🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <sal8.64.0@po.cwru.edu>, sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
> Fellow programmers:
> 
>  As a warm up project for OS/2 programming (as I got really spoiled with 
> ObjectWindows and am rusty on doing everything myself) I'm writing a PM 
> programmer's editor (thinking specifically of working under Workframe with 
> CSet/2). I wanted to get some feedback on what everyone likes in an editor, 
> i.e. - features.
> 
> I've got some stuff on the list already:
> Autoindent (of course)
Is this language-sensitive indenting or just the vi-style of dropping to the
same column on the next line?
> Split windows on the same or different files in 1 instance of the editor
> drag 'n drop editing
> pick yer own colors
> and maybe keyword highlighting (like in Borland's windows based editors)
> 
> Any other ideas? This will probably be a freeware release when I finish as I 
> haven't really seen any decent editors laying around free for the 
> asking.  (And don't tell me about EPM. I hate it.)

However, I think that EPM's find highlight (an ellipse around the found text) beats
the socks off of any other method. It's not going to get confused with any other text.

simon