Feature requests: [Sticky] Compilation of Feature Requests

Just to keep things tidy and easy for everyone to refer to, I’ve compiled a list of requested features. Features with attached version numbers denote that the feature will likely be released at that version. This information has been provided by martincohen and comes from their Intype development roadmap. Features in italics have been acknowledged and appears in the current Features list or in the linked page. Some upcoming planned features are mentioned there as well, so please take a look before requesting. ;)

In addition, if a requested feature that was previously listed here is gone from the list, it means that it will be coming out in an upcoming release. So please check the posts linked to under “Removal History“.

A. Interface
B. Editing
C. Selection/Navigation/Search
D. Customization
E. Bundles
F. Snippets
G. Miscellaneous

Thanks to Martin for adding in the version numbers from the roadmap! :)

Last updated: August 15th, 2007 2:25AM GMT

B. Editing

1. Autocomplete
2. Automatic brace/parenthesis closing
3. Brace/parentheses block highlight
4. Code commenting shortcuts (in 0.3.x)
5. Code folding (Acknowledgement ) (in 0.2.4)
6. Column/block editing
7. Conversion to ASCII
8. Drag/drop editing
9. Document structure checker
10. Enhanced text manipulation (shortcuts in 0.2.1)
11. File templates (in 0.4.x)
12. Indentation guides
13. Multiedit
14. Remove trailing whitespace
15. Show matching bracket/parenthesis and tags
16. Spellchecker
17. Tab->space conversion (in 0.2.5)

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D. Customization

1. Default file type
2. Key mapping (in 0.2.1)
3. Menu/status bars customization
4. Smaller font size & letter spacing step sizes
5. Theme editor (after 0.6.x)

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F. Snippets

1. Autocompletion/visual feedback for snippet triggers
2. Bundle/Snippets editor (Acknowledgement )
3. Case insensitive snippet activation
4. Cursor moved to end point when leaving snippet mode
5. Paste as snippet
6. Regex snippet matching (Acknowledgement )
7. Snippet nesting
8. Snippet choice selection with Tab key
9. Sorting and filtering of snippet matches

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Thanks for managing this sorted feature requests list. It’s great to have them all together nice in one place.

Thank you very much. This really helps.

thats in the alpha release discussion

http://intypedocs.wikispaces.com/.
No longer there.
—Tstrokes

tstrokes:
Thanks for the effort, but we are preparing our own wiki allready and I think that having two sources of docs is not such good idea. I hope that our wiki will be available soon enough, so it can be filled with usefull information.

yarden: adding-saving app position and size

Added under Interface (or it could be under Customization as well.. heh)

Haha, I think I’ll put something like: “Remember everything from last program exit” :P

Vlad: idyllrain: aplease, make this feature switchable. ;) I don’t like when my Notepad++ remembers all opened files.

Haha, you are mistaken. I’m not one of the devs :P I just help compile all the feature requests into one thread to make it easier to refer to :P

p/s I don’t like it when Ultraedit remembers all my opened files too… haha… although I suppose somewhere in there is an option to toggle it off.

Hi guys, I’ve added some version info to features that we are sure that will be implemented. Some numbers may change, this is from current roadmap.

Thanks a lot, that clarified things.

Is there anything we users can do to help with development? Besides donating. Hmm, come to think of it, you should get a PayPal account or something, I don’t see a “Donate” button anywhere…

I notice you didn’t set a version number on drag & drop editing. It is planned though, right?

Ad Drag&Drop: Almost all features in the list are in plan. Some of them have very low priority and are therefore not planned directly into specific version.

Ad Autopairing: I never saw this feature implement in a good way. It always does something I don’t want to. Providing another parser thread that will only balance paired characters is a big overhead, but this is planned for prototyping.

So I would assume that 1.0 will be the first non-free version of InType. Assuming that for a moment, why is the Project Manager slated for 1.2? Even if it were a basic project manager, it seems like that is something that should be high priority for inclusion in the 1.0 release. I can honestly say that the lack of a project manager (and particularly, intuitive remote file access via FTP or SFTP/SCP) in 1.0 will be a show-stopper for me. I would have to wait until that's included before I could consider using InType as a full replacement for my current editor (UltraEdit, although that's lacking in some respects too).

Please consider this constructive criticism. It's in no way meant to belittle the GREAT work so far. But pushing the Project Manager beyond 1.0 strikes me as a bad idea.

Many Python programmers like to remove any extra whitespace from the ends of lines when saving a file.
Other features/settings useful for Python programmers are here (this link refers to the Vim text editor).

Mmm… maybe some obsure programming language that uses multiline strings containing whitespace needs em to make colored bars! Haha…

I want these two to be added to the list:

• Being able to double-click (selecting a word) and continue dragging (with the second click) to select more words.
• Automatic pairing of brackets (well, any character basically… plus the ability to specify those characters in a config file)...

martincohen: Ad Autopairing: I never saw this feature implement in a good way. It always does something I don’t want to. Providing another parser thread that will only balance paired characters is a big overhead, but this is planned for prototyping.

I would love it if you could elaborate on your little mini-rant there. I would have some suggestions for how this feature could work I guess, if I would just sit down and think about it. I think it could work in a pretty unobtrusive way if designed right…

Btw, the CSS for quotes in the forums here is a little weird. Could you change it to blockquote > p { margin: 0; } ?

Frederick: I would have some suggestions for how this feature could work I guess, if I would just sit down and think about it. I think it could work in a pretty unobtrusive way if designed right…

#Develop’s autopairing automatically inserts an ending brace character after you type the beginning brace and press the Return/Enter key. The inserted brace character is indented at the same level of the first brace. It’s pretty nice.

Btw, added the two to the list.

Yeah, that’s exactly the way Textmate does it too. I suggested that it be done the Textmate way… But I think it should also maybe sense if there’s an ending or starting bracket there already. Like if I have ); and type “(” at the beginning of the line, it shouldn’t become ()); it should simply be (); and the same with an opening bracket…

Code Folding and the File/Project manager have been suggested here is more info:
File/Project manager
Code Folding

http://intype.info/forums/discussion/93/

Now that is so cool! What editor is that?