[ jEdit-users ] Feature wish list for 4.3

[Rob . <rob...@gm...>]

Hi Slava and co,

Let me know what you think of this feature wish list (inspired by
features I find useful in Intellij IDEA). I'm available to help with
the implementation.

1) Comments

Make comment shortcuts toggle comment on and off.

2) Incremental selection/Undo incremental selection 

Select successively increasing code blocks starting from the current
caret location. For example, default implementation could be: first
typing of shortcut would select word, second would select line, next
would select paragraph, etc. Perhaps plugins could provide syntax
intelligent selection information, e.g. select variable, then variable
plus method call, then include method call parameters, etc.

3) Jump to Source (F4)

From sidekick structure browser and hypersearch results etc, context
sensitive keybinding to set focus on buffer with caret at the
appropriate location

4) Navigation and Edit History

Keep a chain of previous edit locations and a chain of previous cursor
locations in order to provide these "Go To" actions:
    Back - back one cursor location in the chain (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Left)
    Forward - forward one cursor location in the chain (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Right)
    Last edit location - back one edit location in the chain (e.g.
Ctrl+Shift+Backspace)

5) Various Navigation and Refactoring Items

API hooks similiar to those provided by the SideKick and ErrorList
plugins in order to provide:
    Next method (Alt+Down)
    Previous method (Alt+Up)
    Find class (Ctrl+N)
And possibly for refactorings like:
    Extract variable (Ctrl+Alt+V)
    Extract method (Ctrl+Alt+M)
Plugins could then provide edit mode specific implementations.

Let me know your thoughts. These features plus the Ruby Plugin I'm
working on will make jEdit an awesome Ruby editor - we'll corner the
market!

Cheers,
Rob