First Syntoxic details
Time to to talk about some key features I have in mind for Syntoxic.
Please note the screenshot above is early work in progress, it's not the final UI. I also have more features on my roadmap I'm keeping secret at the moment. The more Syntoxic gets usable the more I'll report on it. Okay, here we go:
syntax highlighting / syntax coloring for many languages
auto-completion
grammars (bnf-style or .plist, maybe both)
themes
extensible with Plug-Ins (API)
Syntoxic Plug-In / Command Creator
execute scripts with your favorite interpreter
scriptable with JSTalk
Syntoxic terminal utility (already 100% done)
powerful text editing and RegEx tools
work in the Cloud, with gists and pasties
Textmate-bundle support
What Syntoxic will not be? Syntoxic won't be a Lemming. It's a trend of upcoming editors to look and behave like Textmate. I prefer doing my own innovations but of course Syntoxic will come with many features, making it competitive to Textmate, at least that's the goal. I hopefully get all those things done, but I'm pretty confident ;)