Future Planning

[richrd]

To push Suplemon to the next level some core refactoring is needed.

The main goals are:

• Support regions (selections) instead of just cursors. This will require refactoring all the multi cursor editing code.
• Better event system. Now we have input events and global events which might contain input events. This should be done in a smarter way.
• Create a better more consistent commands implementation to allow arguments for commands. Also refactor addon modules to behave inline with built in commands.
• Replace files with views in the main App class.
• Support splitting the screen into multiple views horizontally and vertically. This should allow for sidebars too (e.g. for a project or file tree, or in editor help)
• Refactor App class into smaller components (Refactor App class into smaller components #55)
• Try to get some tests implemented (not so straight forward, see Testing discussion/braindump #100)
• Autocomplete: Add keywords for known languages and use them when editing a file in a specific language.
• Mouse support for making selections if possible.
• Other things that I didn't think of yet...

Possible enhancements:

• Multi line promts in favour of Can't find newlines (\n) when regex find isn't enabled #160
• Code folding
• A menu at the top that can be navigated to find and use all Suplemon features.

Let me know of any ideas and feedback you might have for implementing these.

[MrDowntempo]

Will the 'support regions' portion of this refactoring make code folding possible? That seems like a big important step

[richrd]

It doesn't refer to exactly that but code folding would sure be nice to have! It's also something worth taking into account when doing this refactor so thanks for mentioning it. I haven't got any plans for code folding yet but I'll keep it in mind.

[indolering]

Macros?