[Beaver-devel] About unimplemented features and plugins

[Higor Eurípedes]

Hi,

I saw Double's message about plugins and i wanted to give my opinion about it.

I believe that implementing some 'must-have' features is more
important now than developping
plugins (it doesnt mean that the plugin api should be ignored).

Here are my suggestions (some features bellow are in the TODO file already).

Features for the project:

 - Bug tracking system (bugzilla?)

Features that should be implemented int he editor:

 - Documentation
 - Change tab size
 - Allow drag-and-drop to main window
 - Allow changing of highlight colors
 - Move HOME to start of text, not line (shouldnt be hard, just some
work with GtkTextIter)
 - Use "autohell" tools and gettext
 - Highlight braces/parens too
 - Add 80th char column marker
 - Find prev/next option (gtk_text_iter_*_search() for common text and
a better implementation of
   regex search/replace function)
 - Add side and bottom panels (notebooks) for plugins (they are hidden
and empty by default,
   plugins will self add to the panels on load depending on the configuration)
 - "hello world" like plugin, so users will be able to understand a
bit about how beaver's plugin
    system works.

Features that should be implemented as plugins (doesnt mean it should
be implemented NOW):

 - The plugin Double was talking about.
 - Function list or Code browser (ctags ?)
 - Integrated terminal (VTE ?)
 - File browser
 - "Open in browser" menu option
 - Compiling options (make all or make clean on the current file directory)
 - Color selection button

-- 
Higor Euripedes (enygmata)