This is the right place to start if you want anything improved or changed in
ee-ide. Just drop a comment at the bottom of this page and we’ll reply to you shortly and tell you what we think.

Please check the list below for core track / pending requests. Your feedback can help us designing the best solutions to your queries.

Core track

  • Improvements to outline view – We’re making outline view editable (cut/copy/paste class members directly from the outline, add new members ‘antegram style’, from the hover window) and improving the looks of our outlines. This is done, we want to test it a little bit.
  • Source file templates - It’s a little bit sad to have to create source files from scratch every time, so we’re preparing support for templates.
  • Feedback while searching across files – currently, searching across files has no progress bar or feedback. Granted this is a bit weird. In the meantime, remember that CONTROL + ARROW DOWN to search the current keyword while typing is often faster than CONTROL + H, and provides great feedback while searching.
  • Basic language help – We’re planning on providing quick access to commonly used functions in a few languages. This feature will primarily target beginners and will probably combine a context menu with access to online resources.
  • Hinted typing
  • Direct FTP access – We feel that integrating an FTP browser and allowing editing files transparently would be a big plus for web developpers.
  • Version Control Integration – No date announced yet!

Pending requests

  • CONTROL+S – to save the current file
  • Section folding – we’re still a bit unsure about how to implement this, or why. This is because ee-ide provides outlines, and the outlines (starting from coming v1.37, see core track) are getting more powerful.
    If section folding is implemented, we feel section folding should be persistent, ie restored after re-entering the application.
  • Controlling the size of document views – we’re thinking adding a  button to allow maximum/default/minimum space allocation to a document view. Maximum won’t hide other views completely.
    We are reluctant to provide split spane style dragging because we think spending time dragging corners and  borders is a pain. We also think we might automate size control according to mouse focus. Feedback welcome…