Re: Favorite or most wanted text editor features?

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.

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Re: Re: Favorite or most wanted text editor features? by premchai21 (Curate) on Oct 19, 2001 at 22:10 UTC
XEmacs does most of what you want... `ADBX C-u 1 M-x add-global-abbrev RET automatically done by XEmacs. RET` `WABOP C-u 1 M-x add-global-abbrev RET with a bit of programming RET` Bracket matching: ADBX. Syntax highlighting: ADBX. FTP / SCP interface for editing remotely: FTP is ADBX; I'm not sure about SCP. It shouldn't be too hard to modify ange-ftp though; so SCP can be ADBX WABOP. perl -c interface: ADBX IIRC with CPerl mode; if not, easily creatable using shell-command-on-region and save-excursion, so can be ADBX WABOP. User settable icons: Doable IINM. Template facility: I'm not sure what you mean. URL Encoding: I think you mean HTML entity encoding. Just create a new minor mode, say, html-entity-encoded-mode, and add a hook to check for new characters needing entity-encoding. ADBX WABOP. Unicode capable: XE is almost Unicode capable. People are working on it. Cryption: Unfortunately not ADBX, yet, though one can invoke GPG or similar with an (M-x term)-inal. Perl 5 regexen: One way to do this is interface to perl itself; another way would be to rewrite XE's regex engine... can be ADBX WABOP or with a lot of programming depending on how you approach it. vi (or vi like) substitution ability: Blasphemy! Blasphemy! :-) Really though, (?:query-replace\|isearch)(?:-regexp)? is enough for me. I'm not sure how vi handles it. Link to the monastery: Can open URLs. Can therefore open http://www.perlmonks.org/, either with XE/W3 or in a separate browser. GPL: That it is.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Favorite or most wanted text editor features?
by premchai21 (Curate) on Oct 19, 2001 at 22:10 UTC

XEmacs does most of what you want...

ADBX C-u 1 M-x add-global-abbrev RET automatically done by XEmacs. RET
WABOP C-u 1 M-x add-global-abbrev RET with a bit of programming RET

Bracket matching: ADBX.
Syntax highlighting: ADBX.
FTP / SCP interface for editing remotely: FTP is ADBX; I'm not sure about SCP. It shouldn't be too hard to modify ange-ftp though; so SCP can be ADBX WABOP.
perl -c interface: ADBX IIRC with CPerl mode; if not, easily creatable using shell-command-on-region and save-excursion, so can be ADBX WABOP.
User settable icons: Doable IINM.
Template facility: I'm not sure what you mean.
URL Encoding: I think you mean HTML entity encoding. Just create a new minor mode, say, html-entity-encoded-mode, and add a hook to check for new characters needing entity-encoding. ADBX WABOP.
Unicode capable: XE is *almost* Unicode capable. People are working on it.
Cryption: Unfortunately not ADBX, yet, though one can invoke GPG or similar with an (M-x term)-inal.
Perl 5 regexen: One way to do this is interface to perl itself; another way would be to rewrite XE's regex engine... can be ADBX WABOP or with a lot of programming depending on how you approach it.
vi (or vi like) substitution ability: Blasphemy! Blasphemy! :-) Really though, (?:query-replace|isearch)(?:-regexp)? is enough for me. I'm not sure how vi handles it.
Link to the monastery: Can open URLs. Can therefore open http://www.perlmonks.org/, either with XE/W3 or in a separate browser.
GPL: That it is.

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