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See |sponsor|. + + *known-bugs* +-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- + +GTK2: font dialog uses font size zero when 'guifont' is "Courier". Patch from +Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2004 June 8. + +Python indent: # aser: still adds extra indent. + + +For version 7.0: +- Include many PATCHES: + - Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand) + Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well. +- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. + Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. +- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. +- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate + functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 + Feb 9). +- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" + like commands. +- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. + http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 + http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim +- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. + Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able + to select a version. +7 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", + Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for + non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) + 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! +- 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. +- 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 + 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 + terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the + other window. + Wishes for NetBeans commands: + - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. + - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) + in terminal mode. +- 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. + + +Vi incompatibility: +8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other + marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it + is deleted or restored. (Webb) + Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. + Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' + position is one line down. (Veselinovic) +8 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to + be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. + (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) +8 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon + Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. +8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should + make Vim exit. +7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line + (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). + Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. +8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips + loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument + given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) +6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but + only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag + in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. +8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another + symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. + Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file + names in one buffer??? + Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and + then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not + logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. +7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some + changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" + command was one command. +7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep + the ":map" when it's used without arguments? +7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. +7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. +7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a + flag in 'cpoptions' for this. +7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when + making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing + the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either + all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). +7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). +7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. +7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go + to the match with the tag? Option? +7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. +7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> + (Sayre). +7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the + cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). +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. +7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". + In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next + match. Nvi can do it too. +7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) + g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ + line 1\ line 2\\ + line 2\ line 3\\ + . line4/ +6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of + the way the shell is started? +6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange + thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). + + +GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): +8 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops + up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL + pointer if the menu was never displayed. +8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a + GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also + happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies + the minimal window width? +8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can + be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) +8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by + appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. + +GTK+ GUI known bugs: +8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj + Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in + creating a label? +9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim + when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and + vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. + It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. +7 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). + + +Win32 GUI known bugs: +8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 + file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? +8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. + The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. + Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html +8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be + WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) +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"). +6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" + of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) +7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason + appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible + to use an opaque background in most places? +8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that + when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. + Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. +8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font + in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the + UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. +7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, + 2004 May 9) +8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces + a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim + window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with + MS-Windows 98? + Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a + console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed + file: Window moves with the cursor! + Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? +8 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to + mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) +9 The print dialog uses a font which doesn't display multi-byte messages. + Include patch from Vipin Aravind? Update from Yasuhiro Matsumoto. +8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it + appear. (Sami Salonen) +8 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) +8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that + comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win + NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also + doesn't work properly. +8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops + up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it + appears in the right position. (Webb) +9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse + button doesn't give popup menu. + At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless + selection. + On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. + Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the + non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. +8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the + user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) + Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error + occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. +8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. + Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not + be read. +8 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to + scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). + Use a scrollable window. +7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida + Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). + Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. +7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the + keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to + scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse + anyway. +7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. + Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. +7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using + "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) +6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). +8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work + for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because + CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? +8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we + know which keyboard is being used? +7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern + doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn + area (Koloseike). +8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might + still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, + then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in + the font name). + + +Athena and Motif: +9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is + required and it's missing? +8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned + wrong. +9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can + be off by default. +9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, + keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting + flag. +8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. + Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. + Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. +8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? +6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting + the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all + menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of + the tooltips work though... +7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not + always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). +8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the + menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the + current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. + + +Athena GUI: +9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in + the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving + through files. +7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to + read long file names. (Schroeder) +4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go + through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the + window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" + problem during a refresh. +5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing + ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the + pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. + If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes + colors as it should. + Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the + pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? + + +Motif GUI: +8 Popup menu ordering is wrong. +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. +7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? + David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). +8 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. +8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes + very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. + (Phillipps) + + +GUI: +9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no + longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) +9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. + e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on + Solaris 2.6. (Marley) +9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim + is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) +8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key + should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). +8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both + the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate + the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. +8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling + gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state + of where it is processing the output. + Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. +8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font + doesn't work. +8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. +8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. +8 Add a few more command names. Patch from Jiri Brezina (28 feb 2002). +8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for + browse(). +8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, + use that code? Or use console dialog. +8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the + error message disappears too quick. +8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, + to avoid problems. +8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there + are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for + input. Or maybe every 100 ms? +8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank + lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". + When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. +8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed + up. Set erase character somehow? +8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character + (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. + Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. + Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) +8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. +7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not + visible. +7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is + hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) +7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it + doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. +8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the + bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) +8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not + redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. + When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the + remaining part of the window (Phillipps). +- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. +4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times + when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times + currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. + + +MSDOS/DJGPP: +9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) + When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the + BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. +8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. + change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? +9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused + code and reduce static data. +9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. + Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since + the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting + 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. +9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. + CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 + ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 + Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) + to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. + Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? + Make this work like in Win32 console. + Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended + key code. Use a translation table? +9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. + At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. +8 Use DJGPP 2.03. +8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. + Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). +8 setlocale() is bogus. +8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some + sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched + Windows 95 system! +8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) +7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 + machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). +7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: + COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) + Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). +8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add + modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. +7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. + The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a + crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are + "[New file]". +7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode + that is supported? +8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. +8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter + Briscoe) + + +MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: +8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use + gen_expand_wildcards(). +8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander + Wagner. +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 used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? +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. + Should work like in the GUI version. +8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for + STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. +8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when + it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? +8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" + followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be + another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. +8 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" + in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) +8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going + to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to + backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) + + +Windows 95: +8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file + name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. + Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). +8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the + long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). + + +Win32 console: +9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its + long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) + 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. + 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. + 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 + 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. + 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. + 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed + and the file is not saved. + Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its + long name. +8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at + how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. +7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, + besides the console. +8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) +9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with + <C-S-i>? +9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on + a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? +8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ + is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? +8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind. +7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? + Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when + exiting. + + +Amiga: +8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte + sequences. +9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove + backslashes in result. +8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do + all options, using white space separation. + + +Macintosh: +9 Mac: The motion type is not stored on the clipboard. Using ":set + clipboard=unnamed" makes "yyp" work characterwise. (Michael DeMoney) +7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. + Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac + (Jack) + dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html +8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear + to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) +8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. +8 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard + Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim-icns/TransBack.diff +8 Patches from "Rain Dog" Cucka: + - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) + - scrollbar (2002 Dec 8) + - Quartz fonts (2002 Dec 8) +9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) + - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. +8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. +8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. +8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. +8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. +9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be + a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) +9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when + scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) +9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two + seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) +9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. +8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) +8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) + + +"Small" problems: +8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, + the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited + normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure + the ATTENTION message shows up. +9 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with + 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though + the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to + check for the buffer to be unmodified. +8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the + error number, it's not a regular error message. +7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to + requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) +8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and + redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column + for redirection. +7 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local + and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses + a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? +7 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. + Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often + when compiled with Python (threading). +7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use + 'termencoding'. +7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears before + "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. +8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor + line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor + to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when + using the horizontal scrollbar. +7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed + with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the + invocations belong together. +8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this + buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) +8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the + tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the + UnxUtils.zip archive. + Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter + Briscoe says it's not as good. +8 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. +9 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from + Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with + syntax highlighting is also very slow. + Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? +8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing + ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) +7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: + use "~/" when possible. +8 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod. + (Thomas S. Urban) +7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte + character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail + byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] + (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). +8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when + defined. +7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an + ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. + Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. +7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode + "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second + delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) +7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the + bottom window only bigger as much as needed. +7 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) +7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. + Remove? (Dan Sharp) +9 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes + properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. + "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) +9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This + causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining + script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": + "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining + script can be called. +8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, + but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still + works. +9 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use + "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained + region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. +8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with + CTRL-C. +7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X + server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp + of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK + doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it + won't work for GTK anyway. +8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error + message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. +8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() + is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this + configurable? +8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. +9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes + the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work + then. (Pritesh Mistry) +8 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a + flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) +8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save + "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? +8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is + always written, even when the original file already exists. +7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, + nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. +9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file + being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being + written. +9 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an + error number. +7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. +8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes + Zellner has a patch for this. +8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose + set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when + 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. +8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global + variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) +9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing + swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give + a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating + one. +7 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the + drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a + warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory + as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special + character like ">". +7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. + Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. +7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that + session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. +7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed + command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's + covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y + direction, not horizontally? +8 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a + thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. +8 ":hardcopy": + - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 11) + - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. + - Need to handle unprintable characters. + - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform + dithering to make grey text? + - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu Ichimura. + New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) + - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total + number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) + - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. + - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. + Default to black when no syntax highlighting. + - Be able to print a window in diff mode. + - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate + one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). +8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the + text in following lines where the linebreak changes. +9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on + Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect + that Windows NT is being used? +8 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no + ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using + a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. + Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? +8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a + block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. +8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert + in lines that don't extend into the block? +8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O + yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) + Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. +8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from + 'linebreak'. +8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection + that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. + (Helmut Stiegler) +8 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends + in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) +9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When + 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending + on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of + 'magic' in history. (Margo) +9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for + ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". +9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern + isn't updated). +9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). +9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled + correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which + cause another redraw, etc. +8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() + must escape special characters in the pattern. +8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an + existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use + ":w!!" for that. + Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and + restore file to readonly afterwards. +7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get + error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the + background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as + the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from + clipboard) +7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal + selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark + Waggoner) +8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window + title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no + need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". +8 Wh |