# ICSharpCode.TextEditor.V4

**Repository Path**: wisejohn/ICSharpCode.TextEditor.V4

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- **Project Name**: ICSharpCode.TextEditor.V4
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- **Created**: 2023-12-27
- **Last Updated**: 2023-12-27

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## README

# ICSharpCode.TextEditor.V4
An evolution of the old WinForm text editor. After evaluating a lot of editors for my text editor project, I stuck with this old favorite. However it has a few deficiencies which I intend to correct.
- Dynamic loading of style/format files. Support user defined and editing.
- Rectangle region cut/copy/paste.
- Line wrap, or hover displays the whole line (like folded sections in VS).
- Add support for Lua.
- Maybe some performance tweaks.

Things I don't care about:
- WPF.
- .NET Core.
- Web apps, javascript...


The baseline is from ICSharpCode V3.2.1.7.
Design notes from [Core design](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/30936/Using-ICSharpCode-TextEditor).


# Reboot
After a long hiatus, another whack at this to go along with a slowly evolving editor project. The editor is more of 
text editor (for things like log files) rather than a code editor (because I have several other excellent choices there).

Things that have changed from the original (so far):
- Rectangle selection mostly works.
- Modernized HighlightingManager.
- Added printer support.
- Added finder class. Not fully functional yet and needs unit tests.
- Minimal Markdown syntax and folding. Good enough for what I want to do.
- Folding is now specified in the syntax file and loaded dynamically.
- Added Lua syntax.
- Dynamically load syntax definitions from file.
- Removed external dependencies so it can build.
- Upped to .NET 4.7.2, VS2019.
- Removed some hierarchy and abstraction. Because.
- Removed code tools, like completion etc.
- Removed/refactored lots more dodgy architecture.

# And Now
Much refactoring and reorganizing later, I realize I need to do some major surgery, such as ripping out folding.
I don't want to do that to this body so I'm taking the parts I want and moving them into a new project.
This shall remain here, probably untouched for another five years.