lolo);
|
|
|
2298 while (lili
|
|
|
2299 && lele);
|
|
|
2300 lulu;
|
|
|
2301 }
|
|
|
2302 9 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
|
|
|
2303 void function(int param) {
|
|
|
2304 if (false)
|
|
|
2305 return;
|
|
|
2306 }
|
|
|
2307 9 brace not indented correctly:
|
|
|
2308 case 'c': if (cond)
|
|
|
2309 {
|
|
|
2310 Should align with "if" in case statement.
|
|
|
2311 7 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
|
|
|
2312 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
|
|
|
2313 asdf
|
|
|
2314 )
|
|
|
2315 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
|
|
|
2316 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
|
|
|
2317 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
|
|
|
2318 func(
|
|
|
2319 new String[] {
|
|
|
2320 "asdf",
|
|
|
2321 "asdf"
|
|
|
2322 }
|
|
|
2323 );
|
|
|
2324 7 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
|
|
|
2325 func(
|
|
|
2326 int x) // indent like "(4"
|
|
|
2327 {
|
|
|
2328 if (a
|
|
|
2329 && b) // indent like "(0"
|
|
|
2330 8 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
|
|
|
2331 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
|
|
|
2332 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
|
|
|
2333 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
|
|
|
2334 */
|
|
|
2335 hello
|
|
|
2336 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
|
|
|
2337 if (a)
|
|
|
2338 {
|
|
|
2339 if (b)
|
|
|
2340 {
|
|
|
2341 // {
|
|
|
2342 }
|
|
|
2343 } <-- this is indented incorrect
|
|
|
2344 9 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
|
|
|
2345 (void) MyFancyFunction(
|
|
|
2346 argument);
|
|
|
2347 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
|
|
|
2348 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
|
|
|
2349 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
|
|
|
2350 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
|
|
|
2351 line).
|
|
|
2352 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
|
|
|
2353 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
|
|
|
2354 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
|
|
|
2355 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
|
|
|
2356 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
|
|
|
2357 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
|
|
|
2358 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
|
|
|
2359 code), unless the line starts with "*".
|
|
|
2360 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
|
|
|
2361 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
|
|
|
2362 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
|
|
|
2363 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
|
|
|
2364 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
|
|
|
2365 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
|
|
|
2366 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
|
|
|
2367 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
|
|
|
2368 lines start with "\item".
|
|
|
2369 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
|
|
|
2370 /* here is a comment that
|
|
|
2371 is just autoindented, and
|
|
|
2372 nothing else */
|
|
|
2373 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
|
|
|
2374 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
|
|
|
2375 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
|
|
|
2376 indents.
|
|
|
2377 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
|
|
|
2378 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
|
|
|
2379 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
|
|
|
2380
|
|
|
2381
|
|
|
2382 Java:
|
|
|
2383 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
|
|
|
2384 Odendahl?
|
|
|
2385 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
|
|
|
2386 "[i" commands and friends.
|
|
|
2387 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
|
|
|
2388 (Jason)
|
|
|
2389 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
|
|
|
2390 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
|
|
|
2391
|
|
|
2392
|
|
|
2393 'comments':
|
|
|
2394 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
|
|
|
2395 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
|
|
|
2396 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
|
|
|
2397 when it's "#" or "//".
|
|
|
2398 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
|
|
|
2399 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
|
|
|
2400 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
|
|
|
2401 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
|
|
|
2402 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
|
|
|
2403 regexp is used.
|
|
|
2404 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
|
|
|
2405 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
|
|
|
2406
|
|
|
2407
|
|
|
2408 Virtual edit:
|
|
|
2409 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
|
|
|
2410 7 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
|
|
|
2411 end of the line?
|
|
|
2412 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
|
|
|
2413
|
|
|
2414
|
|
|
2415 Text objects:
|
|
|
2416 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
|
|
|
2417 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
|
|
|
2418 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
|
|
|
2419 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
|
|
|
2420 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
|
|
|
2421 the end of the line or before a ".".
|
|
|
2422 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
|
|
|
2423 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
|
|
|
2424 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
|
|
|
2425 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
|
|
|
2426 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
|
|
|
2427 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
|
|
|
2428 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
|
|
|
2429 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
|
|
|
2430 cursor is on.
|
|
|
2431
|
|
|
2432
|
|
|
2433 Select mode:
|
|
|
2434 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
|
|
|
2435 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
|
|
|
2436 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
|
|
|
2437 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
|
|
|
2438 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
|
|
|
2439 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
|
|
|
2440 contains 'C' or 'A'.
