Overall themes
- improve navigation support
- reduce gestures
- smarter editing
- improve presentation of editing and browsing related information
- consolidate preference handling
- consolidate code
Navigation and interaction
Planned items
folding
- allow user controlled folding
structures
- vertical ruler column as
folding control
- [>3.0] editor view splitting
- regex in Find/Replace dialog
(available, needs 1.4. runtime)
- enable reducing the number of
gestures required to insert a completion proposal and to continue typing
- e.g., auto activate content
assist if completion trigger is also an auto activation trigger
- interactive status bar
- change overwrite mode on
double click
- change raw/smart mode on
double click (see smart typing section)
- [>3.0] change read/only flag on double click
- provide
actions to show/hide vertical ruler columns, overview ruler, etc. that
can be bound to accelerators
Investigation items
- navigation control
- Previous element button,
Selector to choose the element type, Next element button
- navigation hover listing
all possible navigation actions as hyper links
- content assist like lightweight
dialog approach listing all possible navigation actions
- [>3.0] action hovers
- [>3.0] support gestures
Information presentation
- generalize hover concept to
show context information of elements and allow for configurable presentation
- control as hover or view
part
- content as text, list, or
tree
- change bar vertical ruler column
- shows difference to a selected
revision/snapshot/saved state
- ruler hover shows original
content
- context menu offers action
to revert the current difference to the original content
- background highlighting of text
to complement squiggles
- [>3.0] synchronize editor dirty bit and undo manager state
Typing
Planned items
- smart insert new line before/after
cursor line
- duplicate selection/line
- [>3.0] transpose lines/words/characters
- move lines
- copy lines
- change selection to upper/lower
case
- smart Backspace/Delete/yank
line
- synchronize with smart semicolon/brace
- [>3.0] will remove everything inserted by an auto indent strategy
- [>3.0] delete block of empty lines (keep none or one)
- introduce "raw" mode in which
every key stroke is stripped down to its bare meaning
- mode is shown in the status
line
- action with key binding
to toggle mode
- adapt all actions to consider
the mode setting
-
- template support in Default
Text Editor
Investigation items
- [>3.0] investigate macro support (requires command based text infrastructure)
Preference handling
- support default configurations
and preference inheritance
- [>3.0] introduce UI for setting the Undo manager stack size
Misc
- [>3.0] allow to specify line terminator for new files
- editors
and none resources
- open editor on a java.io.file
rather than IFile
- [>3.0] support for more abstract editable source than IFile such as IEditableEditorInput
Architectural and implementation issues
- [>3.0] merge interfaces with their extensions including cleanup of replaced concepts
- integrate command based text
manipulation with IDocument
and related classes
- unify with the undo manager
- find policy of partition
and position updating that fits compound text manipulation commands
- extend partitioning
- handle partitions of length
zero
- [>3.0] introduce nested partitions
- move templates to text infrastructure
layer
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