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A list of desired features
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Vague musings:
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- FriBidi support?
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- Make matching bracket searches sophisticated enough to skip over
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brackets inside comments?
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- Allow indentation of marked text by spaces as well as tabs?
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- Allow indentation to add just enough columns to reach the nearest
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multiple of tabsize, rather than always adding tabsize columns?
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- Allow conversion between different character sets. Maybe use glib's
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iconv() if the system's iconv() is inadequate, since we already use
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glib's vsnprintf() if the system lacks vsnprintf()?
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- Allow setting marks (saved positions, not to be confused with the mark
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set via Ctrl-^) at various lines and/or columns in the buffer, and
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allow movement between them with a single keystroke?
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- Allow searching for and replacing newlines?
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See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47053.
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- New regression framework built on expect?
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- Add the ability to move to different lines of the screen with a single
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keystroke, e.g. M-` (M-~) to go to the top line, M-& (M-7) to go to
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the center line, and M-' (M-") to go to the last line?
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Somewhat urgent:
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- Allow text searches in the help viewer.
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See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28994.
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- Detect when text is being pasted, so that we can handle it faster.
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See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40060.
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- Allow color syntaxes to apply to more than just color, so that we can
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e.g. specify a different alternate spell checker depending on which
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file type we have open.
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- Allow piping marked text to an external command and replacing it with
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the command's output -- that is: generalize the spell-check flow.
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See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28993.
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For version 2.4:
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- Handle window resizes better. After we've resized, we should stay
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wherever we were before we resized, as Pico does. [DONE]
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- Allow even better file-type detection than we have currently, e.g.
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through libmagic. [DONE]
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- Compatibility with vim status files to let other editors know we're
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in a file. [DONE]
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For version 2.2:
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- Rebindable keys? [DONE]
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- Undo/Redo keys (M-U and M-E)? [DONE]
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- Fix problems with color syntaxes highlighting lines too aggressively. [DONE]
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- Allow nano to work like a pager (reading from stdin). [DONE]
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- Allow color syntaxes to be selected based on more than just filename
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extension. [DONE]
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- Allow soft wrapping as well as hard wrapping? [DONE]
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For version 2.0:
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- UTF-8 support. [DONE]
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- Support for paragraph searches. [DONE]
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- Support for justifying the entire file at once. [DONE]
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- Support for filename searches in the file browser. [DONE]
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- Keystroke to implement "Add next sequence as raw" like vi's ^V. [DONE]
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- Spell check selected text only. [DONE]
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- Make "To Line" (^W^T) and "Read from Command" (^R^X) reenter their
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parent menu when their keystroke is entered a second time (^W^T^T and
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(^R^X^X) (requires figuring out when to keep cursor position and when
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not to). [DONE]
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- Fix resetstatuspos global which we shouldn't have. [DONE]
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For version 1.2:
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- Single-line scroll up/down? [DONE]
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- Color syntax highlighting? (Certainly seems like there's a demand for
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it.) [DONE]
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- .nanorc [DONE]
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- Backup making (filename~)? [DONE]
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- Search/replace string history. [DONE]
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- Implement Pico's -j and -g flags, as they are pretty easy to do. [DONE]
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- Make mouse support work with clicking on the shortcuts (-m). [DONE]
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- Implement -o (chroot of sorts). [DONE]
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- Allow -r to take a negative argument, meaning right margin instead of
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left (allows resizing that way), formerly -W arg. [DONE]
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For version 1.0:
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- Implement Spelling. [DONE]
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- Implement Help. [DONE]
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- Internationalization [In progress, translators welcome!]
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- Allow nano to be resized in X. [DONE]
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- On PageUp/Down, put the cursor on the first line (like Pico), not the
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center line. [DONE]
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- Rewrite edit_refresh, if at all possible. [DONE]
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- Implement justify function. [DONE]
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- Cut to end of line. [DONE]
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- Built-in speller command. [DONE]
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- Better statusbar interaction (scrolling, tab completion). [DONE]
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- Unjustify command (^U after ^J). [DONE]
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- Username completion (~user). [DONE]
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