|
|
|
2441 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
|
|
|
2442 normal_cmd().
|
|
|
2443 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
|
|
|
2444 - Typing text replaces the selection.
|
|
|
2445
|
|
|
2446
|
|
|
2447 Visual mode:
|
|
|
2448 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
|
|
|
2449 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
|
|
|
2450 is in the top line.
|
|
|
2451 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
|
|
|
2452 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
|
|
|
2453 where needed.
|
|
|
2454 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
|
|
|
2455 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
|
|
|
2456 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
|
|
|
2457 of each selected line.
|
|
|
2458 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
|
|
|
2459 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
|
|
|
2460 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
|
|
|
2461 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
|
|
|
2462 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
|
|
|
2463 Ben Godfrey)
|
|
|
2464 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
|
|
|
2465 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
|
|
|
2466 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
|
|
|
2467 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
|
|
|
2468 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
|
|
|
2469 Young is working on this)
|
|
|
2470 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
|
|
8
|
2471 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
|
|
7
|
2472 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
|
|
|
2473 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
|
|
|
2474 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
|
|
|
2475 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
|
|
|
2476 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
|
|
|
2477 option!
|
|
|
2478 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
|
|
|
2479 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
|
|
|
2480 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
|
|
|
2481 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
|
|
|
2482 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
|
|
|
2483 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
|
|
|
2484 without changing the column.
|
|
|
2485 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
|
|
|
2486 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
|
|
|
2487 current buffer.
|
|
|
2488 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
|
|
|
2489 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
|
|
|
2490 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
|
|
|
2491 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
|
|
|
2492 6 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
|
|
|
2493 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
|
|
|
2494 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
|
|
|
2495 or other special character.
|
|
|
2496 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
|
|
|
2497
|
|
|
2498
|
|
|
2499 More advanced repeating commands:
|
|
|
2500 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
|
|
|
2501 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
|
|
|
2502 the command line so that it can be repeated?
|
|
|
2503 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
|
|
|
2504 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
|
|
|
2505 "y." will repeat last yank.
|
|
|
2506 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
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|
|
2507 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
|
|
|
2508 and/or pick an older command.
|
|
|
2509 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
|
|
|
2510
|
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|
2511
|
|
|
2512 Mappings and Abbreviations:
|
|
|
2513 8 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
|
|
|
2514 ":verbose set".
|
|
|
2515 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
|
|
|
2516 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
|
|
|
2517 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
|
|
|
2518 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
|
|
|
2519 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
|
|
|
2520 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
|
|
|
2521 8 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
|
|
|
2522 m_script_ID can be used.
|
|
|
2523 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
|
|
|
2524 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
|
|
|
2525 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
|
|
|
2526 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
|
|
|
2527 entering search strings.
|
|
|
2528 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
|
|
|
2529 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
|
|
|
2530 not the <Space>.
|
|
|
2531 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
|
|
|
2532 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
|
|
|
2533 (?) work.
|
|
|
2534 7 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
|
|
|
2535 set".
|
|
|
2536 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
|
|
|
2537 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
|
|
|
2538 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
|
|
|
2539 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
|
|
|
2540 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
|
|
|
2541 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
|
|
|
2542 option.
|
|
|
2543 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
|
|
|
2544 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
|
|
|
2545 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
|
|
|
2546 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
|
|
|
2547 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
|
|
|
2548 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
|
|
|
2549 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
|
|
|
2550 abbreviations are to be used.
|
|
|
2551 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
|
|
|
2552 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
|
|
|
2553 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
|
|
|
2554 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
|
|
|
2555 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
|
|
|
2556 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
|
|
|
2557 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
|
|
|
2558 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
|
|
|
2559 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
|
|
|
2560 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
|
|
|
2561 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
|
|
|
2562 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
|
|
|
2563 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
|
|
|
2564 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
|
|
|
2565 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
|
|
|
2566 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
|
|
|
2567 hit another character.
|
|
|
2568 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
|
|
|
2569 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
|
|
|
2570 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
|
|
|
2571 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
|
|
|
2572 Or implicit:
|
|
|
2573 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
|
|
|
2574 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
|
|
|
2575 non-replace Insert mode?
|
|
|
2576 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
|
|
|
2577 6 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
|
|
|
2578 mappings with arguments.
|
|
|
2579 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
|
|
|
2580 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
|
|
|
2581 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
|
|
|
2582 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
|
|
|
2583 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
|
|
|
2584 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
|
|
|
2585 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
|
|
|
2586 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
|
|
|
2587 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
|
|
|
2588 ":freekeys".
