Future of TED Notepad
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The project is alive. Although there is less time for development nowadays, new versions are being pushed from time to time. While still in alpha testing, you can check here, what you can perhaps look forward to. Or you can sign up for the testers group, if you'd like a sneak peek, or become part of the testing and development clique. We don't bite.
Suggestions and Requests
If you would like to let me know about your favorite feature missing in TED Notepad, use this form below, or send me an e-mail directly. If you do so, please, also consider donating or otherwise supporting the project.
Note: I've been receiving a lot of messages lately. I try to address bug reports and user troubles as soon as possible, but it might take a while 'till I get to all feature requests and suggestions. But don't worry, I always read and consider them all.
Development priorities
| What priorities should the development of TED Notepad follow? What shall be done sooner rather than later? | |
|---|---|
| Language translations. |  28% |
| More editing features and options. | 24% |
| More tools, please. | 17% |
| More settings about behavior and look. | 16% |
| Installation and auto-replacement. | 9% |
| Isn't it becomming a bit too voluminous? | 4% |
| I think it is too heavy already. Stop! | 4% |
Poll started on Jun 9, 2006. The results are updated manually from time to time. Please, do not vote more than once for each option. Votes for multiple options are allowed, but multiple votes for one option will be ignored. Do not abuse — it takes time to resolve — time that I would like to spent otherwise. | |
Frequent wish-list
This list covers accepted frequent suggestions. Post your opinions about them, if you have some, to clear ideas out, get me more interested, or speed things up and set priorities.
- Translations into other languages. If you are interested in translating TED Notepad, contact me by e-mail.
- Text folding, brace matching, etc.
- Third font option, for OEM fonts.
- Window transparency feature.
- Code snippets - similar to clips, but mure permanent and including processing variables.
- Simple macro architecture - load a file, do something specific, save, close.
- Read-only flag for a document to prevent accidental modifications.
- History strings for Search and perhaps Tools dialogs.
- Default strings for Search and perhaps Tools dialogs.
- Auto-Paste from clipboard upon clipboard being used in other applications.
- Remember last cursor position for recent files.
- Cut Columns: Add lines from clipboard as a column, e.g. as a %c variable.
- Filters: Parameter to save the selection into a tmp file, then run the command with its name. After the command has finished, re-read the tmp file as results.
- Encryption, hashes, encoding.
- Random text generator.
Further wish-list
This list covers less frequent suggestions. Post your opinions about them, if you have some, to clear ideas out, get me more interested, or speed things up and set priorities.
- Strip HTML tags from the selection.
- File associations management for TED Notepad.
- Filename patterns - check, whether filename ends with a "yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss" pattern, and if it does, save to a new file according to the actual date/time.
- Macro recording, editing and playback.
- Repeat next command n times.
This list often gets out of date, better not assume this is all there is..
On the fence wish-list
- MDI Interface (Tabs). This feature might get eventually done as an external workspace/plug-in someday in the future. If you want to participate, contact me by e-mail. You can handle all the MDI yourself, just by using TedNPad's exports to communicate; we can easily make a tabbed editor with TED Notepad inside.
| Would you like TED Notepad to have a Tabbed interface? | |
|---|---|
| Yes! ASAP! | 60% |
| No. Just keep it simple. | 40% |
Poll started on Mar 3, 2006. The results are updated manually from time to time. Please, do not vote more than once for each option. Votes for multiple options are allowed, but multiple votes for one option will be ignored. Do not abuse — it takes time to resolve — time that I would like to spent otherwise. | |
- Toolbars. They are not meant for a KISS notepad replacement. They bloat the exe file with rather large image resources. However, toolbars could still be implemented as an external plug-in for those who do not mind their size. Are you willing to help getting them done?
| Would you like TED Notepad to have Toolbars? | |
|---|---|
| Yes! Toolbars are a must-have life-savers! | 85% |
| No. Just keep it short and simple. | 15% |
Poll started on Dec 4, 2010. The results are updated manually from time to time. Please, do not vote more than once for each option. Votes for multiple options are allowed, but multiple votes for one option will be ignored. Do not abuse — it takes time to resolve — time that I would like to spent otherwise. | |
