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

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
fix segfault in filebrowser that could be triggered by invalid URL's
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

make language options translatable
improve loading of files with corrupt encoding (partially loading into read-only file)
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

some ideas: