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diff --git a/docs/features b/docs/features deleted file mode 100644 index 51650f949efc..000000000000 --- a/docs/features +++ /dev/null @@ -1,83 +0,0 @@ -List of things that should be added: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - -+ X11 (Tk, Motif, Xaw) interface. -+ Interpreted language (Perl, Scheme, Tcl/Rush, Python) -+ Additional ports: Windows, Windows NT, MSDOS -+ Forms editing package; use RE's to verify field contents. -+ Internationalization, including wide character and multibyte support. -+ Support for single line window editing, including full editing - capability on the vi colon command line. -+ Rob Pike's sam style RE's. -+ Right-to-left and bottom to top text support. -+ Quitall command, to leave all windows. A ! will force the quit. - -List of suggested features: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -+ It would be nice to have the completion mechanism found in tcsh versions - >= 6.03. For instance, the completion for the `:cd' command will be - directories only. The completion for the `:set' command will be all - options not set at that moment, and for `:set un' will be all options - that are set at that moment. The completion for `:< count' will be the - flags. - -+ Add an command-line option to initially split the screen based on the - number of file arguments, e.g., "nvi -a file1 file2" would initialize - a two edit-buffer display. - -+ Add a "push" command that would push a file on the tags stack. - (Essentially make tags a special case of the stack, and make - the stack more general purpose.) - -+ Make :script just run a command and edit the output, and :interactive, - which allows interactive shell session, instead of just the current - :script. - -+ Add tagging information to the man page so that users can display - the part of the man page that discusses the command in which they're - interested. - -+ Add a zone option so that you can declare that top/bottom few lines - of the screen aren't filled except by accident, so that the text - you ask for is always concentrated in the center of the screen. - -+ Change - :di[splay] tags -> :tags - :di[splay] screens -> :screens - :di[splay] buffers -> :buffers - -+ A macro record function. Add the ability to record a sequence - of keystrokes into a named buffer for later use. Handy when - you're trying to build a semi-complex macro. - -+ The semantics of :split, :bg, and :fg aren't right. Someone needs to - rethink how they should interact. The main problem arises when users - want to get a window into a new file. Currently, the necessary sequence - is ":split newfile|^W|:bg". It would be nice if you could simply - background the current screen and edit a new one. - -+ An option to turn on a ``quarter plane'' model so that you can - go as far to the right or down as you wish. The File or the - current line is only extended if you actually put down a char at - the new location. Very handy for ascii graphics and tables. - -+ Some way of replacing the command bindings. For this to work - cleanly the notion of a command must be separate from that of a - key. (Simulate the Rand editor?) - -+ Vertical splitting, so you can see files side by side. - -+ Tracking. Two or more files are associated so that when one file - is scrolled up/down/left/right other files track by the same amount. - Tracking may be constrained such that two files only track vertically - or horizontally. This is relatively easy to implement. - -+ A status file so that the next time invocation of the editor returns - to the same place, with the same number of windows etc. In case of - change of the screen size, reasonable defaults are used. For each - window size and location of the window, name of the file and position - in it, any tab settings, any other settings for the window (such as - insert/overwrite mode, auto indent etc). Last search RE and maybe - direction. If a file does not exist the next time you invoke the - editor, its window is left in the same place but with some default - message. |