E Text Editor on UserVoice

ctrl-scroll wheel should control font size

2011-11-04T13:54:41-07:00

Roy Pardee suggested:
It'd be great if you could adjust the font size by holding down the control key & going up/down on the mouse scroll wheel (like browsers do).

Variable highlighting [updated]

2011-06-14T17:10:11-07:00

Upon highlighting a variable e should highlight all other occurrences of that variable in the current document. Netbeans and Notepad++ both do this and it's __extremely__ useful. An example of where you might use this feature: you see a variable declaration at the top of a function body and you want to know where it's used (if at all).

Green Luo said:

Definitely needed!

Open multiple Dirs as multiple Projects

2011-06-14T17:08:50-07:00

Green Luo suggested:
At the moment E-editor enable open dir as project. It would be good that it enable open multiple dirs as multiple projects

Delay beginning search until user stops typing

2011-05-19T14:56:10-07:00

nigelthorne suggested:
Currently you are slowed down in typing into the search box by it trying to find the incomplete string you know will have too many hits. ( you will notice this on a big document)

Re-indent [updated]

2011-04-20T06:31:58-07:00

Same as TextMate's re-indent feature: http://manual.macromates.com/en/working_with_text#re-indent_text

eMxyzptlk said:

I would love this as well...

Thanks

TextMate Find Next Behavior

2011-03-31T14:15:11-07:00

danro suggested:
I am really missing my TextMate-style find/next behavior. In TM (or any other text editor for the Mac), I can select some text, hit Command+E (which uses selected text for the next find), then hit Command+G to perform a FindNext, without even pulling up the find window. I find it extremely useful on the Mac and sorely missed here.

SFTP Support [updated]

2011-03-29T09:49:55-07:00

Support for secure FTP servers.

Sean McCambridge said:

is this really that hard to implement?

remove trailling spaces when saving [updated]

2011-03-26T19:05:19-07:00

Remove trailling spaces when pressing on CTRL+S Could be an option of course :-)

Anonymous said:

I think this should be an optional feature.

service [updated]

2011-03-26T19:04:06-07:00

To speed E Text Editor up, just add a background service that load the editor in the ram so it loads instantly on demand!

Anonymous said:

I think this would be good as an optional feature.

Instant loading of large files

2011-03-24T00:32:38-07:00

Jagtesh Chadha suggested:
Support for loading large files instantly, just like Notepad++. Possibly with an additional popup asking the user if its okay to disable undo-history.

Visual Studio-style auto-completion [updated]

2011-03-04T03:29:51-08:00

Currently I have to press escape to show auto-completion options. This is a highly repetitive (and a problem as a sufferer of RSI) since I potentially want to auto-complete every word I type. My suggestion is for the auto-completion list box to appear automatically whenever there is one or more possible completions after typing the first character of a word, as it is done in Visual Studio.

Dave Smith said:

Agree with original comment but this should be an optional feature.

Being Able to save and load projects [updated]

2011-03-04T03:28:04-08:00

which has all the projects setting embedded into project file

Dave Smith said:

Three key points:

1) Ability to save "Projects".
2) "Project" panel to have multiple tabs - allows for switching between Projects
3) Ability to build up "Projects" by selecting files in different directories (not all my projects are under one directory).

Go to method support [updated]

2011-02-15T16:56:54-08:00

Add Go to method support like in Textmate!

ajpalkovic said:

E already has this. Ctrl-L or Navigation -> Go to Symbol can pretty much do this already.

Go to method support

2011-02-15T16:54:39-08:00

Jason suggested:
Add Go to method support like in Textmate!

2 languages (or more) in one file [updated]

2011-01-29T09:57:31-08:00

Eg on an html page use Javascript bundle between script ages and css with style tags

Luke said:

Eg I want to use the jQuery plugin for Jaascript and my own custom plugin for CSS. Can this be done? How?

2 languages (or more) in one file [updated]

2011-01-28T12:25:17-08:00

Eg on an html page use Javascript bundle between script ages and css with style tags

ajpalkovic said:

I'm 99% sure this can already is done and is how e works. What makes you think it does not do this, perhaps you found a bug?

2 languages (or more) in one file

2011-01-28T12:23:07-08:00

Luke suggested:
Eg on an html page use Javascript bundle between script ages and css with style tags

Firefox or Chrome for Web Preview instead of IE

2011-01-28T12:15:17-08:00

Have the option to use Firefox [updated]

2011-01-28T12:14:13-08:00

Luke said:

I would love to able to have Firebug and Webkit inspector while using the web preview.

Have the option to use Firefox

2011-01-28T12:13:16-08:00

Back (Prev) and Forward (Next) Line Positions

2011-01-05T11:38:24-08:00

marstodd suggested:
When navigating, allow positions Back and Forward. Just a list of line numbers!!! How many text editors DO NOT have this and I do way too much editing of text needing this.

