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diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt index ad5209aee..d6da62fd7 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/todo.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Oct 24 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Dec 09 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,65 +30,38 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- -Include NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20) - See two messages for list of changed files. Additionally: - doc/eval.txt - Docs for message E680. - -Line number not updated when inserting a line in anothe window. (Hitier -Sylvain, Oct 24) - -Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble: - buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c) - alternate buffer gets "read error" flag. - ":sbuf" and ":ball" leave an empty window behind. -Change in handle_swap_exists() also in 6.3? -Add enter_cleanup() and leave_cleanup() also in 6.3? - buffer.c - ex_eval.c - proto/ex_eval.pro - structs.h - vim.h - -Win32: When the path to a file has Russian characters, ":cd %:p:h" doesn't -work. (Valery Kondakoff) -Solved in os_mswin.c. Add to 6.3? - -Patch for Win32 textdomain: NAKADAIRA Yukihiro, Sept 17. - -Handling decimal point on keypad: use MapVirtualKey. (Vince Negri, Oct 20) - -Valencia: executable("xxd.exe") returns true while "!xxd" doesn't work. -Works fine for me. Only in specific environment? - -netrw plugin: When coming back to the same directory a scratch buffer appears. -Only on Win32. (Charles Campbell, Sept 15) - -New Eiffel indent script from Jocelyn Fiat. OK with David Clarke. +Add a function to test if a font name actually works. -Win32: not using 'tenc' in GUI causes problems on Win 98? (Jiri Jezdinsky) -Try out with Russian input method. +When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you only get one line +for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) When the Vim window is resized (e.g., +xterm with many lines) it's OK. -After "Y" '[ and '] are not at start/end of the yanked text. (Ken Clark) +":e <cfile>" does not expand ~/file, very confusing compared to ":e ~/file". -Patch for adding 'fsync' option: disable using fsync() on file write. (Sept. -26, Ciaran McCreesh) +SIGHUP is delayed until waiting for a character. Can the same thing be done +for SIGINT? Then also check when waiting for a short time. -Folding for C syntax: (Olaf Dabrunz 27 sept 2004) +When no termcap/termlib library is found, check that compiling Vim works in +configure. Give an clear error message ("install termcap or ncurses-dev +package") when it doesn't. -Add remark about using Vim with VS .net to Visvim docs. (David Fishburn, Sept -27) +When doing ":w file" 'modified' is reset, but "u" sets it, while the file is +actually unchanged. Don't reset 'modified' when 'nocp' is set. -Vim icon for documents associated with Vim? (Rahul Kulkarni, sept 28) +Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. -Add a function to test if a font name actually works. +Using CTRL-A on "08" should not work like octal. (Matthew Duggan) -When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you only get one line -for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) When the Vim window is resized (e.g., -xterm with many lines) it's OK. - -":e <cfile>" does not expand ~/file, very confusing compared to ":e ~/file". +Cursor onder laatste regel na ":g/pat/s//>" commando waardoor regels niet meer +wrappen. (Adri Verhoef, Dec 1) +Included NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20) + See two messages for list of changed files. Additionally: + doc/eval.txt + Docs for message E680. + Docs for ":nbkey". + Asked Gordon to send the differences again, some parts apparently are + missing. For version 7.0: @@ -172,6 +145,8 @@ For version 7.0: Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) + - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the + quickfix window (2004 dec 2) 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. @@ -204,13 +179,32 @@ For version 7.0: runtime files? Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR + - Add the ":cbuffer" command: read list of errors from a buffer instead + of from a file. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, Oct 31, but avoid the temp file) + Perhaps ":cexpr" could read from a list? + Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh + Govindachar) + - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used. + Need to escape backslashes. + Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered. + - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif + and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18). +- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the + column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". + Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, Nov 4. Or use ":grep" and set 'grepprg' + to something special? Could also do both. + Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be + searched. + Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. - Edit same file on Unix and from MS-Windows: no warning for swap file. +- Drop the kvim support? There is no maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to + replace it. - In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. - KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? - Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. -- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) +- KDE GUI Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) (upd. Oct 25 2004) - Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be incremented/decremented each time. - For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. @@ -279,9 +273,11 @@ For version 7.0: Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an incompatible change. 7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own - split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. - Also for the console! In Emacs these are called frames. + split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. + Also for the console! + In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages". Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab? + Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7). - EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. @@ -337,14 +333,18 @@ For version 7.0: - "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) -The fsync() in buf_write() causes laptop harddisk spinup. Add an option to -avoid it? +Win32: When setting 'encoding' in a Vim server to "utf-8", and using "vim +--remote russian" in a console, "russian" should be converted from the console +encoding to utf-8. Send all remote messages in utf-8? Only on Win32? Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug 2004). Should also work for 'filetype'. Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav -Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13) +Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31) + +":bufdo g/something/p" has the last match overwritten by the file info. +Example by Cesar Andalou (Nov 3). Win32: In 'fileencodings' allow using "acp" for the active codepage. Useful value: "ucs-bom,utf-8,acp,latin1" @@ -375,7 +375,13 @@ name. (Charles Campbell) Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X. -Install vim-it.1 manual page in .../man/it/man1/vim.1 +Add Makefile code to install *-it.1 manual pages in .../man/it/man1/*.1 + +HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of +profiling for Vim script? + +Mac: problem with Xcode, Vim doesn't continue until the next click. +Apparently hanges in handle_drop(). A PostEvent() avoids it. (Da Woon Jung) Vi incompatibility: @@ -1218,6 +1224,8 @@ Problems that will (probably) not be solved: *extensions-improvements* Documentation: +8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link + to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind". 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded or not. 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) @@ -1308,8 +1316,10 @@ Folding: 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. -- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in - 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. +- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an + empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the + missing line goes unnoticed. + How to implement this? - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds smoother? @@ -1317,15 +1327,14 @@ Folding: using the wininfo in wi_folds. - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. + Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution? - "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to implement this? - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the cursor. - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. -- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to - implement this? - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) -- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like +8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like searches. @@ -1344,7 +1353,7 @@ Multi-byte characters: the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for - ":grep". + ":grep" and ":helpgrep". 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, @@ -1717,8 +1726,8 @@ Performance: this be improved? 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up MS-DOS version. (Negri) -7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding - from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) +7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax". + (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a @@ -2064,7 +2073,7 @@ GUI: 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 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? + get it back if we want it? It's already solved for GTK. - 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?). @@ -3340,11 +3349,6 @@ Various improvements: sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? -- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the - column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". - Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be - searched. - Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time t_bs is set? (Webb) - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also |