|
|
|
2589 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
|
|
|
2590
|
|
|
2591
|
|
|
2592 Incsearch:
|
|
|
2593 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
|
|
|
2594 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
|
|
|
2595 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
|
|
|
2596 up every time.
|
|
|
2597 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
|
|
|
2598 folds when going to another line.
|
|
|
2599 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
|
|
|
2600 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
|
|
|
2601 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
|
|
|
2602 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
|
|
|
2603 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
|
|
|
2604 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
|
|
|
2605
|
|
|
2606
|
|
|
2607 Searching:
|
|
40
|
2608 7 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
|
|
|
2609 "g?" is already used for rot13.
|
|
7
|
2610 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands
|
|
|
2611 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom.
|
|
39
|
2612 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
|
|
7
|
2613 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
|
|
|
2614 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
|
|
|
2615 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
|
|
|
2616 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
|
|
|
2617 search(). (Brett)
|
|
39
|
2618 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
|
|
|
2619 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
|
|
7
|
2620 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
|
|
|
2621 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
|
|
|
2622 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
|
|
|
2623 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
|
|
|
2624 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
|
|
|
2625 line.
|
|
|
2626 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
|
|
|
2627 example.
|
|
|
2628 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
|
|
|
2629 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
|
|
|
2630 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
|
|
|
2631 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
|
|
|
2632 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
|
|
|
2633 Alternative: use matchit.vim
|
|
|
2634 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
|
|
|
2635 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
|
|
|
2636 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
|
|
|
2637 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
|
|
|
2638 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
|
|
|
2639 "\d".
|
|
24
|
2640 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
|
|
|
2641 \%<C-M>.
|
|
7
|
2642 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
|
|
|
2643 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
|
|
|
2644 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
|
|
|
2645 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
|
|
|
2646 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
|
|
|
2647 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
|
|
|
2648 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
|
|
|
2649 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
|
|
|
2650 search pattern.
|
|
|
2651 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
|
|
|
2652 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
|
|
|
2653 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
|
|
|
2654 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
|
|
|
2655 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
|
|
|
2656 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
|
|
|
2657 7 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
|
|
|
2658 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
|
|
|
2659 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
|
|
|
2660 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
|
|
|
2661 i ignore case
|
|
|
2662 I use case
|
|
|
2663 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
|
|
|
2664 v use Vi regexp syntax
|
|
|
2665 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
|
|
|
2666 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
|
|
|
2667 Perl uses these too:
|
|
|
2668 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
|
|
|
2669 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
|
|
|
2670 o compile only once (Perl only)
|
|
|
2671 s single line expression (we don't need it)
|
|
|
2672 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
|
|
|
2673 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
|
|
|
2674 following command.
|
|
|
2675 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
|
|
|
2676 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
|
|
|
2677 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
|
|
|
2678 for search string)?
|
|
|
2679 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
|
|
|
2680 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
|
|
|
2681 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
|
|
|
2682 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
|
|
|
2683 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
|
|
|
2684 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
|
|
|
2685 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
|
|
|
2686 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
|
|
|
2687 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
|
|
|
2688 a for the next file in the argument list
|
|
|
2689 f for file in the buffer list
|
|
|
2690 w for file edited in a window.
|
|
|
2691 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
|
|
|
2692 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
|
|
|
2693 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
|
|
|
2694 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
|
|
|
2695 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
|
|
|
2696 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
|
|
|
2697 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
|
|
|
2698 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
|
|
|
2699 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
|
|
|
2700 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
|
|
|
2701 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
|
|
|
2702 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
|
|
|
2703 effects.
|
|
|
2704 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
|
|
|
2705 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
|
|
|
2706 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
|
|
|
2707 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron)
|
|
|
2708 Also ":dselect".
|
|
|
2709
|
|
|
2710
|
|
|
2711 Undo:
|
|
26
|
2712 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
|
|
|
2713 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
|
|
7
|
2714 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
|
|
|
2715 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
|
|
|
2716 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
|
|
|
2717 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
|
|
|
2718 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
|
|
|
2719 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
|
|
|
2720 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
|
|
|
2721 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
|
|
|
2722 only remember the lines that really changed.
|
|
|
2723 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
|
|
|
2724 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
|
|
|
2725 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
|
|
|
2726 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
|
|
|
2727 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
|
|
|
2728 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
|
|
|
2729 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
|
|
|
2730 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
|
|
|
2731 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
|
|
|
2732 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
|
|
|
2733 [-99].
|
|
|
2734 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
|
|
|
2735 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
|
|
|
2736 - Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
|
|
|
2737 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
|
|
|
2738 viminfo?
