Editora v0.21.0

Roadmap

What's shipped and what's planned, by area, taken from the project's TODO. For everything that just landed, see the changelog.

70 of 85 tracked items shipped.

Native Image experiment

  • ✓ Isolate the StaticFX profile and add a shared real-editor stress/benchmark probe.
  • ✓ Offer a separately labelled, best-effort Linux x64 Native Image release tarball with a bounded actual-application smoke test and separate user settings.
  • ○ Investigate the measured native tokenization/input-tail regressions and intermittent desktop probe stalls.
  • ○ Complete native desktop, peripheral-feature and long-session qualification before considering default distribution; see the measured experiment.
  • ○ Resolve the dynamic Java-plugin closed-world incompatibility only through a separate design, if a native product is pursued.

Controller decomposition

  • ✓ Extract exports, editing, templates, settings, run configurations, navigation, previews, Git actions, chrome, MCP operations, file workflows, sessions, test navigation and install prompts into owners.
  • ✓ Extract buffer completion/popups into BufferCompletion.
  • ✓ Keep production Java files below 10,000 lines and enforce that ceiling in SourceFileSizeTest.
  • ○ Continue reducing window composition and buffer presentation complexity through cohesive owners; the size ceiling is not a target. See window coordinators.

Java editing follow-up

  • ✓ Audit and improve the complete typing → sync → completion → insertion → imports path, with real-key FX regressions and an opt-in portable JDT LS Maven-project probe. See Java editing review.
  • ✓ Validate sibling-module resolution in disposable Maven/Gradle projects and 75 KB Java source; enable JDT lifecycle joining to prevent stale import edits.
  • ✓ Add signature overload switching/multiline lifetime, nested snippet restoration, and grouped undo/redo for completion with eager or adjacent deferred imports.
  • ✓ Add a reproducible sustained typing harness on disposable real Maven/Gradle project copies and profile 16 KB–4 MB normal-mode files; reduce synchronization range-scan cost.
  • ○ Complete a human desktop typing trial and measure painted-frame latency on representative hardware.
  • ✓ Rebase disjoint delayed imports into their completion's undo step, retaining intervening typing, split-view history, redo branching, save marks, and bounded overlap fallback.
  • ○ Evaluate a context-preserving recency policy against the recorded repeated-selection ranks before changing semantic server ordering.
  • ✓ Prepare a standalone JSON-RPC reproduction and compiler proof for JDT's same-file import conflict.
  • ○ Reproduce the intermittent Str popup timeouts from the warmed-workspace macro stress baseline with request/state capture; passing follow-up runs do not establish a fix or root cause.
  • ○ Track JDT LS's conflicting import proposal for a same-file class in broken source; rerun the strict live probe when evaluating server updates.

Editing

  • ✓ Smart backspace — clear the indent in one press / jump back on a blank auto-indented line
  • ✓ Auto indent
  • ✓ Smart indentation
  • ✓ Language indentation aware for the 21 languages we support
  • ✓ Autoclose ()[]{} and quotes
  • ✓ Highlight matching braces
  • ✓ Comment/uncomment code region
  • ✓ Fill paragraph/region (Emacs M-q / Fill Region / C-x f set fill column) — re-wrap to a fill column, preserving indentation + an adaptive fill prefix (line comments, > quotes, Javadoc *)
  • ✓ Smart line start (C-a) — first press to the first non-whitespace, second toggles to column 0
  • ✓ Markdown formatting — format bar + smart list/heading/link/table editing (see "Recently shipped")
  • ✓ Format document — LSP: Format Document reformats the whole file via the language server (textDocument/formatting, when it advertises formatting), undoable; palette + editor right-click. (GFM table reflow also exists.)
  • ✓ Column select support — column/block selection (overlay + column-aware edits)
  • ✓ Multiple cursors support — VS Code–style multi-caret (add at next occurrence / above / below) + Alt-drag column selection (personal RichTextFX fork); see "Recently shipped"
  • ✓ Advanced Undo/Redo support — word/line-level undo coalescing (boundary + idle breaks) and an Undo History tool window (M-g u: in-session checkpoints, jump-to-restore). *The undo tree (branch recovery) was deliberately not pursued — it would mean replacing RichTextFX's linear undo engine for a niche payoff; revisit if there's demand.*
  • ✓ Spell check support — Lucene Hunspell, red squiggles, suggestions, user dictionary, en_US/en_GB; bundled technical-terms dictionary (toggle in Settings)
  • ✓ Private comments/notes — see Personal Notes under "Recently shipped"

