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diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt index 23267a69..59bc24e1 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/todo.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Feb 10 +*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2006 Feb 14 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -30,19 +30,48 @@ be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. *known-bugs* -------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- +Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own split +windows. Let's call them "tab pages". + + todo: + - ":qa"? + - "2gt" doesn't restore syntax HL. GUI: scrollbars are wrong. + - line at top of frame with tabs. 'tabline' option 0/1/2 like 'laststatus' + Use the name of the first buffer in the tab (ignoring the help window, + unless it's the only one). Add a number for the window count. + Add 'tabtext' option, like 'statusline'. + Select tab with mouse. + - When deleting a buffer also close windows in other tab pages. + - check all places where (firstwin == lastwin) is used (and vise versa) + - check all places wheren only_one_window() is used. + - When Vim window is resized all tabs must be resized. + - E999 + - ":tabclose N" close tab N + docs: + :tabedit + :tabfind + :tab N + :tabs + {count}gt + :tabclose + :close and :quit (last window in tab) + "gt": Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to another tab. "gt" goes to the + next one. Hint in docs: To mess with another buffer, without + changing the window layout, do this in another tab. + + add GUI Tabs for some systems. + Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. + Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7). + + Don't forget to provide an "X" to close the current tab. + + Need to be able to search the windows in inactive tabs, e.g. for the + quickfix window. + + Crash with X command server (Ciaran McCreesh). -ccomplete / omnicomplete: -- For C add tag "kind" field to each match? -- Flickering because of syntax highlighting redrawing further lines. -- Finding out if an item has members (to add '.' or '->') requires a grep in - the tags files, that is very slow. Is there another solution? At least - stop at the first match. - Could build the list of items for each structure in memory. Is that faster? - Not using too much memory? -- When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file? -- Special mappings for when the popup menu is visible? Would allow for making - a specific selection (e.g, methods vs variables). +Ctags still hasn't included the patch... spelling: - Also use the spelling dictionary for dictionary completion. @@ -87,13 +116,6 @@ spelling: adding a bad word like "zw" would. Use "zuw" to undo "zw"? (Antonio Colombo) -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) - An error in a function uses a line number that doesn't take line continuation into account. (Mikolaj Machowski) Store line count in an extra array? @@ -113,7 +135,6 @@ Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung): (Alan Schmitt) Patch to add a few flags to search(). (Benji Fisher, Nov 29, doc update Dec 1) -Also add search???() function that returns list with lnum and col. Win32: Use the free downloadable compiler 7.1 (2003). Figure out how to do debugging (with Agide?) and describe it. (George Reilly) @@ -125,9 +146,6 @@ Try using Visual C++ Express 2005. (Ilya Bobir Dec 20) Win32: Check that installer puts menu items in "all users" dir when possible, not administrator dir. -CTRL-X CTRL-L only completes from loaded buffers. Make it work for unloaded -buffers too? - 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 @@ -158,48 +176,30 @@ Awaiting response: CONSIDERED FOR VERSION 7.0: -- Omni completion: Understands the programming language and finds matches - that make sense. Esp. members of classes/structs. - - It's not much different from other Insert-mode completion, use the same - mechanism. Use CTRL-X CTRL-O and 'omnifunc'. Set 'omnifunc' in the - filetype plugin, define the function in the autoload directory. - - Separately develop the completion logic and the UI. When adding UI stuff - make it work for all completion methods. +Omni completion: + ccomplete: + - Finding out if an item has members (to add '.' or '->') requires a grep + in the tags files, that is very slow. Is there another solution? At + least stop at the first match. + Could build the list of items for each structure in memory. Is that + faster? Not using too much memory? + - For C add tag "kind" field to each match? + - Flickering because of syntax highlighting redrawing further lines. + - When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file? 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) + And/or: Provide a function to popup the menu, so that an insert mode + mapping can start it (with a specific selection). - GUI implementation of the popup menu. - - When using tags, show match in preview window (function prototype, - struct member, etc.). + - Show "info" from a match in preview window. Or use one window for matches, another for context/info (Doug Kearns, 2005 Sep 13) - Ideas on: http://www.wholetomato.com/ - Completion logic: - Use runtime/autoload/{filetype}complete.vim files. - - In function arguments suggest variables of expected type. - Tags file has "signature" field. - - List of completions is a Dictionary with items: - complist[0]['text'] = completion text - complist[0]['type'] = type of completion (e.g. function, var, arg) - complist[0]['help'] = help text (e.g. function declaration) - complist[0]['helpfunc'] = function that shows help text - etc. - - Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include the "." and "->" to restrict the - number of possible matches? (Flemming Madsen) - - In general: Besides completion, figure out the type of a variable - and use it for information. - Ideas from others: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim @@ -212,10 +212,6 @@ CONSIDERED FOR VERSION 7.0: Uses ctags to find the info: ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files - UI: popup menu with list of alternatives, icon to indicate type - optional popup window with info about selected alternative - Unrelated settings are changed (e.g. 'mousemodel'). - www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang) IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/ @@ -223,21 +219,15 @@ CONSIDERED FOR VERSION 7.0: Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: - - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an - interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a - Vim-script list. - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information. Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc. Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java. - Check Readline for its completion interface. - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running ctags, merging the tags of the changed file. - "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products: Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match? - - Provide a function to popup the menu, so that an insert mode mapping can - start it (with a specific selection). - UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info. When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo) @@ -259,24 +249,6 @@ CONSIDERED FOR VERSION 7.0: before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp"). -7 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own - split windows. - In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages". - Use the name of the first buffer in the tab (ignoring the help window, - unless it's the only one). Add a number for the window count. - First make it work on the console. Use a line of text with highlighting. - Then add GUI Tabs for some systems. - Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. - Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7). - Don't forget to provide an "X" to close the current tab. - Implementation: keep the list of windows as-is. When switching to another - tab make the buffers in the current windows hidden, save the window - layout, buildup the other window layout and fill with buffers. - Need to be able to search the windows in inactive tabs, e.g. for the - quickfix window. - Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab? - Also hidden tabs? Useful for messing with a temp buffer without changing - the window layout. - 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. @@ -431,7 +403,7 @@ Awaiting updated patches: 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) + - gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) Update 2004 Sep 10 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) Search in 'runtimepath'? @@ -2085,6 +2057,9 @@ Shared libraries: Tags: +7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the + number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members. + (Flemming Madsen) 7 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able @@ -3288,6 +3263,13 @@ Debug mode: Various improvements: +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. + The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called. + Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. + (2005 Nov 24) 7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next ("vatv"). 7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to @@ -3419,9 +3401,6 @@ Various improvements: paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 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'. 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 |