Problem: When using the CompleteDone autocommand event it's difficult to
get to the completed items.
Solution: Add the v:completed_items variable. (Shougo Matsu)
Problem: The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches()
but can't be set with setmatches(). (Lcd)
Solution: Fix setmatches(). (Christian Brabandt)
Problem: In a string "\U" only takes 4 digits, while after CTRL-V U eight
digits can be used.
Solution: Make "\U" also take eight digits. (Christian Brabandt)
Problem: Various problems with locked and fixed lists and dictionaries.
Solution: Disallow changing locked items, fix a crash, add tests. (Olaf
Dabrunz)
Problem: When starting several Vim instances in diff mode, the temp files
used may not be unique. (Issue 353)
Solution: Add an argument to vim_tempname() to keep the file.
Problem: When completing a shell command, directories in the current
directory are not listed.
Solution: When "." is not in $PATH also look in the current directory for
directories.
Problem: glob() and globpath() cannot include links to non-existing files.
(Charles Campbell)
Solution: Add an argument to include all links with glob(). (James McCoy)
Also for globpath().
Problem: Vim hangs when freeing a lot of objects.
Solution: Do not go back to the start of the list every time. (Yasuhiro
Matsumoto and Ariya Mizutani)
Problem: For complicated list and dict use the garbage collector can run
out of stack space.
Solution: Use a stack of dicts and lists to be marked, thus making it
iterative instead of recursive. (Ben Fritz)
Problem: Calling system() with empty input gives an error for writing the
temp file.
Solution: Do not try writing if the string length is zero. (Olaf Dabrunz)
Problem: In some situations, when setting up an environment to trigger an
autocommand, the environment is not properly restored.
Solution: Check the return value of switch_win() and call restore_win()
always. (Daniel Hahler)
Problem: gettabvar() is not consistent with getwinvar() and getbufvar().
Solution: Return a dict with all variables when the varname is empty.
(Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Problem: When an InsertCharPre autocommand executes system() typeahead may
be echoed and messes up the display. (Jacob Niehus)
Solution: Do not set cooked mode when invoked from ":silent".
Problem: Text drawing on newer MS-Windows systems is suboptimal. Some
multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula)
Solution: Add the 'renderoptions' option to enable Direct-X drawing. (Taro
Muraoka)
Problem: Using a regexp pattern to highlight a specific position can be
slow.
Solution: Add matchaddpos() to highlight specific positions efficiently.
(Alexey Radkov)
Problem: When 'verbose' is set to display the return value of a function,
may get E724 repeatedly.
Solution: Do not give an error for verbose messages. Abort conversion to
string after an error.
