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diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt index e856a5627..14097a936 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/todo.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Oct 12 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Nov 23 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,18 +30,66 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- +Using chown() is unsafe. (Jinpeng Wei) + ex_cmds.c: viminfo tempfile: use mch_open(O_EXCL) and fdopen() + fileio.c: use fchown() instead of chown() + vim.h: define O_NOFOLLOW if needed. Not in Vim 6.4? + +Go over all changes between 6.3 and 6.4 and make sure they are included in 7. + +'statusline' is drawn over the Omni menu. + +Cygwin and Mac OS/X may preserve case for file names but ignore case +differences. Use Amiga code? + +"make unixall": remove split in floppy-size archives. + +To support mapping <F4> to be used as <F4>{motion}: Add operator that +executes a user defined function. '[ and '] marks are at start and end of +text. ":map <F4> :set opfunc=MyOp<CR>gy". + +Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto: ":e ++enc=xxx" keeps encoding for conversion +errors and illegal bytes. How about replacing bytes with '?' or not? + ccomplete: - When an option is set: In completion mode and the user types (identifier) characters, advance to the first match instead of removing the popup menu. If there is no match remove the selection. (Yegappan Lakshmanan) +- Complete the longest common match instead of the first match? +- !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT and it's ilk are listed in the global completions - When completing something that is a structure, add the "." or "->". - When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file? +- Window resize when poup is displayed +- page-up / page-down spelling: - When a recognized word ends in a . don't have 'spellcapcheck" match it. -- Use KEEPCASE instead of "KEP". applies to affixes too. +- Use KEEPCASE instead of "KEP". It applies to the word including affixes + Hunspell also uses it. +- Hunspell has NOSUGGEST flag (use for obscene words?) +- Check out Hunspell 1.1.2. - Look into hungarian dictionary: http://magyarispell.sourceforge.net/rc3-beta2.zip +- Support breakpoint character · 0xb7 and ignore it? +- Dutch word list should be available here: http://www.woordenlijst.org/ +8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to + obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen) +- Finding suggestions with sound folding is slow. Somehow store the + sound-folded words and link to the words it comes from? + +When editing a file "a" that is a symbolic link to "b", while another Vim is +editing "b", there is no warning. Follow symlink to make swap file name? +Patch from Stefano Zacchiroli. + +In diff mode deleting lines is very slow. E.g., when diffing two .po files +and then sourcing po/cleaup.vim. + +7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on + the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). + Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the + "format/chinese.vim" plugin. +Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. (2005 +Nov 24) Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): - selecting proportional font breaks display @@ -52,10 +100,15 @@ Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. (Alan Schmitt) +Patch to add a few flags to search(). (Benji Fisher, Nov 22) + Win32: Use the free downloadable compiler 7.1. Figure out how to do debugging (with Agide?) and describe it. (George Reilly) Try out using the free MS compiler and debugger, using Make_mvc.mak. +Win32: Check that installer puts menu items in "all users" dir when possible, +not administrator dir. + Autoload: - Add a Vim script in $VIMRUNTIME/tools that takes a file with a list of script names and a help file and produces a script that can be sourced to @@ -67,7 +120,8 @@ Autoload: helpfile doc/myscript.txt For the "helpfile" item ":helptags" is run. -Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? +Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? Otherwise: ":sunmap", so that Visual mode +mappings for normal keys can be removed from Select mode. Awaiting response: - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than @@ -88,6 +142,10 @@ PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: make it work for all completion methods. UI: + - Complete longest common string first, like 'wildmode' "longest:full". + - Add an "auto" mode: after typing a character (or string) completion is + done for the longest common string. plugin defines the possible + characters/strings. (Martin Stubenschrott) - GUI implementation of the popup menu. - When using tags, show match in preview window (function prototype, struct member, etc.). @@ -191,9 +249,9 @@ PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. -- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, - assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it - generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb +- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye. + Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here: + http://clewn.sf.net. And the idevim plugin/script. To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the @@ -207,6 +265,7 @@ PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0: implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198. + Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine) - 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. @@ -353,7 +412,9 @@ Awaiting updated patches: How does this work? Missing comments. gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) Update 2004 Sep 10 - More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? + Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) + Search in 'runtimepath'? + More docs about how to use this. How to get the messages into the .po files? --- did not respond (yet) -- - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav @@ -395,7 +456,7 @@ Awaiting updated patches: 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. + Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. 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 @@ -791,7 +852,16 @@ MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. -8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? +8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's + a good fallback, thus use: + $HOME + $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH + SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE); + $USERPROFILE + SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE); + $ALLUSERSPROFILE + $SYSTEMDRIVE\ + C:\ 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. @@ -1382,22 +1452,19 @@ Spell checking: 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell. 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their use of words with a dash. -8 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to - obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen) 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists. 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'? :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments in English, strings in German (po file). -8 Implement compound words when it works for Myspell. Current idea has the - problem that "foo/X" always allows "foofoo", there is no way to specify a - word can only be at the start or end, or that only certain words combine. Diff mode: 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis + Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what + can be undone. (Tom Popovich) 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same location. @@ -1575,6 +1642,11 @@ 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 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then + when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what + highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a + password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull) + syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern' 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: @@ -3020,8 +3092,6 @@ Options: 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) -7 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on - the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). External commands: @@ -3349,7 +3419,8 @@ Various improvements: 7 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". 8 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the - builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. + builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. Or use a string that starts with "=" + in 'formatprg': "=MyFormat()". 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a |