|
|
|
2739 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
|
|
|
2740 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
|
|
|
2741
|
|
|
2742
|
|
|
2743 Buffer list:
|
|
|
2744 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
|
|
|
2745 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
|
|
|
2746 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
|
|
|
2747 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
|
|
|
2748 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
|
|
|
2749 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
|
|
|
2750 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
|
|
|
2751 inode too.
|
|
|
2752 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
|
|
|
2753 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest
|
|
|
2754 number in use plus one?)
|
|
|
2755 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
|
|
|
2756 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
|
|
|
2757 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
|
|
|
2758 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
|
|
|
2759 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
|
|
|
2760 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
|
|
|
2761 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
|
|
|
2762 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
|
|
|
2763 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
|
|
|
2764 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
|
|
|
2765 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
|
|
|
2766 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
|
|
|
2767 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
|
|
|
2768 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
|
|
|
2769 internal use and for when executing an external program?
|
|
|
2770
|
|
|
2771
|
|
|
2772 Swap (.swp) files:
|
|
|
2773 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
|
|
|
2774 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
|
|
|
2775 there are short file name problems.
|
|
|
2776 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
|
|
|
2777 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
|
|
|
2778 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
|
|
|
2779 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
|
|
|
2780 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
|
|
|
2781 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
|
|
|
2782 file the same as the actual file?
|
|
|
2783 Use the code for resolve()?
|
|
|
2784 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
|
|
|
2785 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
|
|
|
2786 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
|
|
|
2787 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
|
|
|
2788 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
|
|
|
2789 enough room.
|
|
|
2790 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
|
|
|
2791 or /var/preserve.
|
|
|
2792 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
|
|
|
2793 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
|
|
|
2794 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
|
|
|
2795 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
|
|
|
2796 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
|
|
|
2797 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
|
|
|
2798 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
|
|
|
2799 cached list of which line is where.
|
|
|
2800
|
|
|
2801
|
|
|
2802 Viminfo:
|
|
|
2803 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
|
|
|
2804 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
|
|
|
2805 else's viminfo file.
|
|
|
2806 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
|
|
|
2807 name. (Schild)
|
|
|
2808 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
|
|
|
2809 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
|
|
|
2810 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
|
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|
2811 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
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|
2812 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
|
|
|
2813 this?
|
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|
2814 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
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|
2815 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
|
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|
2816 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
|
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|
2817 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
|
|
|
2818 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
|
|
|
2819 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
|
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|
2820 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
|
|
|
2821 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
|
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|
2822
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2823
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2824 Modelines:
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2825 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
|
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|
2826 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
|
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|
2827 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
|
|
|
2828 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
|
|
|
2829 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
|
|
|
2830 modeline setting.
|
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|
2831 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
|
|
|
2832 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
|
|
|
2833 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
|
|
|
2834 .cpp files.
|
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|
2835 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
|
|
|
2836 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
|
|
|
2837 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
|
|
|
2838 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
|
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|
2839
|
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2840
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|
2841 Options:
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2842 8 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
|
|
|
2843 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
|
|
|
2844 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
|
|
|
2845 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
|
|
|
2846 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
|
|
|
2847 side effect.
|
|
|
2848 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
|
|
|
2849 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
|
|
|
2850 default value.
|
|
|
2851 8 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the
|
|
|
2852 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word
|
|
|
2853 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice:
|
|
|
2854 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated)
|
|
|
2855 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file)
|
|
|
2856 "nodir" (don't cd at all)
|
|
|
2857 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
|
|
|
2858 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
|
|
|
2859 also be supported.
|
|
|
2860 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
|
|
|
2861 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
|
|
|
2862 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
|
|
|
2863 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
|
|
|
2864 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
|
|
|
2865 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
|
|
|
2866 7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
|
|
|
2867 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
|
|
|
2868
|
|
|
2869
|
|
|
2870 External commands:
|
|
|
2871 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
|
|
|
2872 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
|
|
|
2873 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
|
|
|
2874 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
|
|
|
2875 -f).
|
|
|
2876 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
|
|
|
2877 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
|
|
|
2878 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
|
|
|
2879 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
|
|
|
2880
|
|
|
2881
|
|
|
2882 Multiple Windows:
|
|
|
2883 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
|
|
|
2884 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
|
|
|
2885 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
|
|
|
2886 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
|
|
|
2887 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
|
|
|
2888 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
|
|
|
2889 7 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
|
|
|
2890 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
|
|
|
2891 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
|
|
|
2892 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
|
|
|
2893 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
|
|
|
2894 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
|
|
|
2895 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
|
|
|
2896 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
|
|
|
2897 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
|
|
|
2898 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
|
|
|
2899 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
|
|
|
2900 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
|
|
|
2901 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
|
|
|
2902
|
|
|
2903
|
|
|
2904 Marks:
|
|
|
2905 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
|
|
|
2906 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
|
|
|
2907 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
|
|
|
2908 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
|
|
|
2909 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
|
|
|
2910 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
|
|
|
2911 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
|
|
|
2912 the mark was set.
