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I know man. I already been thinking about this. But what's the point? This is simple, but makes it unprofessional. Consider why then You use PSPad instead of WindowsNotepad? Or even better -- why not the DOS Edit.exe? You use PSPad, as I do, because it is made to be 'programer friendly'. These days a programer is better organized. Here is a list of tools every programer needs: _- IDE_ ( or a good editor, such as PSPad, which I consider almost an IDE ) ( includes compiler/interpreter or whatever the language needs to produce an executable version of the source code ) _- version/source control tool_ ( good old CVS, but I started to prefer Subversion ) _- Wiki_ or similar tool, to organize and decribe his ideas ( I just saw the site of this wikiPad pypardo talked about; looks what I've been looking for, but just in case plan to install MediaWiki too /just have brand new laptop and am now preparing it for development/ so if somebody knows cute little Wikis such as this one, please mention it here ) _- Project management_ or similar tool to help organize, manage and measure his work ( tools such as XPlanner, but if someone knows a better one, please tell me ) _- Integrated ToDo inside the IDE_ ( many of us write notes in the source in forms of comments and we all know this is a need; honestly said I would love to have a way to have this organized somehow, such as in Idea and Eclipse; external ToDo would be a plus, but then it overrides some of the functions of the proj.management software ) _- Bug tracking ticket system_ ( Bugzilla; does anyone knows anything simple? especially not web based and for Win32? :) ) _- Model modelling tools_ ( both for database and software modelling: for database modelling, the best free tool I've found is /only for MySql/ DbDesigner; for diagrams is the windows version of Dia /on SourceForge site/, and there are some UML tools, such as /Dia also supports UML/ ArgoUML and the community edition of Poseidon ) _Tools, mandatory when a constant internet connection is available:_ _- Ticket system for suggestions or discussion board ( Forum )_ . . . ( at least cannot remember if I missed something ) Now what I was talking about was the editor to scan at user button press ( for refresh ) the source file against a RegEx pattern for strings in comments, containing 'TODO:' at begining, listing them at the bottom panel ( control-L ), and marking them in colors ( changing the background color as when the compiler found an error ) depending on some additional character in the pattern, which the developer uses to mark if the corresponding TODO feature is in one of the folowing states: [b]- done[b] [b]- cannot be done[b] [b]- later[b] [b]- important[b] ... and so on. would be just great if this could be user-defined, because everybody organizes in different manner. What pypardo was talking about is good, but there are things, such as XPlanner for this. ( or the developer could still use this wikiPad ) If this was a brand new feature, I've suggested, would agree if the PSPad developers would disagree to implement, but since this would be just a copy-paste of the RegEx search functions of the editor, plus a little code altering, I still want to have it, and think, once implemented, everyone here would appreciate it. Please, think again... Evgueny -- PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
