I use EditPad Classic, which so far I find has the right balance of features to complexity. The whole jgsoft stable might be a source of good ideas if you haven't seen it already. It looks as though you are going to implement some perl-specific features which I didn't know I needed, however, and it makes me think there are a few things that wd be useful. A template, for example, that popped up a blank file with a shebang line, use strict; and whatever else I found I always wanted. And wd it be possible to have a "Save as CHMOD 755" option? And making the tab button insert 4 spaces, rather than a tab, wd be nice... and indeed auto-indenting by n+4 any line following a "{" - where n is the indent of the preceding line... and indeed preserving the indenting from line to line. And how about building the logic of strict into it, so before I save I click on the "check strict" button and it goes through all the violations, highlighting each one for me to edit it?

Well, I applaud your enterprise and generosity, and I'll be very interested to see the result when it's done.

§ George Sherston

In reply to Re: Favorite or most wanted text editor features? by George_Sherston
in thread Favorite or most wanted text editor features? by EvanK

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