From c8c7472543ca9a6a191344d64cdc9245c9e6aa1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nyamatongwe
- At the end of italics style runs characters can be chopped off. An example is using Verdana
- 12 point italics for strings makes an ending double quote half visible and an ending single
- quote invisible. This is hard to solve completely, may be better to avoid these situations
- by, for example, choosing a font like Times New Roman for strings. There is a specific kluge
- for the end of line which adds some room for italics but this does not work elsewhere.
+ At the end of italics style runs characters can be chopped off. An example
+ is using Verdana 12 point italics for strings makes an ending double quote
+ half visible and an ending single quote invisible. This is hard to solve
+ completely, may be better to avoid these situations by, for example,
+ choosing a font like Times New Roman for strings. There is a specific kluge
+ for the end of line which adds some room for italics but this does not
+ work elsewhere.
- Dragging over bold text in some fonts will ripple because of the difference in size between
- drawing all of a string at once and drawing it in parts.
+ Dragging over bold text in some fonts will ripple because of the difference in
+ size between drawing all of a string at once and drawing it in parts.
- In read-only mode the caret moves when you type or perform other actions that would
- insert or remove text if not in read-only mode..
+ In read-only mode the caret moves when you type or perform other actions
+ that would insert or remove text if not in read-only mode..
Automatic scrolling when text dragged near edge of window.
@@ -55,6 +57,13 @@
+ Indented word wrap.
+
+ Folding for languages that don't have it yet and good folding for languages
+ that inherited poor folding from another languages folding code.
+
Simple pattern based styling.
Scintilla To Do
+
Flow diagrams inside editor similar to - GRASP. -
-- Automatic resizing of line number margin when font size is changed. + + GRASP.
A VCL component wrapper around Scintilla so it can be used with Delphi or Borland C++ Builder. - There is some work on this available. + There is some work + on this available.
Port to MacOS X. @@ -110,12 +118,13 @@ Could be modelled on Visual Studio's Ctrl+Shift+F8 command.
- Better or more flexible range for horizontal scrolling. + Automatically calculated range for horizontal scrolling.
- Commands and/or modes for treating display lines as document lines are now, such - as allowing the End key to move to the end of a display line. This can be useful when - Scintilla used to edit documentation as it is the normal convention for word processors. + Commands and/or modes for treating display lines as document lines are now, + such as allowing the End key to move to the end of a display line. This can be + useful when Scintilla used to edit documentation as it is the normal convention + for word processors.
Virtual space at the end of lines so the caret can be moved beyond the end @@ -126,7 +135,21 @@ SciTE To Do
- Printing on GTK+. + Interface to allow plugging in different scripting languages. +
++ Good regular expression support through a plugin. +
++ Allow tools to transform the selection, performing an operation like + indentation or sorting. +
++ Ctrl+Tab working like Visual C++ where it goes to the next window in + z-order. +
++ Compatible with GTK+ 2.
Tab bar on GTK+. @@ -149,16 +172,9 @@
Save All command.
-- Save as Copy command. -
Silent mode that does not display any message boxes.
-- Automatic detection of character set and code page through examining text - and determining Unicode mode by presence of BOM. -
- Mouse wheel panning (press the mouse wheel and then move the mouse) on Windows. + Mouse wheel panning (press the mouse wheel and then move the mouse) on + Windows.
Adding options to the save dialog to save in a particular encoding or with a @@ -180,17 +197,19 @@ Directions
- The main point of this development is Scintilla, and this is where most effort will go. - SciTE will get new features, but only when they make my life easier - I am not intending to - make it grow up to be a huge full-function IDE like Visual Cafe. The lines I've currently - decided not to step over in SciTE are any sort of project facility and any configuration - dialogs. SciTE for Windows now has a Director interface for communicating with a - separate project manager application. + The main point of this development is Scintilla, and this is where most effort will + go. SciTE will get new features, but only when they make my life easier - I am + not intending to make it grow up to be a huge full-function IDE like Visual + Cafe. The lines I've currently decided not to step over in SciTE are any sort of + project facility and any configuration dialogs. SciTE for Windows now has a + Director interface for communicating with a separate project manager + application.
- If you are interested in contributing code, do not feel any need to make it cross platform. - Just code it for your platform and I'll either reimplement for the other platform or ensure - that there is no effect on the other platform. + If you are interested in contributing code, do not feel any need to make it cross + platform. + Just code it for your platform and I'll either reimplement for the other platform or + ensure that there is no effect on the other platform.