API Cleanup Ideas

Notes for Extensibility API simplification research story.

Commands, Menus, Key bindings

Documents & Editors

• Proxy objects ("CurrentDocument," "ActiveEditor," etc.) that you can attach listeners to once, instead of writing boilerplate code to attach & detach listeners as the current/active Document/Editor changes.
• Events for idle document-change processing (either a debounced delay after typing pauses, or on open/save/refresh as linting works today). Useful for Find in Files results updating, real-time linting, possibly some live development functionality, etc.

ProjectManager & file structure

UI: toolbars, icons, panels, etc.

Inline editors

Language extensibility

(See also Language Extensibility umbrella user story)

Quick Open search

Find, Replace, Find in Files