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Benno Schulenberg9eeb1c82016-09-08 12:09:53 +02001A list of desired features
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Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +00003
Benno Schulenberg9eeb1c82016-09-08 12:09:53 +02004Somewhat urgent:
Benno Schulenberg5f359172017-04-02 13:03:21 +02005- Make undo/redo work also for justifying and indenting.
Benno Schulenberg9eeb1c82016-09-08 12:09:53 +02006- Allow text searches in the help viewer.
7 See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28994.
8- Detect when text is being pasted, so that we can handle it faster.
9 See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40060.
Benno Schulenberg5f359172017-04-02 13:03:21 +020010- Allow to define and execute a macro: a stored sequence of keystrokes.
11 See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50314.
David Lawrence Ramsey139bae02006-05-17 13:38:07 +000012- Allow color syntaxes to apply to more than just color, so that we can
13 e.g. specify a different alternate spell checker depending on which
14 file type we have open.
Chris Allegretta55ca1022009-03-09 02:04:40 +000015- Allow piping marked text to an external command and replacing it with
Benno Schulenberg9eeb1c82016-09-08 12:09:53 +020016 the command's output -- that is: generalize the spell-check flow.
17 See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28993.
Chris Allegretta55ca1022009-03-09 02:04:40 +000018
Benno Schulenberg5f359172017-04-02 13:03:21 +020019Vague musings:
20- FriBidi support?
21- Allow setting marks (saved positions, not to be confused with the
22 mark set via Ctrl-^) at various lines and/or columns in the buffer,
23 and allow movement between them with a single keystroke?
24- Make matching bracket searches sophisticated enough to skip over
25 brackets inside comments?
26- Allow indentation of marked text by spaces as well as tabs?
27- Allow indentation to add just enough columns to reach the nearest
28 multiple of tabsize, rather than always adding tabsize columns?
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Benno Schulenberg72b437b2015-05-28 14:56:38 +000030For version 2.4:
31- Handle window resizes better. After we've resized, we should stay
32 wherever we were before we resized, as Pico does. [DONE]
33- Allow even better file-type detection than we have currently, e.g.
34 through libmagic. [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg8d005c82016-02-14 12:17:17 +000035- Compatibility with vim status files to let other editors know we're
36 in a file. [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg72b437b2015-05-28 14:56:38 +000037
Chris Allegretta55ca1022009-03-09 02:04:40 +000038For version 2.2:
39- Rebindable keys? [DONE]
40- Undo/Redo keys (M-U and M-E)? [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020041- Fix problems with color syntaxes highlighting lines too aggressively. [DONE]
42- Allow nano to work like a pager (reading from stdin). [DONE]
Chris Allegretta55ca1022009-03-09 02:04:40 +000043- Allow color syntaxes to be selected based on more than just filename
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020044 extension. [DONE]
Chris Allegretta05417a22009-08-17 07:52:10 +000045- Allow soft wrapping as well as hard wrapping? [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey139bae02006-05-17 13:38:07 +000046
47For version 2.0:
David Lawrence Ramseyd9a4ded2005-04-07 02:45:28 +000048- UTF-8 support. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey5ae684f2004-03-04 23:48:26 +000049- Support for paragraph searches. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey8d3e7f32004-05-13 17:28:03 +000050- Support for justifying the entire file at once. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramseye38b8082006-03-30 07:03:04 +000051- Support for filename searches in the file browser. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey11c83d32005-01-02 21:26:53 +000052- Keystroke to implement "Add next sequence as raw" like vi's ^V. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey40bdb682004-11-03 22:03:41 +000053- Spell check selected text only. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramseye5d8f322004-09-30 22:07:21 +000054- Make "To Line" (^W^T) and "Read from Command" (^R^X) reenter their
Chris Allegretta434d6862003-02-03 04:55:17 +000055 parent menu when their keystroke is entered a second time (^W^T^T and
David Lawrence Ramseye5d8f322004-09-30 22:07:21 +000056 (^R^X^X) (requires figuring out when to keep cursor position and when
57 not to). [DONE]
58- Fix resetstatuspos global which we shouldn't have. [DONE]
Jordi Mallach75d05722002-05-18 21:22:47 +000059
David Lawrence Ramsey70047ee2003-06-14 20:41:34 +000060For version 1.2:
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020061- Single-line scroll up/down? [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg5f359172017-04-02 13:03:21 +020062- Color syntax highlighting? (There seems to be a demand for it.) [DONE]
63- Support for a .nanorc file. [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey70047ee2003-06-14 20:41:34 +000064- Backup making (filename~)? [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020065- Search/replace string history. [DONE]
66- Implement Pico's -j and -g flags, as they are pretty easy to do. [DONE]
67- Make mouse support work with clicking on the shortcuts (-m). [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg5f359172017-04-02 13:03:21 +020068- Implement -o (--operatingdir, a chroot of sorts). [DONE]
David Lawrence Ramsey70047ee2003-06-14 20:41:34 +000069- Allow -r to take a negative argument, meaning right margin instead of
70 left (allows resizing that way), formerly -W arg. [DONE]
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Jordi Mallach75d05722002-05-18 21:22:47 +000072For version 1.0:
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020073- Implement Spelling. [DONE]
74- Implement Help. [DONE]
Chris Allegrettaa2ea1932000-06-06 05:53:49 +000075- Internationalization [In progress, translators welcome!]
76- Allow nano to be resized in X. [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020077- On PageUp/Down, put the cursor on the first line (like Pico), not the
78 center line. [DONE]
Benno Schulenberg97e98492016-05-05 13:00:20 +020079- Implement justify function. [DONE]
80- Cut to end of line. [DONE]
81- Built-in speller command. [DONE]
82- Better statusbar interaction (scrolling, tab completion). [DONE]
83- Unjustify command (^U after ^J). [DONE]
84- Username completion (~user). [DONE]