Well, if this is a text editor for programmers, i would like some of the following :
- Bracket matching
- Color Coding (syntax highlighting, standard to code editors)
- FTP (or SSH) interfaces for editing remote files (like SlickEdit)
- perl -c inteface (via a button named check maybe ?)
- User settable icons (like Dev-C++ (gnome|normal))
- Template facility
- URL Encoding (i hate typeing <)
And, some features i would like in a text editior regardless of if it is a code editor or not.
- Unicode capable
- (En|De)cryption (via pgp or DES maybe ?)
- Perl Regular expressions (as you stated. I would love this)
- vi (or vi like) substitution ability
- <joke> a (hidden?) link to the monastery in the help menu </joke>
- GPL :)
i had a memory leak once, and it ruined my favorite shirt.