[29-jan-2002] The editor is at version 0.2 and amounts more than 40'000 lines of code. It is functional and stable enough for everyday use on Windows and Linux text console.
-- No limit by design for the file size. Native support for Windows, Unix and
Macintosh end-of-line markers. Option to convert among different platform text
files.
-- Implements a standard set of block operations: mark, clipboard transfer,
column blocks, indent/unindent, and sort.
-- Unlimited undo-redo of the operations.
-- Crash recovery -- periodically your unsaved edits are incrementally stored in a temporary recovery file.
-- Search and Replace with Perl regular expressions and patterns.
-- Search in files.
-- Bookmarks.
-- Pull-down menu system.
-- GNU Info-style hyper text browser with on-line and context sensitive help.
-- A full fledged calculator is included. Suitable for programmers. Includes
an extensive set of floating point operations.
As goals for mid to long term future can be outlined: unicode files, autonomous X window operation, replace in files (with revert), design of plug-ins interface and developing plug-ins for different languages (syntax highlithing at the beginning), heuristic navigation history (Alt+left/right to navigate like browser stack), to redesign the display block to support multi-frame non-modal split, diff, plug-ins for version control systems (CVS and ClearCase), spell-check (general or language specific, for example limit the check to comments in .c file or skip tags in .html file).
As very long term goals: extensive language scanning to provide navigation within function declaration, structure declarations, function parameters tips, variables declaration and reference lists.