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Woodland Editor

Aimed to be a text editor that:

  1. Loads Instantly on startup

  2. Load and edit big files just as easily as small files

  3. A single exe file

  4. Stable - doesn't crash

  5. A cross between Sublime Text and 4Coder

It's really just for me as a fun project, something to practice using Direct3d and practice getting better at programming :)

Roadmap

  • Render text using d3d 11
  • Using Gap Buffer for text editing
  • Open file using Windows Dialog Box
  • Save file using Windows Dialog Box
  • Drag and Drop a file in
  • don't render utf-8 BOM at start of file
  • View multiple buffers open and jump between the panels
  • Scroll buffer and jump to cursor when active
  • Keyword hightlighting of C/C++ keywords
  • Copy and Paste from the Clipboard
  • Mouse click to move cursor in the buffer
  • Ctrl - Arrow to jump tokens back and forward
  • Saves windows size from last session in AppData folder

Near Future (roughly in order of priority)

  • Up and down arrows to move line by line

  • End of line key & home key to jump to end of line and start respectively

  • Open buffer that has been loaded (ctrl - b -> open a dropdown of all open buffers)

  • Add search filter for open buffers

  • Robust Undo/Redo

  • Ctrl-Find in an open buffer (not fuzzy search)

  • Shift highlighting of multiple lines to cut, copy & delete text - both with Shift-Arrows and Mouse Click-Drag

  • Ctrl-Find in a whole project (not fuzzy search)

  • Recomend code based on what's in the buffer already (drop down of choices (is fuzzy) that you can choose with arrow keys, like sublime text)

  • Ctrl-G jump to line in buffer

  • Error highlightling when brackets or parenthesis don't match

  • Vertical Guidlines to match up scope levels

  • Chunk the buffer to optimize editing and rendering the buffer

  • Full Unicode support (trying to account for it as I go, but not fully and sure to be mistakes and edge cases not accounting for)

  • Utf-16 rendering (have to find a way of detecting if it is a utf-16 file - maybe just look for the BOM header, also have to write a utf-16 decoded which doesn't seem to hard)

  • Have concept of project that is remembered (just a folder, store previous projects in AppData)

  • More intuitive GUI than 4Coder for choosing a open buffer and navigating a project (more like sublime text)

  • Detect when a file should just be rendered as hex code (binary files) instead of text

  • Choose Color themes and build your own easily with GUI color picker that changes text in real-time

Longer Support

  • Multiple Active Cursors in a buffer
  • More encodings than utf-8,hex & utf-16. For example Greek (Windows 1253), Celtic (ISO-8859-14)
  • More Syntax highlighting for different languages
  • Add build system with jump-to error
  • Record macros like emacs
  • Beautify C/C++

If you encounter a crash bug:

Go to %UserName%/AppData/Local/CrashDumps and get the crash file that corresponds to your crash. Please send to ollietheexplorer@gmail.com