A list of desired features

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Somewhat urgent:

- Make undo/redo work also for justifying.

- Detect when text is being pasted, so that we can handle it faster.

  See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40060.

- Allow color syntaxes to apply to more than just color, so that we can

  e.g. specify a different alternate spell checker depending on which

  file type we have open.

Vague musings:

- Add support for right-to-left text (RTL), through FriBidi?

- Allow setting marks (saved positions, not to be confused with the

  mark set via Ctrl-^) at various lines and/or columns in the buffer,

  and allow movement between them with a single keystroke?

- Make matching bracket searches sophisticated enough to skip over

  brackets inside comments?

For version 2.9:

- Allow piping (marked) text to an external command and replacing it with

  the command's output.  That is: implement filtering. [DONE]

- Allow to record and replay a macro: a stored series of keystrokes. [DONE]

- Make undo/redo work also for indenting. [DONE]

For version 2.8:

- Allow text searches in the help viewer. [DONE]

For version 2.4:

- Handle window resizes better.  After we've resized, we should stay

  wherever we were before we resized, as Pico does. [DONE]

- Allow even better file-type detection than we have currently, e.g.

  through libmagic. [DONE]

- Compatibility with vim status files to let other editors know we're

  in a file. [DONE]

For version 2.2:

- Rebindable keys? [DONE]

- Undo/Redo keys (M-U and M-E)? [DONE]

- Fix problems with color syntaxes highlighting lines too aggressively. [DONE]

- Allow nano to work like a pager (reading from stdin). [DONE]

- Select a color syntax based on more than just the filename extension. [DONE]

- Allow soft wrapping as well as hard wrapping? [DONE]

For version 2.0:

- UTF-8 support. [DONE]

- Support for paragraph searches. [DONE]

- Support for justifying the entire file at once. [DONE]

- Support for filename searches in the file browser. [DONE]

- Keystroke to implement "Add next sequence as raw" like vi's ^V. [DONE]

- Spell check selected text only. [DONE]

- Make "To Line" (^W^T) and "Read from Command" (^R^X) reenter their

  parent menu when their keystroke is entered a second time (^W^T^T and

  (^R^X^X) (requires figuring out when to keep cursor position and when

  not to). [DONE]

- Fix resetstatuspos global which we shouldn't have. [DONE]

For version 1.2:

- Single-line scroll up/down? [DONE]

- Color syntax highlighting? (There seems to be a demand for it.) [DONE]

- Support for a .nanorc file. [DONE]

- Backup making (filename~)? [DONE]

- Search/replace string history. [DONE]

- Implement Pico's -j and -g flags, as they are pretty easy to do. [DONE]

- Make mouse support work with clicking on the shortcuts (-m). [DONE]

- Implement -o (--operatingdir, a chroot of sorts). [DONE]

- Allow -r to take a negative argument, meaning right margin instead of

  left (allows resizing that way), formerly -W arg. [DONE]

For version 1.0:

- Implement Spelling. [DONE]

- Implement Help. [DONE]

- Internationalization [In progress, translators welcome!]

- Allow nano to be resized in X. [DONE]

- On PageUp/Down, put the cursor on the first line (like Pico), not the

  center line. [DONE]

- Implement justify function. [DONE]

- Cut to end of line. [DONE]

- Built-in speller command. [DONE]

- Better statusbar interaction (scrolling, tab completion). [DONE]

- Unjustify command (^U after ^J). [DONE]

- Username completion (~user). [DONE]