WS_FTP Integration

2010-11-26T11:09:15-08:00

dboune suggested:
Integrate with WS_FTP, which appears to have a feature similar to Transmit's drop folders which they have named "hot drop". I am a daily Texmate/Transmit user on Mac and need to be able to do my devel on windows at times. The Texmate/Transmit combination is extremely powerful, and I'd love to see a similar feature in E. Having integrated ftp/scp is interesting, but I'd much rather have integration with a proven external solution.

Make "disable history" an option - for when you work with very large text files (like db scripts)

2010-11-16T06:33:40-08:00

Hannes Buhrmann suggested:
Sometimes I use very large files (up to 60M) and after having done some deletes they become extremely slow. I suspect that they might become very fast if undo history can be disabled.

Function List, rather than Symbols [is now completed]

2010-10-28T01:04:22-07:00

Show Functions and Subroutines; click on one, you're taken there....

Function List, rather than Symbols [updated]

2010-10-28T01:04:21-07:00

Show Functions and Subroutines; click on one, you're taken there....

ajpalkovic (admin) responded:

This is pretty much what the Symbol List does already? If you open the Symbol List pane, it should show you most functions in the file, and clicking on them will talk you to it.

File Explorer [is now completed]

2010-10-28T01:00:20-07:00

Can a standard file explorer pane be added to the e text editor?

File Explorer [updated]

2010-10-28T01:00:20-07:00

Can a standard file explorer pane be added to the e text editor?

ajpalkovic (admin) responded:

Unless I'm missing something, I believe this is already in e, it is the Project Pane.

automate actions with keystroke macros [is now completed]

2010-10-28T00:57:45-07:00

1. Brief/Crisp, along with Emacs and Vi, have automation features essential for me: Keystroke macros and repeat. Basically a sequence of actions (usually but not necessarily performed with the keyboard) like cursor movement, find/replace, search next etc. can be recorded, saved and played back with a single keypress. It's really useful for bulk edits that follow some pattern. 2. Repeat allows any atomic action to be repeated a number of times. Together with search/replace, the above functions can create very powerful compound operations. Eg. Record a keystroke macro to find the next id="", cursor back 8 times, hilite the current word, copy, search again for id="", cursor forward 4 times and paste. Now hit "repeat", type in 10, then hit the playback macro key. Voila - the above operation is performed on the next 10 HTML items with id's replicating their names. Keystroke macros should be saveable, and the "current" macro should be selectable as the one that's played back with the "keystroke macro playback" key (F8 in Brief). This functionality is a massive timesaver and incredibly flexible. Keystroke macros, find/replace and repeat can be compounded to quickly execute loosely similar operations repeatedly across a file. Very useful for programming and also data manipulation/reformatting. sebt :)

When you are searching within a project it's handy to be able to limit the search by file extension [is now completed]

2010-10-28T00:57:04-07:00

Update All Bundles [is now completed]

2010-10-28T00:49:16-07:00

An "Update All" button for the bundles would be great.

Html Tag highlighting [updated]

2010-10-27T10:24:43-07:00

Html Editors have the ability to highlight an entire tag when you choose or click on the opening tag, e.g. a <div>. This is an undispensable feature for Html editing, comparable to matching brackets in programming languages. So I'd very much like to see it.

Dave Ackerman said:

This works perfect! Thanks.

find and replace in files [updated]

2010-10-27T10:15:54-07:00

I would like to be able to find and replace text in all open files. funny that there is no option like that

Dave Ackerman said:

This would be extremely awesome! Don't know why this doesn't exist already. I agree with Lawrence on the options.

Tab tooltip

2010-10-27T01:17:34-07:00

gsm suggested:
I often have files with the same name but in different directories. It would be great if there was a tooltip with the path of the file when I hover over a tab. It could also be a 'status bar message' similar to hovering links and seeing the destination url in the status bar of a browser...

Make Web Preview work better with live data [is now completed]

2010-10-26T17:29:24-07:00

Currently, the web preview only does live preview with static pages. It would be great if the live preview could be piped through a local webserver. There should be a setting to dictate the frequency of update (every second, every five seconds, realtime, etc). This could, of course, cause a huge performance hit, so as an alternative, I'd like to have a keyboard shortcut for manually refresing the preview. Furthermore, it would be very useful being able to dynamically replace a live CSS stylesheet with the one currently being edited. So, for instance, say I am editing a stylesheet called "master.css". In the Web Preview, I could open my live site (either literally on a live server or on localhost) and E would see that there is a master.css file linked in there. E would then temporarily replace the live CSS file with the one currently being edited so that changes to the open CSS file would be reflected in realtime. It would be very similar to the way Firebug works, only your changes could be saved. Stylizer, the CSS editor, also works like this. It would be a massive improvement for working with CSS. Finally, it would be great if we could enter a URL into web preview and open the the HTML, CSS and JS in E and have any changes made to them reflected in the preview. This is a very useful feature of TopStyle and, again, Stylizer.

