Feature requests: Comments Suggestions and Bug

Hi,

I came across Intype about 2 weeks ago and have been very impressed with it so far. The quality is excelent and its actually a pleasure to use unlike most text editors on windows. I do have a few comments, suggestions and a bug I would like to air though….

1. The project list does not scroll when you move the mouse over it and scroll the wheel. You first have to click in the tree and then scroll the mouse wheel.
2. Can there be an option to configure which file extensions open in what language. E.g. at the moment .rb files open in Ruby, but I am working on a Ruby on Rails project so they should open in the Ruby on Rails language option. Same would go for .html.erb and .xml.erb. Being able to choose and configure the extensions would give the best option for the user.
3. The tab spacing setting is not saved when you open a new document. If i am editing a document with Spaces (2) and then open a new document it defaults back to Tabs (4) and I have to manually select Spaces (2) again. If the file already uses 2 spaces for tabs it will detect this and work fine, but not for new files. Could there be an option to set what to default to, or even just remember the last selection?
4. It would be nice to be able to double click next to the tabs, or anywhere in the tab bar, to create a new document.
5. Could search be integrated into the bottom of the window like Firefox? Maybe just for quick search within this document and have the main search dialog for searching in all files in the project.
6. Double clicking on the Line number in the status bar could bring up the “Go to Line” dialog as a shortcut.
7. Drag and drop re-ordering of tabs would be nice. Its sometimes useful to group documents together when you are working on them.
8. When you use column editing of characters Alt+Select the side of the text area goes green to show what has changed, could this be extended to show what has changed compared to the saved version of the file? Similar to how VS.NET indicates changes.
9. Is code collapsing planned at any point, such as collapsing methods, multi line comments, html elements, etc?

This last one is quite minor, but it would be nice for the sake of completeness and OS integration :)

1. Could the menu items and the project tree take on the standard windows controls look and feel. In Vista the tree uses arrows and no lines to expand branches. And the menus look a little out of place on Vista.

Theyre just some comments and suggestions anyway but I would like your feedback and keep up the great work! I cant wait for the next release :)

David

Thank you very much for your suggestions. Here are our answers:

1. Mouse wheel in project window. Being investigated.
2. File extension mapping. The configuration is automatic. By selecting an language, it automatically maps to the current extension and all further files with that extension are set for the mapped language.
3. Indentation settings. Actually tabs, encoding and line-endings are mapped to documents and are normally detected. For new files, we will provide more support for easier configuration by setting up a templates.
4. Double-click on tabs control. Double-click planned to time when templates are introduced. Currently you can only use Ctrl+N, or right-click and select “New”. Discussed.
5. Firefox-like search. Already discussed many times. Firefox-like quick search is planned and will override standard Ctrl+F shortcut. Ctrl+H (replace) will be still the same dialog as you can see now.
6. Double-clicking on line number opens Ctrl+G. We know, we have this in our todo (already discussed)
7. Reordering tabs. Also in the todo (already discussed), but more complex.
8. Change detector instead of mode highlight. I don’t see any income in this feature, and in the contrary :), I see a lot of income of how it is implemented right now.
9. Code-collapsing. Planned, discussed.
10. Vista support. Not properly tested on Vista, yet. Release 0.3.5 uses more of standard renderers for the menu (and a new UI layer). The tree is pretty standard, but due to lack of testing I suppose MS had changed something. Can you provide us with some screenshots?

I’m sorry, I didn’t provide any links to thread with appropriate discussions for some points, but I’m sure that guys are using the same keywords as you do, so the search may help.