dail8859
commented
1 year ago IMHO, Lightweight editors should be less than 3Mb
3MB is quite tiny compared to today's standards. Possible, yes; but would require removing most features. If you then want to have a cross platform application...it would only increase the size due to all the OS abstraction.
As for the request, I have no desire to document this. Mostly because I can't answer a lot of it. I don't know what will be implemented or what won't be. There's already features I've implemented I thought at one time I never would. There's also other things that might turn out to be too complicated or require too much maintenance. I also don't know when something might get implemented. It is mostly just what interests me at the time.
If someone is interested in contributing non-trivial features to the project I'd encourage them to start a discussion to talk about it. There is certainly lots of room for improvement.
hgkamath
Firstly thank-you to the developers.
The linux world has many advanced editors. Despite that, herein, I note two reasons why a need/niche for cross platform light-weight editors of the type such as notepad++ exists.
notepad.exestarts up very quickly and is useful for scrap writing and and quick editing. Though one would think a cross-platform basic notepad would exist, I don't think there is any serious project maintaining a cross-platform basic notepad, perhaps because it almost always makes sense to add a few more features than the basic notepad. Lightweight editors include lite-xl, notepad-next etc. IMHO, Lightweight editors should be less than 3Mb and load quickly.As it is true that notepad-next is supposed to be a re-implementation of notepad++ in C++ in order to be cross-platform, it is hence fair to expect their features to be compared.
This issue is to request a documentation file,
doc/feature_matrix.mda checkbox-listing, which details features in notepad-next and notepad++ and their status. Such file will probably also double up as a developer todo list. and may even encourage others to become contributors. The list could be ordered to have 3 top-level sectionsThe documentation file will need to be updated periodically whenever there is a version update to either notepad++/notepad-next. ie when features are added/deprecated in notepad++ as well as added/deprecated in notepad-next.
Examples of feature matrices:
https://github.com/mailpile/moggie/issues/6