PSPad is my favorite text editor program and I am interested in seeing it
continually improve. The authors have already done an excellent job of updating
and enhancing it. Here are some features that I think would be very beneficial
to add to PSPad:
1.) The ability to open a new PSPad template from by adding a command line
switch. For example, it would be great if I could make a Windows shortcut like
this: pspad.exe /t "default.html"
which would open a new html file in PSPad just by clicking on it. I know you
can make templates from Tweak UI, but it's just not the same to me.
2.) For clip macro definitions, I would like the ability to have text appear
after the clip value is inserted, not just before. Also, I would like to be
able to include escape characters for newlines and other "special characters"
like semicolons.
Take style sheets for example. I would be able to define the following
interactive clips:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter left padding,padding-left: ,,,,\;\n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter right padding,padding-right: ,,,,\;\n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter top padding,padding-top: ,,,,\;\n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter bottom padding,padding-bottom: ,,,,\;\n
So _\;_ would insert a semicolon after the clip, and _\n_ would insert
a newline. A macro using these clips might be:
[div | div style]
div
{
%paddingleft%%paddingright%%paddingtop%%paddingbottom%
}
;
Then if the user runs the "div" macro and only enters values for left and top
padding, the output would be:
div
{
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 10px;
}
3.) I would like the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts and record macros for
*every* menu command (or almost every one). For example, currently we are
unable to key map to the menu command Edit > Lines Manipulation > Remove
Redundant Blank Lines. Neither can we program/record a macro for this command.
4.) I think other people have already mentioned this, but it would be nice to
have a fully customizable toolbar and context menu (like in NoteTab).
5.) I'm sure someone already mentioned: full, bug-free support for regular
expression search & replace.
After that, PSPad would be perfect (according to me!) :-P
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