TODO.md

Re TODO

Specific bugs

• @RE (A) Styling breaks completely when starting a double quote
• @RE (A) Styling broken by double-quote fails to correct itself when quote is deleted.
• @RE (B) Trying to open file in non-existent directory fails.
• @RE (B) Inserts underline as first character when '#' appears somewhere
• @RE (B) Should auto-indent in markdown lists on line wrap

Conceptual

• Editor should not work on buffers, but on an "adapter" that handles the translation between the view layout and the buffer locations

Basic Usability

• Backwards search
• Better file choose/completion proc
• Mini menu/help buffer w/context. E.g. Start a Macro, see macro shortcuts
• Tab handling (or lack thereof)
• Ability to kill buffers from editor

Filesystem handling

• Only write backup file first time after opening a buffer.
• Consider like emacs to not write backups if source controlled file?
• File locking

Rendering

• Fix issue with assembly output (compiler) -- Is that down down to tabs?
• A "virtual terminal" Ruby class to handle views that does not fill the window and to handle e.g. execution of inferior processes like gdb.

Shared editing

• Add support for locking of files.
• Add support for synchronized editing of files.

Automation

• "Arexx" like port (using Drb?)

Cleanups

• Split out indentation code
• Split out input / character handling

DONE

• DONE Make Yank buffer an actual (shared) buffer * DONE Add support for using a helper, such as i3-msg for multiple views. E.g i3-msg 'split horizontal; exec term e TODO.md'
• DONE Go-to line
• DONE Ensure permissions on the rewritten file are the same as on the old. What is the right way of handling this? (in other words, how about e.g. acls, attribtes - is it right to truncate and rewrite instead? Would prefer atomic replacement from backup/temporary file)
• Verify reasonable saving rules: https://bitworking.org/news/2009/01/text-editor-saving-routines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507064 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781/comments/54 r.https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Saving.html
• DONE MVP: Ability to spawn new instance, with file chooser open in right dir
• DONE Proper auto-indent (handle context above)
• DONE Add option to set working dir
• DONE Search
• **DONE ** Special string class that stores attribute flags or spans, so we can safely change attributes and then minimize ANSI changes