Labs/Bespin/DesignDocs

Features should have design documents, and here is where we will put them. The Roadmap contains plans for when features are aiming to ship, and also a list of future features. If you like a feature and there isn't a design over here, create one and get hacking with us!

Core Editor

There are many many features that the core editor needs. As designs come up, let's put them here:

Proposed

• Snippets is a feature that allows you to type in magic commands right into the text, hit tab, and then it gets expanded
• Go to declaration is a feature that allows you to jump to the declaration of a class or function. Ideally this will be a mouseclick / key stroke away, and optionally via a command.
• Command History takes the current command line output and saves it away, so instead of having a fire and forget info bar to show output, you can open up the HUD and you see all of the past results

Worked On

• if you are working on a core editor feature, place a design doc here!

Completed

• Quick Open Files is like Apple-T in Textmate.... quick access to the files in your project

Collaboration

There is the Main Collaboration doc, and then sub documents:

• Proposed database changes
• Command line detail

Server

• Version control system integration

Extensibility

• Plugin API
• Configuration Integration
• Commands for dealing with custom commands

Dashboard

The dashboard currently focuses on the file browser experience, and there are a few low hanging fruit features that are perfect to dip your feet in the water. Longer term, dashboard functionality will merge with the editor and the dashboard will do interesting project level statistics. For now though there is a Dashboard page that includes items such as:

• Keyboard Support
• Mousewheel Support
• Collapse empty directories
• File info when you single click on a file
• Create new files, directories, and import