IntelliJ-IdeaVim/vimscript-info/VIMSCRIPT_ROADMAP.md

Vimscript

IdeaVim 1.7.0

• expressions: binary, unary, ternary, function calls, sublists, options, registers, variables, lists, dictionaries
• if condition
• for and while loops
• try/catch/finally
• function definition (without flags)
• break, continue, throw, return
• scopes: g:, s:, l:, a:, b:, w:, t: (the v: scope is not supported yet)
• map <expr>

IdeaVim 1.8.0

• move s: scoped variables to Script class
• move l: and a: scoped variables to the FunctionDeclaration class
• closure function flag
• .. as concatenation operator
• falsy operator ??
• access dictionary value by dict.key
• abort function flag
• range function flag
• call command
• optional arguments ...
• funcref type
• lambdas
• function as method
• function function
• funcref function
• dict function flag
• anonymous functions
• default value in functions e.g. function F1(a, b = 10)
• has("ide") or "ide" option
• reduce number of rules in grammar
• classic package structure

IdeaVim 1.9.0

• support for [a, b] in {expr}
• pass scopes to functions e.g. for k in keys(s:)
• curly-braces-names
• finish statement
• pass Lists and Dictionaries by reference
• variable locking
• rewrite OptionManager to vim data types
• scoped options
• normal command
• expression register (<C-R>=)

Plans for the next releases:

IdeaVim 1.10.0

• Result class that would store the exceptions
• throwing multiple exceptions at once
• exception wrapping in try/catch
• store exception messages in property file
• store vim exception stacktrace

Pool of things that might be added soon

• executing context (script / command line) & better parent for executable
• classloading
• all the let command's cases (e.g. registers)
• vim "special" type
• v: scope
• update tests to JUnit 5
• rethink vimscript tests
• loggers
• todos, warnings
• expressions in substitute command (\=)
• vim status line and beautiful exceptions output
• improve w: and t: scopes
• context dependent parsing e.g. dict.key
• add -range option to command command
• better strings (e.g. "\<Esc")