Code focus toggle and follow-cursor

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Completed	mkrueger	Normal	2h	2.4

Code focus should be usable from the keyboard. It would be useful to be able to toggle it on/off. When on, it would follow the caret.

Inline search usability overhaul

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Completed	mkrueger	Normal	3d	2.4

The Inline Search Window could use some tweaks to make it more keyboard-friendly.

Make text widget wider, waste less on superfluous words in buttons. An animation as it appears would be nice, maybe using banshee’s GTK animation framework. Also could use banshee’s search box (renders menu options icons and clear icon within the box).

The XCode bar is actually very useful, or even the Google Chrome search bar is very useful.  Plenty of the options are actually hidden in a popup menu and the defaults are sane to get started.

The default should be as follow (this is from Emacs, incremental search):

• Start in case insensitive mode.
• If the user types an upper case letter during the search, the search automatically switches to case-sensitive mode, and remains in this mode from that point on (until the next search).

Make the quick finder take less space

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Completed	mkrueger	Normal	2d	2.4

The class/method quick finder could take up less space and more items could be shown in that row. See Xcode for an example.

Extend/shrink selection scope

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

Keybindings for expanding the selection to the next largest subexpression, expression, line, scope, etc. Obviously needs support from language bindings, though basic fallback support could be driven by words, lines, string highlighting, highlighting scopes, bracket matching, regions, blank lines, etc.

After expanding, it should also be possible to shrink back down, though shrinking down from an arbitrary selection is not possible because there is no central point.

Markers in vertical scrollbar

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

The vertical scrollbar could have scroll markers for errors/bubbles/searchresults etc inline to make it easier to find them.

Better XML path bar widget

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Completed	mhutch	Normal	1d	2.4

The XML path bar should be a custom widget so that it takes less space, and is more usable, and ellipsises somehow when it gets overwide. It’s almost never shown at the same time as the quick finder (except aspx with code blocks?), so they could maybe use the same space.

Smart tags (or other suggestions mechanism)

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium	2.8

Something like VS’ smart tags, or some other flag/highlight for making contextual suggestions about actions the user could take.

Format selection

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

Add a command for formatting the current selection.

Remember fold state when reopening solution

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

The text editor could remember the state of all fold markers when re-opening the solution.

Remember position and fold state for individual files

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

The text editor could remember the line/col of the caret, and possible fold state of all fold markers, of some number of recently closed files.

Go to last edited position

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

Command for jumping directly back to the last position that was edited. Useful after navigating around, to get back to what you were editing. Should work across files as well as within a file. Distinct from the navigation commands we already have, though maybe this command could inspect the same navigation stack and the undo stack of each document to find the last edited position.

Color Scheme Editor

Status	Owner	Importance	Complexity	MD Version
Pending		Normal	Medium

An editor for text editor color schemes.

A simple editor could allow the user to pick a few colors and generate a scheme from them.

An advanced editor could either allow the user to pick styles from a list of names, or pick them from a sample document, and set their colors.