tasks.todo.md

0.2.8 (Mouse support) { To allow the mouse cursor to move the editor cursor & select text }

• Mouse selection support*
  • Read mouse events
  • Move the cursor when clicking with mouse
  • Add selection mode to document
  • Allow text selection with the mouse cursor
  • Allow for copy, cut and paste
• Add option to hide parts of the editor (e.g. status line, tab line)
• Deleting left bracket removes other bracket
• Add help menu to view keybindings*
  • Add API to display boxes over existing text
  • Show overlay
  • Hide overlay
  • Handle resizes
• Backup
  • Add configuration options
  • Backup to specific folder somewhere
• Look to add support for background colors in status and tab line
• Don't load entire file into memory*
  • Research
  • Implement
• Allow full transparency of editing components
• Allow file type argument to be passed
• Cursor in status line
• Shift keys
• Adding support for many popular languages
  • JSON* (easy)
  • HTML* (easy)
  • CSS* (easy)
  • Markdown (easy)
  • SQL (easy)
  • x86 Assembly (easy)
  • PHP* (medium)
  • Java (medium)
  • TypeScript (medium)
  • Swift (medium)
  • Groovy (medium)
  • Lua (medium)
  • Julia (medium)
  • Elixr (medium)
  • F# (medium)
  • Lisp (medium)
  • Elm (medium)
  • Vim Script (medium)
  • Scala (medium)
  • C# (medium)
  • R (medium)
  • Go (medium)
  • Dart (medium)
  • Kotlin (medium)
  • D lang (medium)
  • Haskell (medium)
  • C++ (hard)

0.3.0 (IDE level features) { Allow for IDE level features to smooth out development experience }

• Auto indentation
  • Detect when to auto indent
    • Look for the tabs above vs below
  • Find the amount of tabs needed
  • Insert tabs there
• Prettier
  • Find a way to access the prettier API
  • Add oxa command
  • Add a confirmation
• Linting
  • Read output from cargo's JSON
  • Display issues in the command line
  • highlight different colors for errors and warnings
  • Add support for Pylint readings

0.3.1 (IDE level features #2) { More IDE level features }

• Auto brackets
  • Automatically insert brackets on opening pair
    • <
    • (
    • [
    • {
    • "
    • '
    • `
    • |
  • Move them around when pressing enter

0.3.2 (IDE level features #3) { Even more IDE features }

• Auto complete*
  • Get information from racer and display it in a menu
  • Add configuration entries for the autocomplete
  • Add support for file autocomplete too

0.3.3 (Navigation) { To help with navigating and managing your project from within the editor }

• File tree
  • Allow the document to be shifted up a bit
  • Render random text to the left of the document
  • List directory
  • Add cursor focus variable
  • Add mutable flags
  • Allow opening of files
  • Allow collapse and expand of files
  • Add sorting
  • Add file operations
    • New directory
    • New file
    • Delete directory
    • Delete file
    • Move file
    • Copy file

0.3.4 (Start up experience improvements) { Add a help menu and start menu and session saver }

• Start page
  • Store recently used documents
  • List them out
• Add ability to save sessions and load them from cli and start page
• Add detailed help menu / document / mode

Further ideas { Further fun ideas to look at }

• Discord rich presence
• Todo lists
• Automatically closing status line
• File encryption and decryption
• Nice, personal greeting
• Live HTML editor
• HTML expansion like emmet
• Split editors
• Terminal integration
• Theme builder
• Cheatsheet downloader
• Stack overflow searcher
• Documentation viewer
• Pomodoro timer for work / rest balance
• Typing speed tests / statistics
• Automated tests
• Package manager
• Theme changing depending on time of day
• Easter eggs

0.1.1

• Go to the next line at end of line
• Go to the previous line at start of line
• Solve unicode width issues
  • Fix unicode cursor issues
  • Add Home / End / PageUp / PageDown support
  • Fix offset up/down issues
  • Fix dodgy up/down unicode issues
• Insertion of characters
• Deletion of characters
  • Deletion in middle of line
  • Deletion at start of line
  • Deletion at end of line
• The enter key
  • Enter at the start of a line
  • Enter at the end of a line
  • Enter in the middle of a line
• Render tabs (4 spaces)
• Save
• Save as
• Dirty files
• Quit confirmation
• Improve status bar
  • File identification
  • Cursor position
  • File name
  • File edited
  • Current line
• Revamp theme
• Thorough commenting
• Privatisation

0.2.0

• Line numbers
• Open document
• New document
• Search feature
  • Searching on the same line as the cursor
    • Backwards
    • Forwards
  • Searching forward by default
  • Scroll offset with search
    • Ensure the initial offset is saved
    • Move the offset

0.2.1 (Undo & Redo)

