A list of desired features -------------------------- Somewhat urgent: - Make undo/redo work also for justifying. - Detect when text is being pasted, so that we can handle it faster. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40060. - Allow color syntaxes to apply to more than just color, so that we can e.g. specify a different alternate spell checker depending on which file type we have open. - Allow piping marked text to an external command and replacing it with the command's output -- that is: generalize the spell-check flow. See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28993. Vague musings: - Add support for right-to-left text (RTL), through FriBidi? - Allow setting marks (saved positions, not to be confused with the mark set via Ctrl-^) at various lines and/or columns in the buffer, and allow movement between them with a single keystroke? - Make matching bracket searches sophisticated enough to skip over brackets inside comments? For version 2.9: - Make undo/redo work also for indenting. [DONE] - Allow to record and replay a macro: a stored series of keystrokes. [DONE] For version 2.8: - Allow text searches in the help viewer. [DONE] For version 2.4: - Handle window resizes better. After we've resized, we should stay wherever we were before we resized, as Pico does. [DONE] - Allow even better file-type detection than we have currently, e.g. through libmagic. [DONE] - Compatibility with vim status files to let other editors know we're in a file. [DONE] For version 2.2: - Rebindable keys? [DONE] - Undo/Redo keys (M-U and M-E)? [DONE] - Fix problems with color syntaxes highlighting lines too aggressively. [DONE] - Allow nano to work like a pager (reading from stdin). [DONE] - Select a color syntax based on more than just the filename extension. [DONE] - Allow soft wrapping as well as hard wrapping? [DONE] For version 2.0: - UTF-8 support. [DONE] - Support for paragraph searches. [DONE] - Support for justifying the entire file at once. [DONE] - Support for filename searches in the file browser. [DONE] - Keystroke to implement "Add next sequence as raw" like vi's ^V. [DONE] - Spell check selected text only. [DONE] - Make "To Line" (^W^T) and "Read from Command" (^R^X) reenter their parent menu when their keystroke is entered a second time (^W^T^T and (^R^X^X) (requires figuring out when to keep cursor position and when not to). [DONE] - Fix resetstatuspos global which we shouldn't have. [DONE] For version 1.2: - Single-line scroll up/down? [DONE] - Color syntax highlighting? (There seems to be a demand for it.) [DONE] - Support for a .nanorc file. [DONE] - Backup making (filename~)? [DONE] - Search/replace string history. [DONE] - Implement Pico's -j and -g flags, as they are pretty easy to do. [DONE] - Make mouse support work with clicking on the shortcuts (-m). [DONE] - Implement -o (--operatingdir, a chroot of sorts). [DONE] - Allow -r to take a negative argument, meaning right margin instead of left (allows resizing that way), formerly -W arg. [DONE] For version 1.0: - Implement Spelling. [DONE] - Implement Help. [DONE] - Internationalization [In progress, translators welcome!] - Allow nano to be resized in X. [DONE] - On PageUp/Down, put the cursor on the first line (like Pico), not the center line. [DONE] - Implement justify function. [DONE] - Cut to end of line. [DONE] - Built-in speller command. [DONE] - Better statusbar interaction (scrolling, tab completion). [DONE] - Unjustify command (^U after ^J). [DONE] - Username completion (~user). [DONE]