How to suggest new features for Vim

Who am I?

• MURAOKA Taro/村岡太郎
• http://www.kaoriya.net/
• twitter: @kaoriya
• github: koron
• a.k.a: KoRoN

My Performance

• Dynamic loading (if_perl and others)
• aquote/iquote textobj (idea from 2ch)
• User defined completion
• Direct Draw
• libiconv
• etc/many bug fixes

Bad Story of Proposal

1. I just came up with a good idea!
2. Listen to me, I have great idea! (send mail to vim-dev)
3. (ignored)
4. Why leaders didn't listen to my awesome idea...

Why this happend?: Missing Links

• Share PROBLEM
• Illustrate SOLUTION
• Show EVIDENCE
  • patch
  • mock
  • manual or so

Missing Links (Vim specific)

• Vim is the TEXT EDITOR
  • not an IDE
  • not a Programming Language
  • not a Runtime
• A patch is very important

Problems

• Lack of sharing PROBLEM
• Lack of illustrating SOLUTION
• Lack of EVIDENCE Patch 7.4.001 Problem: Character classes such as [a-z] to not react to 'ignorecase'. Breaks man page highlighting. (Mario Grgic) Solution: Add separate items for classes that react to 'ignorecase'. Clean up logic handling character classes. Add more tests. Files: src/regexp_nfa.c, src/testdir/test64.in, src/testdir/test64.ok *** ../vim-7.4.000/src/regexp_nfa.c 2013-08-01 18:27:51.000000000 +0200 --- src/regexp_nfa.c 2013-08-14 11:49:50.000000000 +0200 *************** *** 29,34 **** --- 29,37 ---- # define NFA_REGEXP_DEBUG_LOG "nfa_regexp_debug.log" #endif
• Lack of STRATEGY: philosophical incomprehension (無理解)

Causes Discommunication

Solutions

1. Build STRATEGY
2. Known your PROBLEM
3. Make SOLUTION simple
4. Write a PATCH

Leverage vim-jp: reviewer, collaborator and others

Patches

• efficient_printing.diff
• windows_transparency.diff
• charspace.diff
• caption_switch.diff
• ambiwidth_auto.diff
• sentence_until_punctuation.diff

• migemo_feature.diff
• guess_encode_feature.diff
• csearch_highlight.diff
• eval_rmdir.diff
• eval_marks.diff
• autoload_cache.diff

Comic Market 85

• 2013/12/31
• Tokyo Big Sight
• Spartan Vim vol.3
• Vim Towel (?)