updated for version 7.0002
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Bram Moolenaar
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*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 16
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*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 20
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VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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@ -30,19 +30,10 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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*known-bugs*
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-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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This example doesn't work:
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:e `=foo . ".c" `
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Inside `` don't use " as the start of a comment.
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Also don't expand % or #.
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Corrections for docs from A3. Skip ones already done.
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For version 7.0:
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- Include many PATCHES:
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9 Win32 GuI: The print dialog uses a font which doesn't display multi-byte
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messages. Include patch from Vipin Aravind? Update from Yasuhiro
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Matsumoto.
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9 Merge in ideas from tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann)
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New version 2004 June 16.
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8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
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8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15,
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but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
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@ -51,7 +42,7 @@ For version 7.0:
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8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
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fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
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the file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
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Do we still want this/
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Do we still want this? Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
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8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that
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trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode).
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:au Event <buffer> do-something
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@ -64,10 +55,79 @@ For version 7.0:
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VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
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patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
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He'll write documentation and send updated patch.
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InsmodEnter
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InsmodLeave Taro Muraoka, 2004 Jun 16
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- Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand)
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Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well.
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Mickael will update the patch before 21st.
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--- responses above
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8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes
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Zellner has a patch for this.
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updated patch 2004 June 16.
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7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/
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(Sergey Khorev)
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Alt URL: http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/scheme/mzvim-0.560.tar.gz
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8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
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New patch 2004 Jun 16
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8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of
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completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26.
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New patch 2004 Jun 16
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8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string.
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(Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16).
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New patch 2004 Jun 16
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7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28.
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again 2004 Jun 16
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8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
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Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
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He will update the patch for 6.3.
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9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
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set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
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Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
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underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. Update 2004 Jun 17
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Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
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line.
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7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
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Update 2004 Jun 17.
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8 Patches from Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka:
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- guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) will send update
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7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight
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positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the
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length of the file?
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Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey)
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Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24)
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Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25)
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New patch from Emmanuel Renieris, 2004 Jun 17
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Needs more work: use one option with one or two numbers
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7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of
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arguments:
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:function Foo(abc, ...)
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: call Bar(a:abc, a:*)
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Charles Campbell has a patch for this
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He lost the patch himself.
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7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
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Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
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And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9,
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http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch)
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Update 2004 June 18
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8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of
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the current buffer. (2003 June 17)
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Lost the patch himself.
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8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that
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does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the
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":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9)
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Update 2004 June 18
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8 ":hardcopy":
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- Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun
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14)
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- support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu
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Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20)
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Updated patch: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/special/index.html
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7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
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'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
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Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
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'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
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separate the from and to part is optional.
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Resp: no time now.
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--- responses above --
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7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
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Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
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line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
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@ -77,30 +137,10 @@ For version 7.0:
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Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11.
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8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
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(28 feb 2002).
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8 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
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Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim-icns/TransBack.diff
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8 Patches from "Rain Dog" Cucka:
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- guifont selector (2002 Dec 15)
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- scrollbar (2002 Dec 8)
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- Quartz fonts (2002 Dec 8)
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7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
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before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
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8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes
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Zellner has a patch for this.
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8 ":hardcopy":
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- Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun
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14)
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- support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu
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Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20)
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9 Merge in ideas from ~/vim/patches/tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann)
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8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
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- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
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for multi-byte characters.
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7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
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'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
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Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
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'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
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separate the from and to part is optional.
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- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
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- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
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use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
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- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
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line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
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Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
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9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
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set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
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Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
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underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24.
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Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
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line.
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7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of
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arguments:
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:function Foo(abc, ...)
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: call Bar(a:abc, a:*)
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Charles Campbell has a patch for this
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8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
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Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
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8 Add functions:
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tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8
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2004)
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Presser)
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He will send a new patch.
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Is this really useful?
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---
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multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character.
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Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25
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Update June 18 (third one).
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menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
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Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
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menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
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mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
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Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
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match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match
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Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 31
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Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19
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find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes
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Zellner 2001 Dec 20)
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Update 2004 Jun 16.
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gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro
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Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the
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.po files?
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Update 2004 Jun 17
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---
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realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
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user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
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3 2002)
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(Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
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raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
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Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
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gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro
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Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the
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.po files?
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7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28.
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7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
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better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
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7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching
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7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002
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Jan 11.
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- Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki.
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8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of
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completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26.
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7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
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9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
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the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
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(Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. Rich has
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a suggestion for a patch to fix this.
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e-mail to Rich bounced.
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7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
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Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
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And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9,
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http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch)
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8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string.
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(Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16).
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7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked
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area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from
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Yegappan Lakshmanan.
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7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
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to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
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8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of
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the current buffer. (2003 June 17)
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8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that
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does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the
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":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9)
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7 Win32: Add patch for 5-button mouse. (Michael Geddes 2001 Nov 26)
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8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
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Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
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7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
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7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
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7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/
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(Sergey Khorev)
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8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different
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value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan
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has a patch, 2002 feb 15)
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8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
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patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
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Or use emacs server kind of thing?
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7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight
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positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the
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length of the file?
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Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey)
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Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24)
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Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25)
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7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
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- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
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get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
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incomplete patch Mar 18)
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8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
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case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
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filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
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~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
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option name.
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- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
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incremented/decremented each time.
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- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references.
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Macintosh:
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9 Mac: The motion type is not stored on the clipboard. Using ":set
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clipboard=unnamed" makes "yyp" work characterwise. (Michael DeMoney)
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7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
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Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
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Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
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7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
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Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
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(Jack)
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bound windows.
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- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
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be bound by regexp searches
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- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenfull. (Campbell)
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- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
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- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
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fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
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of lines but not with a single line).
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Debug mode:
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7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
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8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
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8 Add breakpoits for assigning to a variable.
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8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
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7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
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when evaluating to non-zero.
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7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
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- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
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5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
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":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
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8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
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case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
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filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
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~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
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option name.
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8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
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where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
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(Netherton)
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