Search

  • ✓ Incremental Search — find bar searches as you type (debounced), jumps to the nearest match
  • ✓ Regex search — regex + case-sensitive + whole-word toggles in the find bar
  • ✓ Multi-file search — Find in Files (C-S-f): project + open buffers, off-thread, with replace-in-files
  • ✓ Search results panel — Search Results tool window (M-6), grouped by file, Enter/double-click to jump
  • ✓ Find in Files extras — include/exclude globs, query history (editable combo), regex $1 replace, ripgrep badge, bold file names, right-side default
  • ✓ Highlight all matches — every match highlighted live in the editor (current one accented)
  • ✓ AceJump support — M-g j: type a char, then a label, to jump the caret to any on-screen occurrence

Code intelligence

  • ✓ Autocomplete support — code: snippet popup (Enter/Tab); prose: inline ghost text (Tab); auto + C-M-i/M-/ trigger; Settings toggle. (Next: document-words, LSP, fuzzy matching.)
  • ✓ LSP support — 21 servers (see "Recently shipped"): diagnostics + Problems window (M-8) + minimap/scrollbar stripes, go-to-definition (M-.), find references (M-?), hover (C-c h), LSP-backed completion, TS/PHP auto-imports, and Format Document (whole-file reformat). Server-centric registry, per-server Settings, off by default. Document symbols power the Structure tool window. (Next: format-on-save; rename, code actions, quick fixes.)
  • ✓ Fix structure for the 21 languages we support — the Structure tool window now builds from the language server's textDocument/documentSymbol (precise hierarchy, real kinds, per-kind icons, method signatures), with the fold-region/TextMate heuristic as the fallback for non-LSP files; sort (Position/Name/Kind) + kind filter, expanded by default
  • ✓ Multi language support — UI string translation (en/it/es/fr/pt/de); see "UI localization (i18n)" under "Recently shipped"

Snippets

  • ✓ GUI for Snippet management — Settings → Snippets: a master-detail editor (language picker + per-language user-snippet list + name/trigger/description/body form), saving to <configDir>/snippets/<lang>.json. Palette Snippets: Manage Snippets… (snippets.manage)

Files & version control

  • ✓ Git support — native CLI (branch/status, gutter change bars, commit workflow, fetch/pull/push)
  • ✓ Diff viewer + merge-conflict UI — side-by-side / unified diff (vs HEAD / commit / another file), lazy recursive directory comparison, multi-file staged and working-tree review, word-level highlights, apply-hunk / apply-all, patch export, Git-stage Base/Ours/Theirs merge and an editable Result pane
  • ✓ Local file history — IntelliJ-style snapshots on save / auto-save / before an external reload; a File History tool window (M-g l) lists revisions (date/time, reason, size; latest tagged Current), double-click for a read-only diff vs current, restore = undoable whole-file replace. Gzip'd content-addressed blobs + a per-project index under <configDir>/history/, deduped, with configurable retention (revisions/file, age, size/project). On by default; local-only; off in Simple UI
  • ✓ Detect external file changes — prompt to reload when a file changes on disk (focus-regain / tab switch)
  • ✓ Auto-reload modified files
  • ✓ Remote file editing support — SSH/SFTP: browse/open/edit/save remote files; saved connections (metadata only); local-process features auto-disable for remote (see "Recently shipped")
  • ✓ Log mode support

