Project Roadmap

The project roadmap outlines the future goals and milestones of the bluefish project.

Stable branch (2.2.*)

2.2.3

Already done:

• fix file recovery on window
• fix broken shortcut for shift S on OSX
• remove deprecated menu items for html entities, obsoleted by the character map plugin
• improve cursor positioning when using filters
• add control+ control- accelerators for text zoom
• add php code sniffer outputbox action to the defaults
• added html5 columns dialog
• some code cleanups
• hide the bookmarks margin if there are no bookmarks
• make the color of selected text configurable
• more flexible autocomplete options in the language file
• add some options to filters/commands/outputbox to enable/disable entries, and to set if an entry is a bluefish default (and can be updated in the next bf release) or user defined / modified
• removed fifo options for external commands, filters and the outputbox, replaced by temporary files
• fix several bugs in code folding
• make folding for various brackets optional in all language files
• add a feature to fold only specific type of blocks (for example only comments)
• add a highlight block around the cursor, and make the cursor size customizable
• add a 'move selection up/down' feature bound to ctrl+up and ctrl+down
• add a select block feature by dragging in the margin (over the line numbers)
• fix the thumbnail dialog and thumbnail creation
• fix spell checking while typing
• fix search result positions after changes in the text
• improve the search history and search gui
• restructured parts of the preferences GUI
• user supplied arguments in the filters / commands / outputbox
• not only 'edit color' but also 'insert color'
• make the documentroot in the filebrowser visible with it's own icon

Work in progress:

• lorem ipsum generator

To be done, or to be postponed:

• make attributes in the language file a seperate tag so it becomes more flexible

• a feature to open all included files ..?
• color scheme dialog that detects all colors in a file and shows them in a single dialog
• printing

beyond 2.2.next

• make the default snippets translatable
• make the language-syntax option descriptions translatable
• make the language-syntax file format more flexible so various possibilities can be made option such that you don't have to edit the language files

New ideas beyond the stable branch

• clipboard history
• undo redo browser
• storing undo/redo information in the project file