|
|
|
2913 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
|
|
|
2914 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
|
|
|
2915 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
|
|
|
2916 ":browse marks"?
|
|
|
2917 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
|
|
|
2918 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
|
|
|
2919 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
|
|
|
2920 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
|
|
|
2921 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
|
|
|
2922 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
|
|
|
2923 command).
|
|
|
2924 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
|
|
|
2925 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
|
|
|
2926 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
|
|
|
2927 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
|
|
|
2928 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
|
|
|
2929 mappings.
|
|
|
2930 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
|
|
|
2931 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
|
|
|
2932 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
|
|
|
2933
|
|
|
2934
|
|
|
2935 Digraphs:
|
|
|
2936 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
|
|
|
2937 Also the keymap?
|
|
|
2938 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
|
|
|
2939 below/above).
|
|
|
2940 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
|
|
|
2941 characters?
|
|
26
|
2942 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
|
|
7
|
2943 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
|
|
|
2944 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
|
|
|
2945
|
|
|
2946
|
|
|
2947 Writing files:
|
|
|
2948 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
|
|
|
2949 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
|
|
|
2950 shortname conversion.
|
|
|
2951 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
|
|
|
2952 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
|
|
|
2953 file.
|
|
|
2954 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
|
|
|
2955 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
|
|
|
2956 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
|
|
|
2957 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
|
|
|
2958 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
|
|
|
2959 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
|
|
|
2960 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
|
|
|
2961 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
|
|
|
2962 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
|
|
|
2963 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
|
|
|
2964 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
|
|
|
2965 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
|
|
|
2966 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
|
|
|
2967 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
|
|
|
2968 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
|
|
|
2969 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
|
|
|
2970 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
|
|
|
2971 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
|
|
|
2972 waiting for a character to be typed).
|
|
|
2973 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
|
|
|
2974 line of the window, like "[time]".
|
|
|
2975 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
|
|
|
2976 Automatic and/or with a command.
|
|
|
2977
|
|
|
2978
|
|
|
2979 Substitute:
|
|
|
2980 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
|
|
|
2981 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
|
|
|
2982 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
|
|
|
2983 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
|
|
|
2984 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
|
|
|
2985 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
|
|
|
2986 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
|
|
|
2987 :s///N substitutes N times.
|
|
|
2988 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
|
|
|
2989 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
|
|
|
2990 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
|
|
|
2991 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
|
|
|
2992 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
|
|
|
2993 last line column 5.
|
|
|
2994 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
|
|
|
2995 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
|
|
|
2996 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
|
|
|
2997 (Stanislav Sitar)
|
|
|
2998
|
|
|
2999
|
|
|
3000 Mouse support:
|
|
|
3001 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
|
|
|
3002 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
|
|
|
3003 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
|
|
|
3004 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
|
|
|
3005 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
|
|
|
3006 7 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
|
|
|
3007 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
|
|
|
3008 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
|
|
|
3009 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
|
|
|
3010 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
|
|
|
3011 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
|
|
|
3012
|
|
|
3013
|
|
|
3014 Crypt and security:
|
|
|
3015 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
|
|
|
3016 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
|
|
|
3017
|
|
|
3018
|
|
|
3019 Argument list:
|
|
|
3020 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
|
|
|
3021 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
|
|
|
3022 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
|
|
|
3023 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
|
|
|
3024
|
|
|
3025
|
|
|
3026 Registers:
|
|
|
3027 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
|
|
|
3028 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
|
|
|
3029 around in windows.
|
|
|
3030 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
|
|
|
3031 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
|
|
|
3032 for every line.
|
|
|
3033 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
|
|
|
3034 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
|
|
|
3035 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
|
|
|
3036 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
|
|
|
3037 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
|
|
|
3038 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
|
|
|
3039 leader when line wraps?
|
|
|
3040 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
|
|
|
3041 line in the range.
