Problem: Cannot read back the prompt of a prompt buffer.
Solution: Add prompt_getprompt(). (Ben Jackson, closesvim/vim#6851)
077cc7aa0e
Updated prompt_getprompt() doc to cb80aa2d53
and removed mention of method syntax usage (not supported by Nvim).
...signs is slow
Problem: Placing a larger number of signs is slow.
Solution: Add functions for dealing with a list of signs. (Yegappan
Lakshmanan, closes#4636)
Problem: When 'matchpairs' is empty every character beeps. (Marco Hinz)
Solution: Bail out when no character in 'matchpairs' was found.
(closesvim/vim#8053) Add assert_nobeep().
5b8cabfef7
Problem: shiftwidth() does not take 'vartabstop' into account.
Solution: Use the cursor position or a position explicitly passed.
Also make >> and << work better with 'vartabstop'. (Christian
Brabandt)
f951416a83
Problem: Cannot parse a date/time string.
Solution: Add strptime(). (Stephen Wall, closes #)
10455d43fe
N/A patches for version.c:
vim-patch:8.1.2344: Cygwin: warning for using strptime()
Problem: Cygwin: warning for using strptime().
Solution: Move defining _XOPEN_SOURCE and __USE_XOPEN to vim.h. (Ken Takata,
closesvim/vim#5265) Use 700 for _XOPEN_SOURCE for mkdtemp().
6a228c6463
Problem: Cannot easily get all the current marks.
Solution: Add getmarklist(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes#6032)
cfb4b47de0
Cherry-pick the column number fix from patch v8.2.0871
because patch v8.2.0871 cannot be fully ported
without the method patches.
Co-authored-by: Peter Wolf <pwolf2310@gmail.com>
Problem: trim() always trims both ends.
Solution: Add an argument to only trim the beginning or end. (Yegappan
Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#6126)
2245ae18e3
Problem: Not so easy to interrupt a script programatically.
Solution: Add the interrupt() function. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, closesvim/vim#2834)
67a2deb9cb
Problem: Cannot delete a match from another window. (Paul Jolly)
Solution: Add window ID argument to matchdelete(), clearmatches(),
getmatches() and setmatches(). (Andy Massimino, closesvim/vim#4178)
aff749145e
Problem: A plugin cannot easily expand a command like done internally.
Solution: Add the expandcmd() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#4514)
80dad48c50
Problem: MS-Windows: Cannot interrupt gdb when program is running.
Solution: Add debugbreak() and use it in the terminal debugger.
Respect 'modified' in a prompt buffer.
4551c0a9fc
Problem: json_encode() does not handle NaN and inf properly. (David
Barnett)
Solution: For JSON turn them into "null". For JS use "NaN" and "Infinity".
Add isnan().
f1b6ac7229
Problem: There is no easy way to manipulate environment variables.
Solution: Add environ(), getenv() and setenv(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
closesvim/vim#2875)
691ddeefb5
Problem: Cannot change a line in a buffer other than the current one.
Solution: Add setbufline(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Ozaki Kiichi, closesvim/vim#1953)
b31cf2bb0b
Problem: Cannot tell whether a register is being used for executing or
recording.
Solution: Add reg_executing() and reg_recording(). (Hirohito Higashi,
closesvim/vim#2745) Rename the global variables for consistency. Store
the register name in reg_executing.
0b6d911e5d
Problem: There is no function for the ":sign jump" command.
Solution: Add the sign_jump() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#3780)
6b7b7190aa
Problem: Placing signs can be complicated.
Solution: Add functions for defining and placing signs. Introduce a group
name to avoid different plugins using the same signs. (Yegappan
Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#3652)
162b71479b
Problem: Getting the jump list requires parsing the output of :jumps.
Solution: Add getjumplist(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closesvim/vim#2609)
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