Project Roadmap

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

2.2.5

• faster syntax scanning after small changes to the text
• fix for a bug in search and replace where nothing was replaced
• much faster file pane with less memory usage, with various fixes and new features such as filenames from documents that are opened shown in bold
• storing the active document and active line numbers in projects
• much better javascript syntax highlighting and auto-completion, and adding jquery
• syntax highlighting and auto-completion improvements for most supported languages
• html code in php now defaults to html5
• add appdata file
• make the html plugin aware if the current syntax is html, html5 or xhtml
• improve smart indenting
• improve indenting in auto-completion code
• replace jsmin with a version with a true open source licence
• improve wrap text on right margin
• fix split lines feature
• fix several hard-to-reproduce crashes
• better recovery after a kill or crash
• improve paste special
• improve bookmark functionality
• OSX Native input methods now are supported (Japanese, Chinese, etc.)
• Mac Retina displays are now supported.
• OSX system hotkeys are working.
• OSX Widget bindings on MacOSX are moved to Cmd+C|V|X|A and working
• OSX opening files from the finder is now supported
• OSX Mavericks support

2.2.6

• fix critical bug (segfault) in filebrowser that could be triggered if the root was set as basedir
• enable development define only if compiled from svn, not if compiled from tarball
• various language file improvements, most of them in C, Javascript and CSS
• fix a specific CSS-in-HTML-tag highlighting issue
• Arabic translation added, Polish and Chinese translation updated
• fix a corner case for a new document from a template that does not exist
• the "open" submenu now opens SVG files from the filebrowser instead of inserting an image tag
• fix segfault in filter code if the command does not exist
• update cssmin and jsbeatify
• fix a syntax scanning issue when replacing large chunks of text
• fix the "Report bug" link
• add a new "conditional" option to the language file that makes re-using certain blocks of language files easier
• imporove error reporting in outputbox
• OSX: fix filebrowser icons
• OSX: fix "open file" dialog size
• Windows: open in running process is finally supported on windows

2.2.7

• fix rare crashes in the autocompletion, the filebrowser, the htmlbar plugin preferences, and in file-load-cancel
• fix a rare case of broken syntax highlighting after multiple search/replace actions
• better error/warning output when parsing language files
• fix javascript regex syntax highlighting
• improve loading of files with corrupt encoding (partially loading into read-only file)
• improve project loading over sftp
• HTML5 tags now supported in Generic HTML, PHP, CFML, etc.
• fix UTF-16 loading/saving
• improved css, html and pascal/delphi language file
• improve autocompletion for html tags
• OSX: changed the keys for tab switching such that they no longer confict with some keyboard layouts
• OSX: improve behavior at shutdown
• improve upload/download to ignore backup files
• fix number of results in search and replace on files on disk
• better fallback when loading files with a corrupt encoding
• improve home/end keys on wrapped text

beyond 2.2.7

• make language options translatable
• better error/warning output when parsing language files
• remove synchronous calls from blocking code-paths in the filebrowser code
• implement some sort of highlighting color theme so bluefish is also usable on dark themes without changing each and every color manually
• better mimetype / syntax linking GUI, like the GUI proposed for win32
• margin settings for printing
• allow folding blocks in the print output

• show color, when mouse over an color code (#000000)
• option for snippet to open the color dialog
• show search results in a list at left side
• create a feature to change a tag to a different tag, and obviously also change the corresponding end-tag to that new value

beyond our planning horizon

• clipboard history
• undo redo browser

some ideas:

• completion of words in current document
• storing undo/redo information in the project file