|
|
|
3042 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
|
|
|
3043 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
|
|
|
3044 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
|
|
|
3045 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
|
|
8
|
3046
|
|
7
|
3047
|
|
|
3048 Debug mode:
|
|
|
3049 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
|
|
|
3050 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
|
|
9
|
3051 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
|
|
7
|
3052 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
|
|
23
|
3053 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
|
|
|
3054 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
|
|
|
3055 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
|
|
7
|
3056 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
|
|
|
3057 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
|
|
|
3058
|
|
|
3059
|
|
|
3060 Various improvements:
|
|
|
3061 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
|
|
|
3062 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
|
|
41
|
3063 - Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
|
|
|
3064 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
|
|
|
3065 Govindachar)
|
|
7
|
3066 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
|
|
|
3067 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
|
|
22
|
3068 7 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string
|
|
|
3069 variable. Also accept a list variable?
|
|
7
|
3070 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
|
|
|
3071 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
|
|
|
3072 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
|
|
|
3073 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
|
|
|
3074 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
|
|
|
3075 window as a buffer-tab selection.
|
|
|
3076 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
|
|
|
3077 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
|
|
|
3078 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
|
|
|
3079 all changes are gone.
|
|
|
3080 7 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
|
|
|
3081 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
|
|
|
3082 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
|
|
|
3083 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
|
|
|
3084 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
|
|
|
3085 in this Vim.
|
|
|
3086 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
|
|
|
3087 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
|
|
|
3088 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
|
|
|
3089 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
|
|
|
3090 have it apply to the following command.
|
|
|
3091 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
|
|
|
3092 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
|
|
|
3093 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
|
|
|
3094 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
|
|
|
3095 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
|
|
|
3096 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
|
|
|
3097 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
|
|
|
3098 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
|
|
|
3099 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
|
|
|
3100 without modifier (unless mapped).
|
|
|
3101 8 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
|
|
|
3102 7 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
|
|
|
3103 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
|
|
|
3104 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
|
|
|
3105 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
|
|
|
3106 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
|
|
|
3107 highlighted differently.
|
|
|
3108 8 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
|
|
|
3109 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
|
|
|
3110 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
|
|
|
3111 (truncated to fit in the space).
|
|
|
3112 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
|
|
|
3113 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
|
|
|
3114 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
|
|
|
3115 Visual mode.
|
|
8
|
3116 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
|
|
7
|
3117 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
|
|
|
3118 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
|
|
|
3119 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
|
|
|
3120 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
|
|
|
3121 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
|
|
|
3122 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
|
|
|
3123 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
|
|
|
3124 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
|
|
|
3125 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
|
|
|
3126 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
|
|
|
3127 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
|
|
|
3128 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
|
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|
3129 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
|
|
|
3130 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
|
|
|
3131 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
|
|
|
3132 8 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
|
|
|
3133 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
|
|
|
3134 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
|
|
|
3135 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
|
|
|
3136 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
|
|
|
3137 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
|
|
|
3138 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
|
|
|
3139 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
|
|
|
3140 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
|
|
|
3141 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
|
|
|
3142 does something like this. (Shah)
|
|
|
3143 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
|
|
|
3144 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
|
|
|
3145 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
|
|
|
3146 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
|
|
|
3147 8 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
|
|
|
3148 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
|
|
|
3149 line down, etc.
|
|
|
3150 8 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
|
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|
3151 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
|
|
|
3152 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
|
|
|
3153 to be made for all functions that list something.
|
|
|
3154 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
|
|
|
3155 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
|
|
|
3156 - Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
|
|
|
3157 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
|
|
|
3158 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
|
|
|
3159 7 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
|
|
|
3160 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
|
|
|
3161 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
|
|
|
3162 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
|
|
|
3163 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
|
|
|
3164 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
|
|
|
3165 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
|
|
|
3166 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
|
|
|
3167 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
|
|
|
3168 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
|
|
|
3169 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
|
|
|
3170 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
|
|
|
3171 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
|
|
|
3172 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
|
|
|
3173 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
|
|
|
3174 call "play newbeep.au").
|
|
|
3175 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
|
|
|
3176 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
|
|
|
3177 (Bhatt).
|
|
|
3178 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
|
|
|
3179 blockwise registers).
|
|
|
3180 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
|
|
|
3181 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
|
|
|
3182 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
|
|
|
3183 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
|
|
|
3184 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
|
|
|
3185 noticeable.
|
|
|
3186 9 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
|
|
|
3187 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
|
|
|
3188 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
|
|
|
3189 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
|
|
|
3190 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
|
|
|
3191 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
|
|
|
3192 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
|
|
|
3193 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
|
|
|
3194 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
|
|
|
3195 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
|
|
21
|
3196 7 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
|
|
|
3197 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
|
|
7
|
3198 8 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
|
|
|
3199 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
|
|
|
3200 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
|
|
|
3201 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
|
|
|
3202 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
|
|
|
3203 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
|
|
|
3204 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
|
|
|
3205 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
|
|
|
3206 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
|
|
|
3207 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
|
|
|
3208 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
|
|
|
3209 not in column 1.