Make Web Preview work better with live data [updated]

2010-10-26T17:29:24-07:00

ajpalkovic (admin) responded:

in v2.

Separate tab stops for different languages [is now completed]

2010-10-26T17:29:14-07:00

Being able to set separate different tab stops for different languages would be invaluable for those of us that work in more than one codebase on a daily basis.

Variable highlighting [is now completed]

2010-10-26T17:28:48-07:00

Redefinable Keyboard Shortcuts [is now completed]

2010-10-26T17:28:34-07:00

Allow for the keyboard shortcuts within E to be user redefineable. I would like to see Vim/Emacs/Sublime style keyboard macros / multi-key, chainable combos.

Html Tag highlighting [is now completed]

2010-10-26T17:28:05-07:00

Real Time Collaborative Editing

2010-09-21T07:22:16-07:00

John Snyder suggested:
Allow multiple people to collaboratively edit a file in real time. This should behave in a similar fashion to SubEthaEdit.

Color Highlighting

2010-09-17T11:57:36-07:00

lwallenstein suggested:
Would love an option for something like this, configurable perhaps by file type: http://julien.danjou.info/rainbow-mode.html

Being Able to save and load projects [updated]

2010-09-13T05:18:52-07:00

which has all the projects setting embedded into project file

Elia Schito said:

Also it would be important to have a strict project scope (like TM) which for each window opens only files from that project, any other file goes to its own window.

service [updated]

2010-09-13T05:14:46-07:00

To speed E Text Editor up, just add a background service that load the editor in the ram so it loads instantly on demand!

Elia Schito said:

This would better mimic the osx style of one window per project/opened-file.

find and replace in files [updated]

2010-08-29T08:17:57-07:00

I would like to be able to find and replace text in all open files. funny that there is no option like that

Lawrence Lewis said:

I think 2 additional check boxes in the find panel would be nice:
1) find in open files
2) find in project files
If I got really greedy, I'd ask for a filter box in the panel as well, so I could find only in *.h files, for instance

Re-indent

2010-08-25T10:48:44-07:00

charlesroper suggested:
Same as TextMate's re-indent feature: http://manual.macromates.com/en/working_with_text#re-indent_text

Proxy support for the Bundles Manager [is now completed]

2010-08-25T10:46:15-07:00

Currently, the Bundles Manager doesn't work through a proxy. Seeing as many E users will be behind a corporate firewall, proxy support would be very much appreciated.

Proxy support for the Bundles Manager [updated]

2010-08-25T10:46:14-07:00

Currently, the Bundles Manager doesn't work through a proxy. Seeing as many E users will be behind a corporate firewall, proxy support would be very much appreciated.

charlesroper (admin) responded:

Fix:

It looks to me like the bundle manager will use the proxy named in the environment var http_proxy, if it's defined. If I set mine to:

set http_proxy=http://win_username_here:win_password_here@proxy.ghc.org:8080

Then the bundle manager seems to work.

Note that I have to include network credentials b/c our proxy server requires NTLM authentication--try yours w/out & see if it works.

Make support folders accessible from Bundles Editor [updated]

2010-08-24T07:05:52-07:00

The new bundles editor is fantastic, but there is one problem: we can't access the support folders from it. If you want to access a support script, we have to use Windows explorer to manually navigate to where the support files are found. It's a real pain.

shrinkray said:

What I'd like to see in the Bundles Editor is a way to not show the full list of languages and instead, just display the ones I am currently working with. I find the long list of bundles daunting. While I have deleted some that I think I'd never use, I wonder if a better way might be to use a boolean list where you choose which to display. That way you have all of those from install. This would simplify the interface while maintaining the menus that mean the most. Cheers!

Choose Default Browser in Web Preview

2010-08-24T06:46:34-07:00

shrinkray suggested:
Include a setting or preference for the default browser used in the Web Preview panel. In example, for testing CSS3 or HTML5, current Preview does not display as WebKit based browsers.

Redesign to something nicer and more minimalistic?

2010-08-23T09:05:15-07:00

Erik Zettersten suggested:
I am in love with eText. I recently switched from my Macbrook pro to the powerhouse HP Envy laptop. OSX to Windows 7 has been an "okay" experience. One of the things that really sticks out to me is the fact that most, if not 80% of all, windows applications I enjoy using do not have aesthetically pleasing appearances. This results in "just a little" loss of user experience (in my opinion). eText has been the single most greatest thing I have used on a computer (pc/mac) in YEARS. Version 2.0 introduces mouth watering features that I have so very longed for! That being said, is there or will there be an update in this UI? As a front end web developer and someone who works by evaluating user experience. I think it would be a great idea to redesign the eText. This doesn't mean - make it all crazy with colors or add bloat "stuff". It simply means - creating something of a better experience. Here are some areas, 1. Redesign the tab structure (maybe to something similar to Google chrome) 2. Drop down menus (in some cases can be converted to overlay boxes) 3. Pop up boxes can be converted to "overlays". 4. scroll bars can be invisible until hovered upon