todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2016 Jan 27 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar TODO list for Vim *todo* This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able to look for "the next thing to do": Priority classification: 9 next point release 8 next release 7 as soon as possible 6 soon 5 should be included 4 nice to have 3 consider including 2 maybe not 1 probably not - unclassified *votes-for-changes* See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information. *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- Regexp problems: - The regexp engines are not reentrant, causing havoc when interrupted by a remote expression or something else. Move global variables onto the stack or into an allocated struct. - The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine matches everywhere. - Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and vcol. Reset them when moving to another line. - Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4) - Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@ and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7. - Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5) - Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13) - NFA regexp doesn't handle \%\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags. This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$". (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22) - Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12) - Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334) - Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309) - Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol, and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset col and vcol when moving to another line. - this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails. - The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24) - Search for \\~ causes error E874. - "\%1l^#.*" does not match on a line starting with "#". The zero-width match clears the start-of-line flag. +channel: - cleanup on exit? in mch_getout() and getout(). - more contents in channel.txt C89: remove __ARGS in more places - /tmp/noargs.vim - /tmp/eliminate__ARGS.vim - Script: Hirohito Higashi, Jan 25, 2nd one. - Assume HAVE_STDARG_H is always defined. This difference is unexpected: echo v:true == 1 1 echo [v:true] == [1] 0 It's because tv_equal() works different. Do we need to roll-back patch 1165, that put libintl-8.dll before libintl.dll? Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all interfaces and how to build Vim with them. Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23) More info Jul 24. Not clear why. Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24) Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15) jsonencode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23) What if there is an invalid character? Should jsonencode()/jsondecode() restrict recursiveness? Or avoid recursiveness. Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path. (Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592) Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong? Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere. It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right. Add configure check? Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS. Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4) Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882 (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6) ":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29) Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12) More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10. Now part of large file patches. (Ken Takata, 2016 Jan 19, second one) Updated patches with ordering: Jan 20. And another update: Jan 24 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item, ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell) Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 27. Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin. Perhaps we can use ":windo {cmd}"? Patch to add to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6, 2nd message) Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}". Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28) Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab. Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen. (Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28) Patch to support 64 bit ints for Number. (Ken Takata, 2016 Jan 21) Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from github with a URL like this: https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch. Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539. > When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in set_color_count(). Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack) Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comperator than when comparing individual items. Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice. Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match). Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.? Plugin to use Vim in MANPAGER. Konfekt, PR #491 Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4) MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4. Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it specifically? First try with the parens, then without. Half-finished patch to fix the Problem using cgn to change a search hit when replacement includes hit. Reported by John Beckett, fix by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 11. Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is inconsistent with the documentation. Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and 'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library. (Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28) Need a Vim equivalent of Python's None and a way to test for it. Use v:none. var == v:none Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan 24) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24 To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19) Test 44 fails when [[=A=]] is changed to [[=À=]]. Caused by getcmdline() not handling the 0x80 as a second byte correctly? (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 10) Weird encryption problems on Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Feb 13) Goes away when disabling the swap file. (might1, Feb 16) MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\". (Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29) Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line. Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep 24): :diffthis, :diffoff. ":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default. ":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct 9) The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4) Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5) Update Aug 14. Crash in :cnext on MS-Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Oct 27) When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet, the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21) Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan 26, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22) Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015 Sep 10) Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6) Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8. Patch to improve I/O for Perl. (Damien, 2015 Jan 9, update Jan 22 2nd one) Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14) Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY. Problem mentioned by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 4. Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectating that it ends in a slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12) ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little, 2014 Sep 11) Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23) When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the 'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20) Patch to apply 'fileformats' when starting Vim. (Mike Williams, 2015 Jul 22) Patch for matchit plugin related to multibyte chars. (Ken Takata, 2015 Jul 22) Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25) Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior: - in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer. - Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is covered by the above change. So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier). Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26) Work in progress. Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it. Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22) Is this right? Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8) Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed? Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito) Does this work for everybody? Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come. Patch to add wordcount(). Same info as g CTRL-G. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Nov 17) Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20) Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban) Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4) Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space. Issue #459. When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8) Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306. Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25) OK to not block marks? Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1) Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering. (Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe) Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94 Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep. When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline. Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17) When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost. (Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17) Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24) Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break. (Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27) When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19) Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21) Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~" lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2) Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19) Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny, 2015 Feb 6. Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4. Is this a good solution? Patch to add /pattern/ to :oldfiles. Pull #575. Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist() functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21) Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14) Second one. Update May 22. Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15. Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting. (Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2) Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26) Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined. Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name was already defined. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3) Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7) Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12) Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12) Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jan 4. Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6) Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler. (Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15) Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName(). Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes. (Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16) Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15) Update 2015 Jul 25 (email). Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list them: ":repeats". Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22) When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27) Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2) Patch from Jacob, Nov 2. "hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014 Jun 8) Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7) Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12) Update Dec 6. Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12) No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20) Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point. (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it? Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or arguments. Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475 Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6) Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4) New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded. Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7). Update 2015 Jan 10. Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time. Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var? What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21) Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events. (Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1) This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21) vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1' This neither: (ZyX) vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1' 'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory. Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read from? Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8) Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently. Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies. Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html User view: - Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?). Be able to look into the files before deciding to install. - Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces. - Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc. Updater uses that to decide what/how to update. Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts on vim.org. - Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks there. Can manually update when really needed. - Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide? - Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin. - Run the update manually, find latest version and install. - Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users. Implementation: - Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each plugin separate. - When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show the user what's going to change and ask for OK. - Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest? - Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before installing. Out of scope: - Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world. - Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be useful). Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29) CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28) When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu? Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) ":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25) Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19) Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems. Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name. Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31. Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function? Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16. Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013) Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25: https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477 VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28) Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4) Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what? Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen) Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14) Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it? The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346) For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name. Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22) Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24) Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16) Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23) Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12) With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa, 2013 Sep 5) Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5. Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira. /[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769. 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to "lucida_console:h8"). Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24 :help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work. Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function names. (ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6) Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5) Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4) With tests: Sep 5. Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work. (Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25) Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10) Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6. When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work. (Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14) Using ifoobar can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 13. Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a buffer. (2013 Dec 9) GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6) Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18) Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3. The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer. (Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22) Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22. The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it: - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete) - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func. Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5) Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables reliably? Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict. Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17) Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23. Not 100% sure this is the right solution. Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9) Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch. (David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19) 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when defined. Issue 28. Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 19, later message) Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15) Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May 5) Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19) Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4) Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18) Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5) May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist(). May 19: with local variables. May 28: with options Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep 28) With tests: Oct 9. Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place" optional. (2013 Jul 12) Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2) Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives: - Installer from Cream (Steve Hall). - Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen) https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2 - make it possible to do a silent install, see http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12 Version from Guopeng Wen does this. - MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/ - The one on Issue 279. Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe). How to test that it works well for all Vim users? Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9) Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec) Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg. - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished. Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work. In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after a reboot. Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31) Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive". Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27) Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20) patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6) Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183. I can't reproduce it. Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27) Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1) Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4. Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4. Or use expand('')? Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9) Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27) Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22. Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15) Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17) b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan 7) Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically? Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with vim.bindeval(). Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers, 2012 Aug 4) Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17) Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24) But use Gnome instead of GTK? Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer. Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8) Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after loading all files. Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only after starting up? 8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters. Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5. MS-Windows resizing problems: - Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement() - Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2) 'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23) Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28) Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22. Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28) Also question if examples are correct. The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O. Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18) But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O. Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Aug 16) When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty". xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this? URXVT: - will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon. - Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations: http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662 Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25) Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column. Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns) New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18. When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3) Do give the prompt? Quit with an error? Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14) Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug 24) Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18) Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6) Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013 Apr 18) Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27) And one for gui_x11.txt. ":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**". finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10) Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code. Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593. Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22) Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions, they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11) Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8) Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Nov 20) Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26) Update Jun 2. `] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9) Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29) BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech Lorens, 2012 Feb 21) Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this? Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27) Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line. On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz, 2012 Jun 19) 'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and 'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser) Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution. Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13) With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position. (Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly, need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called. Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14) The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) 'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31) Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks. Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others. Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012 Jan 19) Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used. "2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011 Oct 26) Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20) With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it. Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26) When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message. (Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17) Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben Fritz (2011 Oct 27). Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011 Jun 17) When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line, then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27) Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a ":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 15) Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3) BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not cleared. See test64. Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25) Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12) Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest(). On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a 64 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the right type. string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code? (ZyX, 2010 Aug 23) Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae) When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else (e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo. When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo. (ZyX, 2011 Mar 27) When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18) Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19) 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19. maparg() does not show the