Keybindings

  • ✓ Complete emacs movement/text manipulation keybindings — backward-kill-word (M-DEL), upcase/downcase/capitalize-word + region (M-u/M-l/M-c, C-x C-u/C-x C-l), join-line (M-^), delete-horizontal-space (M-\), just-one-space (M-SPC), delete-blank-lines (C-x C-o), open-line (C-o), kill-whole-line (C-S-DEL), zap-to-char (M-z), forward/backward-sexp + mark/kill-sexp (C-M-f/C-M-b/C-M-SPC/C-M-k), beginning/end-of-defun (C-M-a/C-M-e), mark-paragraph (M-h), mark-whole-buffer (C-x h), move-to-window-line (M-r).
  • ✓ Abbreviations — simple text-replacement dictionary (a lighter abbrev-mode): edit.expandAbbrev (C-x a e), auto-expand-on-terminator (view.toggleAbbrevMode), edit.defineAbbrev (C-x a g), and a Settings → Editor → Abbreviations master-detail UI. Pure editops/Abbrev with Emacs-style case adaptation. Flat global dictionary, not mode-local abbrev tables; not comment/string-aware.
  • ✓ Auto-fill mode — break prose lines at the fill column as you type (Emacs auto-fill-mode). Pure editops/AutoFill; a guarded plainTextChanges handler on EditorBuffer. *Prose-only (plaintext + Markdown); single-char self-insert only (not paste/reload); not comment-aware in code (deferred with the prose gate).*
  • ✓ C-u prefix (universal) argument — C-u/C-u C-u/C-u <digits>/C-u -, repeats the next command (or count-aware commands read it: C-u C-SPC = pop-mark), and self-inserts a character N times. Pure command/PrefixArg state machine + KeyDispatcher wiring; bound only in the Emacs keymap. *Repeat-based, so a negative argument doesn't reverse motion and C-u 0-style specials aren't honored; native unbound keys (arrows/Backspace) aren't repeated — use the bound C-n/C-f/… equivalents.*
  • ✓ Occur — M-s o: regexp-match the current buffer's lines in a picker, jump to a match (buffer-scoped counterpart to Find in Files). Picker, not a persistent occur-buffer with occur-edit.
  • ✓ Tabify / Untabify — edit.tabify/edit.untabify, pure editops/TabConvert, region or whole buffer.
  • ✓ Align regexp — edit.alignRegexp, pure editops/AlignRegexp; pads to align a pattern's column. Adds spaces only (no whitespace collapse / capture-group alignment); character columns.
  • ✓ Mark ring — C-SPC pushes the caret onto a per-buffer ring (bounded 16, edit-tracked), C-x C-SPC (edit.popMark) pops back and cycles. Pure editops/MarkRing. *Explicit marks only — automatic jump-back is the separate NavigationHistory; no C-u prefix, so pop is its own command; session-only; no global (cross-buffer) mark ring.*
  • ✓ Query-replace — interactive M-% / C-M-% (regexp): per-match y/n/!/./q loop, regex group expansion, case-insensitive search. Pure editor/QueryReplace kernel + a modal session. *, (replace-and-pause), ^ (back to previous), region-restricted replace, and case preservation are deferred; the Emacs keymap's M-% was repurposed from the find bar's replace.*
  • ✓ Narrowing — C-x n n/C-x n d/C-x n f/C-x n w. True narrowing (the document text really is swapped), made safe by EditorBuffer.getContent() meaning the whole document so save/autosave/diff/ history/find-in-files stay correct unchanged. *LSP suspended while narrowed; marker persistence suspended; undo history dropped at the boundary; narrowing is session-only and does not nest.*
  • ✓ Rectangles — the C-x r family: kill/copy/yank/delete/clear/open, string-rectangle and rectangle-number-lines, over the mark-based selection, each a single undo step and remembered separately from the kill ring. *Character columns, so tab-indented text does not line up with the display; rectangle registers deferred with registers generally.*
  • ✓ Kill ring — every kill command feeds a bounded ring; C-y yank, M-y yank-pop, consecutive-kill accumulation (forward appends, backward prepends), a palette picker over past kills, and system-clipboard bridging in both directions. *Per window and session-only; registers / rectangles / C-u prefix argument remain deferred.*
  • ✓ Fully configurable shortcuts — keybinding editor in Settings → Keymaps: searchable command list, multi-key chord recorder, conflict warnings, per-command + global reset; live (no restart), persisted as overrides on top of the active keymap theme
  • ✓ Keybinding themes — switchable in Settings → Keymaps / keymap.select, live (no restart), per-OS (Ctrl vs Cmd): Emacs (default), CUA, Sublime Text, VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA
  • ○ Vim keybindings (modal — needs a mode state machine: normal/insert/visual, operators, counts, registers, : command line; deferred as its own feature)
  • ✓ Standard accelerator commands — edit.selectAll / edit.duplicateLine / edit.moveLineUp / edit.moveLineDown, bound in the CUA/Sublime/VSCode/IntelliJ keymaps

