Feature requests

[stianhoiland]

Wonderful project! Very inspiring!

During my first use of focus, I did as I always do: I brain dumped every single thing that occurred to me during my first impression into a note. I do understand that talk is cheap, but for whatever its worth, I will share my thoughts here. From a cursory look at the present issues, some of these are duplicates.

• With smooth scrolling enabled, when page up/down, hide cursor until scroll settles. The animated vertical cursor movement is confusing.
• F1, Ctrl+H for help / intro panel. Show this hotkey first on the intro screen. I got confused after leaving the intro screen onto my first editor because I went into "receiving instructions" mode (as opposed to "discover all the things") because of the help panel.
• Ctrl+, (comma) for open config (Cmd+, on macOS)
• If the cursor is in the editor's context margin (size 4?), don't scroll if going away from edge/context area/into document
• Show line numbers by default?
• Scroll past last line off by default?
• Separate help panel / intro screen for setting up build/output features
• Don't be so eager to show color preview (for example Ctrl+A in config is confusing). Require color under cursor, not line?
• Support "line:column" format in Go To Line
• Support "file:line:column" format in Go To Line?
• Remember cursor y-offset from top/bottom when clamping to start/end of document after page up/down
• Don't scroll to cursor when using Esc to close Build Output
• "Open Directory" feature (i.e. open all files in directory)
• Consider terminology for "directory" vs. "folder"
• Hotkey in file navigator to open current folder in platform file manager. On second thought, I think the current behavior should be changed: Have the Shift+Enter hotkey open current directory in file manager, so that the behavior is the same for both files and directories.
• Remove mouseover highlight from navigator/panel rows after using keyboard to filter/navigate
• Config option to hide mouse cursor when navigating UI with keyboard, similar to hide cursor while typing
• Remember last location in Ctrl+O after Ctrl+Shift+O
• Ctrl+T for new buffer by default
• Ctrl+Tab & Ctrl+Shift+Tab in Switch Between Open Files to navigate list, and release Ctrl to select
• Closing with Ctrl+W should show next buffer, not intro panel
• Tab bar for open buffers
• Bind mouse4 and mouse5 to move_to_{previous/next}_editor_history
• Ctrl+1-9 (3-9?) for jump to buffer shortcuts
• Don't hide editor text selection while in search box
• Option in search box to search within selection only
• Config option to assume search in selection when there is a text selection
• Support ":linenumber" suffix in Open File By Name dialog: Typing ":" sort of accepts the selected file and a line number can be typed. (Don't fill the filename, so that a simple backspace, removing the ":", is enough to cancel.)
• Don't blink cursor while modifiers are held down
• Cursor blinking timing is bugged. Blink timer doesn't reset based on timestamp of window last active?
• Cursor blinking is bugged: Stops blinking after removing selection.
• Don't stop cursor blinking while there is selection
• Option for "|Sub|Word|Navigation|" in addition to "|under|_|score|_|navigation|"
• Skip punctuation (like comma) and not just whitespace during "*_by_word" text navigation
• Notification messages can stack too high?
• Keybind for Esc to close side editor
• Esc to close Color Preview panel
• Esc to exit fullscreen mode when no open buffers
• Esc and Ctrl+W quit application with confirmation dialog when no open buffers + config option to skip confirmation dialog
• Ctrl-Q to quit application as default keybind
• Recently used files & folders. Display on intro panel?
• Save favorite/"bookmark" files & folders

Again, thank you for this fine project!

[focus-editor]

Thank you for your feedback.