Will Sikuli have a more rich text editor in the future?

Definitely the Sikuli IDE will never have the power of a full featured text editor, that a scripter or programmer might want.

At least we will have text find and undo/redo with X 1.0rc2 and a slightly refurbished outfit. Wether this will give some system specific options for theme handling, I do not know yet.

The "want to change text size" request is already in the bug list.

But if you like, you may use your favorite editor and edit the .py text file directly.

I use the IDE only for short tests, capturing and the preview features. Programming (Editing), running and debugging I do in NetBeans. To run productive scripts I use "java -jar sikuli-script.jar script.sikuli" from command line.

What is missing for parallel usage (most editors have this feature), that the Sikuli IDE recognizes, that a script was changed by some outside actions and gives the option to reload it. Now I have to close without saving and reopen in Sikuli IDE, when changing something in Netbeans and having the script open in Sikuli IDE in parallel. When I do something in Sikuli IDE (e.g. create a new image or set a target offset and save), coming back to Netbeans, the updated version is already reloaded.

I will post a request bug, with the most wanted IDE features (text size, theme options, script reset/reload, copy from one tab to another including images, comment/uncomment, basic syntax warnings/support (colon, indent/dedent, brackets, ...) ... might be more)

A feature i would really love is to be able to select some code and add/remove a # in front of each line that is selected would be really useful for only running part of the script

also it would be nice to be able to indent a selection in the same way.

@Chris:

- block commenting is in the request bug

- block indent is already implemented: select one ore more lines and use tab/shift-tab (edit-menu)