Project Roadmap

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

1.0 branch (old stable)

Version 1.0.8 ?

• translation updates
• enchant compatibility

2.0 branch (current stable)

development for 2.0.1

| all closed bugreports with milestone 2.0.1

• column indicator (a vertical line at e.g. 80 characters) -> done
• template manager (that support multiple templates, and a project just sets the default one) -> 90% done
• improved spell check (such as add your own words to the dictionary) -> done
• tab/shift-tab can be used to indent/unindent a selected block
• experimental native MAC OSX build with OSX integration -> 50% done
• external commands and filters on windows -> temp files and pipes don't work, the rest mostly works
• improved windows installer for normal and system wide installs -> mostly done, except for upgrading the current installer
• remove libpcre dependency -> done

development for 2.0.2

| all closed bugreports with milestone 2.0.2

• various small fixes
• small language file improvements
• upgrade deprecated gtkitemfactory to gtkuimanager for future gtk-3 compatibility
• remove old tooltips code and main_v->tooltips
• new "jump" feature
• auto-indenting now also supports outdenting

development for 2.0.3

• faster scrolling
• slightly faster syntax highlighting
• initial work towards gtk3
• new translations: Hungarian and Nynorsk
• several new syntax definition files
• better 'toggle comment' feature

development for 2.0.4

• faster syntax scanning
• less memory usage for syntax cache
• mork word towards gtk3 or even complete gtk3 support

beyond that

• clipboard history
• undo redo browser

New development branch beyond 2.0

some ideas:

• rewrite of search and replace backend with options like
  • highlight all matches in the text
  • allow forward and backward searching
• completion of words in current document
• storing undo/redo information in the project file