Problem: no support for base64 en-/decoding functions in Vim Script
(networkhermit)
Solution: Add the base64_encode() and base64_decode() functions
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
fixes: #16291closes: #16330
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: current command completion is a bit limited
Solution: Add the shellcmdline completion type and getmdcomplpat()
function (Ruslan Russkikh).
closes: #15823
Signed-off-by: Ruslan Russkikh <dvrussk@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: No way to get prompt for input()/confirm()
Solution: add getcmdprompt() function (Shougo Matsushita)
(Shougo Matsushita)
closes: #15667
Signed-off-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: it's not possible to get a unique id for some vars
Solution: Add the id() Vim script function, which returns a unique
identifier for object, dict, list, job, blob or channel
variables (Ernie Rael)
fixes: #14374closes: #15145
Signed-off-by: Ernie Rael <errael@raelity.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: not possible to translate Vim script messages
(RestorerZ)
Solution: implement bindtextdomain() and gettext() to support Vim script
message translations (Christ van Willegen)
fixes: #11637closes: #12447
Signed-off-by: Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: cannot switch buffer in a popup
(Yggdroot)
Solution: add popup_setbuf() function
fixes: #15006closes: #15026
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Cannot get a list of positions describing a region
(Justin M. Keyes, after v9.1.0120)
Solution: Add the getregionpos() function
(Shougo Matsushita)
fixes: #14609closes: #14617
Co-authored-by: Justin M. Keyes <justinkz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: hard to get visual region using Vim script
Solution: Add getregion() Vim script function
(Shougo Matsushita, Jakub Łuczyński)
closes: #13998closes: #11579
Co-authored-by: =?UTF-8?q?Jakub=20=C5=81uczy=C5=84ski?= <doubleloop@o2.pl>
Co-authored-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shougo Matsushita <Shougo.Matsu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Need a diff() Vim script function
Solution: Add the diff() Vim script function using the
xdiff internal diff library, add support for
"unified" and "indices" mode.
(Yegappan Lakshmanan)
fixes: #4241closes: #12321
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim is missing a foreach() func
Solution: Implement foreach({expr1}, {expr2}) function,
which applies {expr2} for each item in {expr1}
without changing it (Ernie Rael)
closes: #12166
Signed-off-by: Ernie Rael <errael@raelity.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Cannot easily get the list of matches
Solution: Add the matchstrlist() and matchbufline() Vim script
functions (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
closes: #13766
Signed-off-by: Yegappan Lakshmanan <yegappan@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Problem: Vim9: need instanceof() function
Solution: Implement instanceof() builtin
Implemented in the same form as Python's isinstance because it allows
for checking multiple class types at the same time.
closes: #12867
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: LemonBoy <thatlemon@gmail.com>
Problem: undotree() only works for the current buffer
Solution: Add an optional "buffer number" parameter to undotree(). If
omitted, use the current buffer for backwards compatibility.
closes: #4001closes: #12292
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Co-authored-by: zeertzjq <zeertzjq@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Devin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>
Problem: no functions for converting from/to UTF-16 index.
Solution: Add UTF-16 flag to existing funtions and add strutf16len() and
utf16idx(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes#12216)
Problem: Code handling low level MS-Windows events cannot be tested.
Solution: Add test_mswin_event() and tests using it. (Christopher Plewright,
closes#11622)
Problem: There is no way to get a list of swap file names.
Solution: Add the swapfilelist() function. Use it in the test script to
clean up. Remove deleting individual swap files.
