todo.md

To-do List

Items in this list are not sorted by any specific order.

• Core
  • OS specific
    • Pipes
      • Windows
      • Linux
      • MacOS
    • Subprocesses
      • Windows
      • Linux
      • MacOS
    • Filesystem watchers
      • Windows
      • Linux
      • MacOS
    • Better error handling for filesystem API
• User interface
  • Foundation
    • Async tasks
    • Add measure phase to reduce the complexity of layout computation from O(n²)
    • Image assets & images for different DPI
    • Brush extend modes
    • Pango-harfbuzz text handling
      • Basic implementation
      • Performance optimization
      • DPI scaling & minimap rendering
      • Memory leaks
    • Cairo renderer (cross-platform portion)
    • Skia renderer (cross-platform portion)
    • Element references
    • OS specific
      • Windows
        • Direct2D renderer
        • Cairo renderer
          • Base implementation
          • Fix compatibility issues
          • Improve performance
        • Skia renderer
        • Fix open file dialog with the new API
        • WinAPI window styles are not orthogonal
      • Linux
        • Cairo renderer
          • Base implementation
          • Bitmap loading
          • Assert on exit
        • Skia renderer
        • Better DPI scaling support
        • Clipboard support
        • Either revive or cut the X11 code
      • MacOS
        • Window
        • Cairo renderer
        • Skia renderer
        • Miscellaneous OS-specific functions
  • Elements
    • Popups
    • Size limiter
    • Sublime-style input prompt
      • Reference container
      • Virtualized listbox
      • Fuzzy searcing
    • Tabs
      • Base implementation
      • Multiple selection
• Editor
  • Text editing
  • Multiple cursors
  • Whitespace rendering
  • More interaction modes
    • Block selection
    • Direct mouse movement (mouse moves the caret directly)
  • Word wrapping support
    • Soft linebreaks
    • Wrap at word boundary
    • Optimizations
      • Incremental wrapping computation
      • Async wrapping computation?
  • Horizontal scrolling
  • Theme providers
  • Tooltip providers
  • Gizmo providers
  • Folding providers
  • Parsing of decoration renderers
  • Search & replace
    • Plain text
    • Regular expression
  • Code view
  • Go to anything
  • Relative mode(s) for line number display
• Tree-sitter plugin
  • Support for different encodings
  • Languages
  • Syntax highlighting
    • Basic integration
    • Customizable themes
    • Tooltip for debugging
  • Folding provider
• LSP plugin
  • Basic protocol structures
  • UTF-16 word position
  • Languages
  • Backends
    • Stdio backend
      • Convert to platform-agnostic API
    • Socket backend
  • Handling of LSP commands and messages
    • Syntax highlighting
      • Basic integration
      • Customizable themes
      • Tooltip for debugging
    • Hover
      • Basic integration
      • Better popups
        • Markdown content display
    • Diagnostics
      • Basic integration
      • Customizable decorations
      • Tooltips
    • Go to symbol
    • Folding provider
    • Formatting
    • ...
• Python plugin
  • Basic integration
  • API declaration
• Workspaces
  • Tree view
  • Search in workspace
• More unit tests