|
|
|
3210 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
|
|
|
3211 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
|
|
|
3212 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
|
|
|
3213 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
|
|
|
3214 8 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
|
|
|
3215 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
|
|
|
3216 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
|
|
|
3217 :redir @> register (append)
|
|
|
3218 :redir # bufname
|
|
|
3219 :redir #> bufname (append)
|
|
|
3220 :redir = variable
|
|
|
3221 :redir => variable (append)
|
|
|
3222 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
|
|
|
3223 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
|
|
|
3224 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
|
|
|
3225 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
|
|
|
3226 console? (Klaus Hast)
|
|
|
3227 - Add :delcr command:
|
|
|
3228 *:delcr*
|
|
|
3229 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
|
|
|
3230 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
|
|
|
3231 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
|
|
|
3232 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
|
|
|
3233 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
|
|
|
3234 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
|
|
|
3235 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
|
|
|
3236 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
|
|
|
3237 characters from 'isprint'.
|
|
|
3238 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
|
|
|
3239 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
|
|
|
3240 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
|
|
|
3241 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
|
|
|
3242 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
|
|
|
3243 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
|
|
|
3244 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
|
|
|
3245 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
|
|
|
3246 Nvi).
|
|
|
3247 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
|
|
|
3248 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
|
|
|
3249 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
|
|
|
3250 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
|
|
|
3251 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
|
|
|
3252 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
|
|
|
3253 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
|
|
|
3254 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
|
|
|
3255 macro).
|
|
|
3256 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
|
|
|
3257 - Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match
|
|
|
3258 to jump to. (Zellner)
|
|
|
3259 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
|
|
|
3260 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
|
|
|
3261 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
|
|
|
3262 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
|
|
|
3263 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
|
|
|
3264 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
|
|
|
3265 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
|
|
|
3266 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
|
|
|
3267 if it is not the first or last window.
|
|
|
3268 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
|
|
|
3269 there is one) instead of the file itself.
|
|
|
3270 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
|
|
|
3271 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
|
|
|
3272 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
|
|
|
3273 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
|
|
|
3274 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
|
|
|
3275 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
|
|
|
3276 many percent down the windows).
|
|
|
3277 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
|
|
|
3278 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
|
|
|
3279 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
|
|
|
3280 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
|
|
|
3281 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
|
|
|
3282 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
|
|
|
3283 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
|
|
|
3284 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
|
|
|
3285 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
|
|
|
3286 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
|
|
|
3287 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
|
|
|
3288 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
|
|
|
3289 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
|
|
|
3290 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
|
|
|
3291 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
|
|
|
3292 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
|
|
|
3293 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
|
|
|
3294 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
|
|
|
3295 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
|
|
|
3296 t_bs is set? (Webb)
|
|
|
3297 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
|
|
|
3298 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
|
|
|
3299 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store
|
|
|
3300 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
|
|
|
3301 (Webb).
|
|
|
3302 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
|
|
|
3303 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
|
|
|
3304 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
|
|
|
3305 hex codes like 0xff).
|
|
|
3306 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
|
|
|
3307 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
|
|
|
3308 the last TYPED command.
|
|
|
3309 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
|
|
|
3310 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
|
|
|
3311 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
|
|
|
3312 should also work?
|
|
|
3313 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
|
|
|
3314 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
|
|
|
3315 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
|
|
|
3316 name.
|
|
|
3317 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
|
|
|
3318 trailing '.'.
|
|
|
3319 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
|
|
|
3320 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
|
|
|
3321 find_file_in_path().
|
|
|
3322 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
|
|
|
3323 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
|
|
|
3324 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
|
|
|
3325 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
|
|
|
3326 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
|
|
|
3327 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
|
|
|
3328 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
|
|
|
3329 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
|
|
|
3330 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
|
|
|
3331 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
|
|
|
3332 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
|
|
|
3333 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
|
|
|
3334 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
|
|
|
3335 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
|
|
|
3336 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
|
|
|
3337 to the minimal size.
|
|
|
3338 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
|
|
|
3339 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
|
|
|
3340 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
|
|
|
3341 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
|
|
|
3342 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
|
|
|
3343 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
|
|
|
3344 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
|
|
|
3345 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
|
|
|
3346 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
|
|
|
3347 entered)?
