Comming up next

[RaphaelPour]

Discussion about upcoming features/milestones.

• Milestones
• Vision

Milestones

1. Develop femto in femto itself ✅

Files can be opened, edited and saved including navigation.

• Save file Save file #12
• Make text editable Make text editable #11
• Add arrow key navigation Add arrow-key navigation #9
• Restore terminal Restore original terminal #8

Released with v0.3.0

2. Convenient for daily routines ✅

Make femto more convenient to master simple daily routines: Adding a changelog entry, fixing simple bugs, changing configs. All enhancements and bugs are related to experiences with femto in the everyday life of a software developer. At the current step each issue was more or less a reason to stop using femto for a certain task.

• Add delete #23
• Add tab #20
• Fix disappearing char at EOL #21
• Fix missing last line on save if empty #26

Released with v0.4.0

3. Refactoring ✅

While C projects can get messy really fast, some refactoring should take place. The session file is a bad monolith and so is the session struct. It would be nice to split up and outsource more of the sessons functionality.
Further loosely related features/files/constructs which could be considered to refactor:

• Session refactoring Refactor session #25
• Consolidate types Buffer and Line
• Simplify buffer manipulation

4. Speed up workflow ✅

Add more key-bindings to speed up workflow.

• Navigation
  • Jump to start/end
  • Page up/down
• Ignore unused key-bindings [Input] Ignore unused special keys #35
• line numbers

5. Colorize ⚪

• Synatx highlighting
  • implement feature
  • support C
  • support Go
  • support json

Vision

• Syntax highlighting
• Key bindings:
  • Search (with regex)
  • Find & replace
  • Mark all/character/line
  • Copy marked/character/line
• Copy & Paste
• Undo/Redo (ring buffer)
• Multi-file support
• Status bar:
  • Current time
  • Worktime: Start time - current time or measurement per key stroke with cool down
  • Count of chars in total
  • Y-Scroll-Percentage
• For Fun/Science
  • Animation in the status bar which goes faster with inactivity and vice versa like bisqwit's that_editor
  • Calculate entropy
  • Calculate histogram of words/symbols
  • Prometheus exporter:
    • Keystrokes, Addition/Deletions
    • per file
• Concepts
  • hookbased plugin system:
    • on_key, on_save, on_refresh, ...
    • graphbased with one graph per mode?
    • move core to plugin (input, output, status bar)
  • window management, everything (statusbar, dialog, text output) is a window