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diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt index 86ff1a4a2..426bef60b 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 Dec 19 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Dec 24 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,10 +30,7 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- -Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. (Giuseppe Bilotta, -Oct 6 2004) - -Add Makefile code to install *-it.1 manual pages in .../man/it/man1/*.1 +Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. Using gui_mch_dialog() would be good, but need to move display_errors() to after @@ -51,134 +48,18 @@ Included NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20) Asked Gordon to send the differences again, some parts apparently are missing. -For version 7.0: +PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: - Include many PATCHES: - - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav - Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31) - 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching - tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. - 2004 Jul 11 - 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. 2004 Jul 11 - When more than two lines: perform a search in the Visual area only. - 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, 2004 Jul 11) - 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). - VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) + - VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. - Patch for specifying an expression for numbered lists. (Hugo Haas, + - Patch for specifying an expression for numbered lists. (Hugo Haas, 2004 Aug 7) - --- awaiting updated patch --- - 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. - Resp: no time now. - 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 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. - Aric Blumer has a patch for this. - He will update the patch for 6.3. - Autocommands: - 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. - Update 2004 Sep 6. - How does this work? Missing comments. - gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) - Update 2004 Sep 10 - More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? - How to get the messages into the .po files? - --- did not respond (yet) -- - 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). - 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears - before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. - - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work - for multi-byte characters. - - 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. - 8 Add functions: - 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/ ) - 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. - 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right - to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) - 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) - 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 ":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) - - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file, - the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files. - $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for - 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' @@ -324,6 +205,8 @@ After including patches: - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) - "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) +- In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased + with \u, \U, etc. Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug 2004). Should also work for 'filetype'. @@ -353,6 +236,107 @@ profiling for Vim script? Mac: problem with Xcode, Vim doesn't continue until the next click. Apparently hangs in handle_drop(). A PostEvent() avoids it. (Da Woon Jung) +Awaiting updated patches: + --- awaiting updated patch --- + 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. + Resp: no time now. + 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 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. + Aric Blumer has a patch for this. + He will update the patch for 6.3. + Autocommands: + 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. + Update 2004 Sep 6. + How does this work? Missing comments. + gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) + Update 2004 Sep 10 + More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? + How to get the messages into the .po files? + --- did not respond (yet) -- + - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav + Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31) + Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20. + 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). + 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears + before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. + - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work + for multi-byte characters. + - 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. + 8 Add functions: + 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/ ) + 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. + 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right + to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) + 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) + 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 ":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) + - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file, + the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files. + $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for + 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 + - 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). Vi incompatibility: 9 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan) @@ -1267,6 +1251,7 @@ Diff mode: Folding: (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; secondary: zB zS zT zZ) +8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. 8 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. (Noel Henson) 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the @@ -2053,9 +2038,10 @@ VMS: Autocommands: -9 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't - execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. - Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. +7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g., + CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific + buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or + changing the buffer name. 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two @@ -2626,6 +2612,8 @@ Incsearch: Searching: +7 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text? + "g?" is already used for rot13. 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on |