|
|
|
3348 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
|
|
|
3349 as an output filter.
|
|
|
3350 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
|
|
|
3351 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
|
|
|
3352 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
|
|
|
3353 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
|
|
|
3354 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
|
|
|
3355 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
|
|
|
3356 lines.
|
|
|
3357 - Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
|
|
|
3358 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
|
|
|
3359 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
|
|
|
3360 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
|
|
|
3361 or in octal.
|
|
|
3362 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
|
|
|
3363 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
|
|
|
3364 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
|
|
|
3365 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
|
|
|
3366 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
|
|
|
3367 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
|
|
|
3368 insert line command).
|
|
|
3369 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
|
|
|
3370 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
|
|
|
3371 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
|
|
|
3372 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
|
|
|
3373 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
|
|
|
3374 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
|
|
|
3375 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
|
|
|
3376 yet.
|
|
|
3377 - Implement 'redraw' option.
|
|
|
3378 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
|
|
|
3379 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
|
|
|
3380 - Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read
|
|
|
3381 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism.
|
|
|
3382 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
|
|
|
3383 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
|
|
|
3384 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
|
|
|
3385 do it.
|
|
|
3386 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
|
|
|
3387 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
|
|
|
3388 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
|
|
|
3389 - Add text justification option.
|
|
|
3390 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
|
|
|
3391 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
|
|
|
3392 off".
|
|
|
3393 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
|
|
|
3394 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
|
|
|
3395 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
|
|
|
3396 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
|
|
|
3397 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
|
|
|
3398 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
|
|
|
3399 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
|
|
|
3400 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
|
|
|
3401 commands.
|
|
|
3402 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
|
|
|
3403 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
|
|
|
3404 - :table command (Webb)
|
|
|
3405 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
|
|
|
3406 - Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
|
|
|
3407 internal scripting language or Perl?
|
|
|
3408 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
|
|
|
3409 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
|
|
|
3410 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
|
|
|
3411 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
|
|
|
3412 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
|
|
|
3413 (Demirel).
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3414 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
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3415 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
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3416 for use in macro's and the like.
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3417 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
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3418 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
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3419 - Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
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3420 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
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3421 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
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3422 read-only mode).
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3423 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
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3424 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
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3425 a window to become smaller (Webb).
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3426 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
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3427 proportionally (Webb).
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3428 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
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3429 mkopttab to make option table?
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3430 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
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3431 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
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3432 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
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3433 (Haritsis).
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3434 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
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3435 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
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3436 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
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3437 cursor?
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3438 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
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3439 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
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3440 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
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3441 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
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9
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3442 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
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3443 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
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3444 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
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3445 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
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3446 option name.
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7
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3447 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
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3448 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
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3449 (Netherton)
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3450 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
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3451 space after "(", for example.
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3452 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
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3453 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
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3454 (Servatius Brandt)
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3455
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3456
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3457 From Elvis:
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3458 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
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3459 - Add ":alias" command.
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3460 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
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3461 - Search patterns:
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3462 \@ match word under cursor.
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3463 but do:
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3464 \@w match the word under the cursor?
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3465 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
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3466 8 ":window" command:
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3467 :win + next window (up)
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3468 :win ++ idem, wrapping
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3469 :win - previous window (down)
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3470 :win -- idem, wrapping
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3471 :win nr to window number "nr"
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3472 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
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3473 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
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3474 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
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3475
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3476
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3477 From Nvi:
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3478 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
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3479 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
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3480 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
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3481 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
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3482 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
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3483 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
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3484 :bg :hide
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3485 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
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3486 :dis b :ls
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3487 :Edit fname :split fname
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3488 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
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3489 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
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3490 :Previous :sprevious
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3491 :Tag :stag
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3492
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3493
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3494 From xvi:
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3495 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
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3496 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
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3497
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3498
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3499 From vile:
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3500 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
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3501 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
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3502 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
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3503
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3504
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3505 Far future and "big" extensions:
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3506 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
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3507 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
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3508 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
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3509 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
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3510 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
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3511 current layout mirrored.
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3512 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
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3513 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
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3514 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
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3515 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
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3516 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
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3517 font in each top-level window.
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3518 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
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3519 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
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3520 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
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3521 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
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3522 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
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3523 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
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3524 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
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3525 mentioned in the tags file.
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3526 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
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3527 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
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3528 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
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3529 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
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3530 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
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3531 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
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3532 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
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3533 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
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3534 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
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3535 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
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3536 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
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3537 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
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3538 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
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3539 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
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3540 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
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3541 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
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3542
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3543
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3544 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
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3545 vim: set fo+=n :
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