Feature wishlist

Originally compiled from this discussion.

Most desired features may be implemented as LightTable plugins. Although some facilities require LT's core modification or adding hook into LT's core.

General

• Console plugin <discussion>
• inline editing functionality similar to Brackets http://brackets.io/
• Git plugin (like magit?). <discussion>
  • Reuse some code from ungit project?
• Keyboard based directory browser (like dired in Emacs)
• Remote browsing/editing over SSH (like Emacs tramp)
• A SQL plugin for interacting with databases
• JsLint and JsMin <discussion> (why not JSHint?)
• MDN definition lookup (general documentation lookup plugin?)
• Theme editor
• Checkers/hinters for supported languages. Something like flycheck? General linting plugin with hooks in language modes?
• Paredit-like functionality for supported languages (select syntax form, expand selecton)
• Macros (the ability to store the sequence of keystrokes, replay it and, may be, save it as ClojureScript code)
• Bookmark facility (the ability to bookmark a line in a file and save it in a workspace)
• Merge mode (merging/diffing files inside LT)
• Editorconfig plugin

Inspired by

All of us came to LightTable from some other environment. Let's describe its killer features you can't live without so someone consider porting it to LT.

Emacs

• A kill ring/mark ring.
• Orgmode

Vim

SublimeText

• multiple cursors / column edit / ctrl-d to select text matching selection, etc
• Go to definition anywhere in project with fuzzy complete

Jetbrains/Eclipse/Netbeans, etc

Language plugins

• Ruby work in progress
• Haskell work in progress
• F#
• C#
• R: someone interested in this?
• Lua: same as above?
• CoffeeScript
• C/C++ <discussion>
• Java
• PHP work in progress
• TypeScript