• Undo / Redo
  • Undo
    • Add event executor
  • Set up EventStack
    • Read Insertion
    • Read Deletion
    • Add reverse event lookup
    • Read NewLine
      • End of line
      • Start of line
      • Middle of line
    • Support for offsets
    • Read DeleteLine
      • Middle of line
      • Start of line
  • Redo
    • Set up seperate redo stack
    • Clear redo stack on change
    • Link up operations
  • Set up smart undoing / redoing to undo by groups of common events
  • Commit changes after inactivity period
  • Refactor

0.2.2 (Input bug solving)

• Fix clipboard bug

0.2.3 (Interface improvements)

• CLAP cli
  • Update documentation
• Config file
  • Add a default config path
  • Allow a config argument
  • Add hardcoded backup config file
  • Read a config file and populate values
  • Have a few example config files
  • Left line number padding
• Change default theme
• Updated logo
• Performance optimizations
• No unwrap calls to reduce runtime errors
• Proper status line and welcome message wrapping
• Added left line number padding
• Improved search command to show results in the middle of screen
• Replace
  • Fix X offset jumping
  • Create replace all command
  • Create replace some command
  • Allow Regex expressions to be used?

0.2.4 (Syntax highlighting)

• Add support for reading XDG config variable
• Fix blank file runtime error
• Use RON format instead
• Syntax Highlighting
  • Add basic Rust syntax
  • Create a theme and regex definitions
  • Implement basic colourization
  • Fix overlapping tokens
  • Fix fallout with unicode and trimming
    • Trimming start
    • Unicode
    • Trimming end
  • Finish Rust highlighting
  • Add syntax to config file
  • Allow for file type specific syntax highlighting
  • Optimize
  • Allow for multiline syntax highlighting
  • Add Python
  • Add Javascript
  • Add C
  • Add Ruby
  • Add Crystal

0.2.5 (Multitasking) { Manage multiple buffers in one instance }

• Tabs
  • Allow holding several documents
  • Set up current doc variable
  • Rewrite editor to use documents from current doc
  • Allow editor to move between different documents
  • Add tab line
  • Ctrl + Q closes document rather than editor
  • Make current tab bold
  • Remove open confirmation
• Update hardcoded config file
• Balance load between editor and document files
  • Move variables
  • Move methods around
• Save all
  • Add dirty indicator to tab
  • Write function
  • Set up keybinding
• Dynamic tab offset

0.2.6 (Macros) { Allow for more keybindings and operations }

• Fix file tab issue (27th)
• Fix (0, 0) deletion issues
• Macro system
  • Allow special command mode
  • Create Oxa parser (25th)
  • Create unified event executor (2nd)
    • Document functions
    • Cursor functions
    • Mass edit functions
    • Tab functions
    • Insertion function
    • Allow repeated Ox commands
    • Backspace functions
    • Return functions
    • Storage functions
    • Allow multiple event execution
    • Allow undo via reverse execution
      • Split up events as much as possible
      • Write the reverses for them
      • Redo
      • Fix committing issues
    • Clippy
    • Thorough Testing
  • Write documentation for Ox (3rd)
  • Have a few example macros (3rd)
    • Goto line number
    • Delete line
    • Move cursor
    • Move line
    • Move forward a word
    • Move backward a word
  • Allow binding of macros to some keys (4th)
• Distribution
  • Rpm
  • Deb
  • Homebrew
• Add more configuration options in the config file (6th)
  • Multiple themes
    • Read from config file
    • Allow switching via command
  • Status line format
    • Form structure for information
    • Allow config file reading
    • Apply it
  • Tab line format
    • Add to configuration file
    • Apply it
  • Predefined macros
    • Create it in config file
    • Read and allow execution
  • Update wiki

0.2.7 (Small patches) { Small tweaks and large rewrites to make Ox more comfy }

• Rewrite using crossterm for windows support and efficiency*
• Undoing
  • Undoing to origin makes file not dirty
• CLI
  • Allow jump to lines*
• Bug Fixing
  • Fix line deletion runtime error
  • Fix delete line issue
  • Stop hiding welcome screen on resize
  • Fix file name issue
  • Fix line 0 deletion errors
  • Add log file
  • Fix unicode bug
  • Fix potential tab issues
  • Fix file hanging*
  • Fix windows linebreak issue*
  • Fix resize bugs
• Searching
  • Rewrite replace all command
  • Fix dodgy search positions
  • Rewrite replace command
• Themes
  • Small line specific retokenization for performance
  • 16 bit colour fallback*
  • Allow changing of colours of warning, info and error messages in config file
  • Line number background
  • Transparent background
  • Improved language syntax highlighting support
  • Highlight search and replace messages
  • Live / Command for reloading of the config file
• Oxa
  • Delete word
• General Editing
  • File overwrite prevention
  • Fix hardcoded values (easy)
  • Goto only if not on screen (easy)
  • Add support for cursor line wrapping* (easy)
  • Better file save error messages (easy)
  • Save as sudo / read only files* (medium)
  • More keybindings (hard)
• Formatting
• Update built in config file