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