crib/TODO.md

Copyright 2025 Syed Daanish

TODO

• Fix bug where scroll up at top of screen first line jumps to bottom

• Make completions work with new system

• And factorize renderer into its own class

  • which is just managed by the renderer
  • and adjusment.cc will call it

• which is reused by scrollers/ensurers too (for knowing screen wrapped end)

• this will then allow inlay hints to be possible

• and also make VAI easier to implement (probably as inlay hints)

• and also allow code lens to work too

• and an api to allow line skipping / virtual text which allows for folding logic as extention

• Also time extentions and disable if they take too long / for larger files with options to force

• Allow keybinds to be set in ruby

• ruby file for project specific runs alongside any system wide ones

• Seperate system functions into a class that branches to support local / ssh / server modes.
• Even lsp shouldnt be directly controlled because it can branch on local and server modes
  • check libssh2 or child process stuff for remote editing (remote mode)
  • Thick and thin mode (server mode) (through ssh or port) (for website only port + webhook)
    • thin mode only shares screen diffing over the network - uses server settings / themes / shell
      • only one user connects at a time
      • provides data as a websocket with tui or gui/online modes where tui shares diffing as is (can be connected to by gui or website)
      • and gui/online modes try to (if not then render onto a canvas) forward window.render_gui() and dedicated windowing system (i.e windowing is html divs)
      • and window.render_gui() returns a markup code (custom markup)
        • and for events i could either leave tui as-is and for markup have special event handling or i
        • implement the widget system in both and have the same event handling then
      • actually for true cross platform i need to make a ui lib with widgets etc. so it is workable on all platforms (so they all need only a single ui lib)
    • thick only shared fileio and lsp data with local used for all else - uses local settings / themes
      • multiple users connect at once but maybe either make them not be allowed to open same file or make vscode like multiediting (unsure how exactly)
      • they all share same lsp instances
      • they all have the same shell access
    • allow having an instance that forwards thick mode to thin mode (to connect online mode to a thick server for code collaboration)

• Then allow ruby code to create and handle windows as extentions

• Then 3 inbuilt extentions being file manager, theme picker, tab selector

• make another tile type called tile tabbed that has a tab switcher and shows only one of its children at once

• it takes focus and takes some keybinds for switching and forwards the rest (it also forwards the info and adds one for itself - the selected/total tabs)

• also implement info strings for all the stuff that take focus

• Mode is a feild on a editor and there is no global "mode system" except in editors (enxtentions do their own thing)

  • make mode normal and not atomic if it is truly unused across threads
  • this means keybinds can be set to use the editor as insert mode only and so behave like vscode

• split lsp stuff into multiple files (not a monolithic class as it is now)

• Extentions can also be used as file openers (for like databases . diffing . images . audio etc)

• Local cache for state management (like undo history, cursor positions etc) (location can be set in config)

• make sure to write inbuilt extentions in cpp and not ruby

• also move default bar and clipboard back into cpp

• all lsp popups are no longer their own classes but instead windows (extention like) in popup mode

• also fix click handling to send mouse unclick to the same focus window as the click And also for drag to be same as the starter

• skip opening binary files

• apply themeing in bg log bar lsp popus etc. to keep visual consistency

• searching/replace/Multi-Cursor (for just one lsp command for all) with pcre2 with regex (started by a slash) (disabled for large files)

• add links support in xterm (kitty like clickable links)

• And preprocess markdown in popups to be more like styled than just highlighted

• In the ruby libcrib populate toplevel binding and file and dir and rubybuild stuff and other similar constants

• in require_relative allow requiring without appending .rb if possible.

• Possibly in the future limit memory usage by parser for larger files

• Add a file picker suggestion while typing a path (including stuff like ~ and .. and $HOME etc)

• allow opening directory after filemanger is sorted out.

• commands to: change pwd load a rb file run a ruby command close a window etc.

• Add mgems for most common things and a ruby library to allow combining true ruby with mruby

• add command to set and use a file type at runtime

• color alpha in ini files

• Make warning before ctrl+q for saving

• LSP Bug: Check why fish-lsp is behaving so off with completions filtering.

• Line move: fix the move line functions to work without the calculations from folds as folds are removed.

• Editor Indentation Fix: - Main : merger indentation with the parser for more accurate results.

  • Ignore comments/strings from parser when auto-indenting.
  • Support for stuff like bash \ and math operators in other languages and comma and line starting with a dot (like in ruby) etc.

• Readme: Update readme to show ruby based config in detail.

• UI Refinement:

  • Finish autocomplete box style functions.

• Documentation UI: Capture Ctrl+h / Ctrl+l for scrolling documentation windows.

• Cap line_tree data limit for large files and just store about a thousand previous lines maybe? (lazily loaded)

• add :j<n> command to jump to line <n> in the current file

• and give warning for invalid commands

• and upon escape clear the current command

• allow multiline logging which captures the input entirely and y will copy the log and anything else will exit

• it will then collapse to being the first line from the log only

• allow flushing functions in ruby to tell c++ to refresh keybinds/themes etc.

• LSP: support snippets in completion properly check:: pull diagnostics for ruby-lsp lsp selection range - use to highlight start / end of range maybe? goto definiton signature help document symbol for the top bar maybe? (or workspace symbol) also setup workspaces Semantic highlighting Quick fixes Rename symbols

• Allow ruby to config lsp capabilities

• also try to fix why solargraph is the only one breaking on edits near emojis

• ruby-lsp also supports erb so thats a plus

• the ruby should have an api to be able to draw windows and add mappings to them

• Syntax highlighting

• ruby done!!

• finish bash then do all the directive-like ones like jsonc (first to help with theme files) / toml / yaml / ini / nginx

• then ch? then gdscript and python then erb then php

• then markdown / html

• then gitignore / gitattributes

• then fish then sql then css and [jt]sx? then lua (make with type annotations for lsp results)

• then haskell then gomod then go then rust

• Undo/Redo: Add support for undo/redo history.

• Auto brace selection: Add support for auto brace selection.

UX

• Completion Filtering:

  • Stop filtering case-sensitive.
  • Normalize completion edits if local filtering is used.

• Basic Autocomplete: Keep a list of words in the current buffer for non-LSP fallback.

Features

• Search & Replace:

  • Add Search/Replace UI.
  • Support capture groups ($1, $2) or allow Perl regex directly.
  • Ensure virtual cursors are included in search positions.

• Multi-Cursor:

  • Add virtual cursor support (edits apply to all locations).
  • Add Alt+Click to set multiple cursors.
  • Allow search and place cursor at all matches.

• Block Selection:

  • Double-clicking a bracket selects the whole block and sets mode to WORD.

Visuals, UI & Extensions?

• Add color picker/palette (as a floating extention).

• Git: Add Git integration (status, diffs).

• AI/Snippets:

  • Add snippets support (LuaSnip/VSnip style).
  • Add Codeium/Copilot support (using VAI virtual text) as a test phase.

• SQL: Add SQL support (Viewer and Basic Editor) (as ruby extension).

• Prolly?: Add Splash Screen / Minigame.

Unimportant optimizations

• Performance:
  • Switch JSON parser to RapidJSON (or similar high-performance lib).
  • Decrease usage of std::string in UI, LSP, warnings etc.
  • Also for vectors into managed memory especially for completions/lsp-stuff.

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