UI / UX

  • ○ UI final touches (fonts, colors, etc.)
  • ✓ Pretty up Settings Window — sidebar categories, search, live preview, reset
  • ✓ File-type icons — a per-type glyph (language logos, image/archive/PDF/table/…, generic fallback) everywhere a file is listed: tabs, Project tree, Open-Files/Recent pickers, Switcher, file/folder finders
  • ✓ "Current Folder" explorer — with no project open, the Project tool window roots at the active file's folder and follows the focused tab
  • ✓ Upgrade breadcrumbs support — _partial:_ Reveal in File Manager / Open Terminal Here on a crumb
  • ✓ Fix Zen mode Programming ligatures are OpenType contextual alternates (calt), and JavaFX exposes no feature-control API (no -fx-font-feature-settings, no Font method) — it only auto-shapes complex scripts, never Latin programming ligatures. Even if it did, RichTextFX's editing model maps one char → one glyph cell for caret/selection/hit-testing, which ligature glyph-substitution breaks (the caret lands in the wrong column). Would require both JavaFX feature support and ligature-aware caret math in the fork. Deferred unless JavaFX adds OpenType feature control

Extensibility & integration

  • ✓ Plugins/API support — Java SPI (com.editora.plugin.Plugin) + declarative plugin.json (keymap / external commands / snippet & template dirs); contributes commands, keybindings, tool windows, editor right-click items, and status-bar segments. The ActiveEditor facade does filePath/text/selectedText/caretLine/replaceSelection/insertAtCaret/setText/openPath, and PluginContext adds openUrl/log/setStatus + path accessors. Off by default (Settings → Plugins). Loaded via a child URLClassLoader so it works in the sealed jlink installers. Registry + install: browse a curated GitHub-hosted index.json, install (download + SHA-256 verify + zip-slip-guarded unzip) or install from a local .zip; per-plugin Remove. 19 plugins published in the adriandeleon/editora-plugins registry (which also carries each plugin's source), with 18 worked examples under examples/. Security: the index is verified against a bundled Ed25519 signature (Settings.pluginRequireSignature, default on, blocks an unsigned/unverified registry; sign with scripts/PluginSigningTool.java); a **capability-disclosure confirm** (jar? external commands? keybinding remaps?) runs before enabling at every arming point; reads are size-bounded and a non-default registry host is flagged. See docs/plugins.md. *Deferred: sandboxing, hot reload, gutter-marker contributions, GitHub-API/per-repo discovery, per-plugin/TOFU signing, auto-update.*
  • ✓ External Tools support
  • ✓ MCP support — a minimal Model Context Protocol server embedded in the editor (loopback HTTP + bearer-token auth) so an LLM agent (Claude Code, …) can observe state, edit files, and drive the command registry. Twelve tools — reads list_open_files / read_buffer / get_selection / get_diagnostics / document_symbols / git_status / find_in_files / list_commands, writes edit_buffer (undoable str-replace / whole-buffer edits) / save_buffer, actions open_file (with line:col navigation) / execute_command; writes <configDir>/mcp-endpoint.json for discovery; status-bar indicator (click to copy the connection command). Off by default behind a security-notice dialog (Settings → MCP Server; view.toggleMcp / mcp.copyEndpoint). No new dependency (jdk.httpserver). (Next: resources/prompts, stdio transport, TODO-scan + open-tabs tools.)

Packaging

  • ○ Sign native installers

Settings sync follow-up

  • ✓ Sync snippets, abbreviations, templates and the personal dictionary through a Git repository; see settings sync.
  • ○ Sync preferences, keymaps, macros and themes (needs a machine-local key list and API-key stripping).
  • ○ A per-entry conflict picker, and restoring an entry from the repository history.
  • ○ Sync on quit, bounded so a slow remote cannot hold the exit.
  • ○ Import a configuration zip.