The following options are missing: [no]optimize - affects screen redrawing method [no]redraw - simulate character insertion by redrawing line [no]slowopen - don't use character insertion tags="tags" - list of tags, used as TAGPATH I'd like to improve the versatility of the options whose value is a command: cc, make, kp, and ep. I'd like to add some notation that allows you to say where to insert the current filename or current word. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, elvis is configured to look for | only in .exrc files. It doesn't look for | in any interactively entered command lines, yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 'p', '#', and 'l' flags aren't supported. Also, ex commands don't accept counts; e.g., ":c5" can't be used to change five lines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following have been reported, but have not been verified. If you have experienced any of the following, and haven't reported it yet, then please report it now! I need more information about these bugs. [Bugs that are not in this list should also be reported, of course.] - Under VMS on an 80-column screen, after scolling sideways to approximately column 110, a ^L will not redraw the part of the line after the cursor. - On an Atari ST running under TOS: some ASCII keys seem to send '#' plus another key. (This is normal for non-ASCII keys like or , but ASCII keys should always send a single ASCII character.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIG JOBS: Desirable extension: merge input mode and visual command mode. Display long lines by wrapping, like the real vi (if ":set sidescroll=0") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - In the ":w >>filename" command, elvis doesn't allow any whitespace between the ">>" and "filename". - Elvis doesn't allow "backslash newline" inside a single EX command. - VMS intercepts the control-T character, which is normally used to increase indentation. The key works, but it doesn't do quite the same thing. (":map! ^I ^T" helps.) - Under VMS, file I/O is very slow. Looking over the vmsio.c file, I get the impression that it is rather over-done for elvis. Its speed could probably be inproved. - The errlist feature doesn't seem to work with the Borland compilers. Perhaps they write to stderr instead of stdout? This will probably be easy to solve once I modify the "cc" and "make" options, as described earlier. - The command ":0" should move the cursor to line 1. Currently, it doesn't move the cursor at all. - File preservation is still flakey. On DOS/TOS/VMS systems, it is also more complex that it should be. - The act of appending to a cut buffer (as in "Ayy) sets file modification flag. It shouldn't! - The .exrc file is limited to BLKSIZE bytes -- 2048 on most systems, but 1024 on Minicx-PC, Coherent, and MS-DOS. - I *still* haven't quite perfected the screen update code. If you suspect that the screen doesn't accurately reflect the contents of the edit buffer, then you should try doing a control-L. I'll be overhauling the screen update code soon to make it wrap long lines like the real vi. I expect to fix this bug then.