Features

Padre will have lots of features and it will be compared to other Editors and IDEs used for Perl development. Here we can list the features being compared on some places and make sure Padre will support them.

Listed on ​Perl Development Tools

TODO: add links to the relevant tickets

Feature	Status or link to ticket	Comment
Perl Exclusive		Why is yes considered good here?
Free	yes
Perl Engine	Any
Syntax Checking	see #23
Syntax colouring	Perl yes but see #6
Auto indent	#16 + add more specific
Incremental search
Bracket matching	y
Folding
Var tree		The tool show the set of var you use along the code
Code browser		The tool show the layout (class, methods, functions, etc.)
Debugger	#11
Stepping	#11
Breakpoints	#11
Watches	#11
Var evaluation	#11	At debugger phase you can see the value of var
Stack module	#11	View the stack of modules called
Bookmarks
Suggest & complete
Identify errors
Interactive shell
Code snippets		You can store and retrieve set of lines of code
Project	#10
Control version
Multi document
Split view
IME		Multilingual Input Method Editor
Docs & Help viewer
Module installer	Integration with CPANPLUS wx interface?
WEB		It have a web server integrated for cgi test
FTP	#12	Read and write over ftp protocol (modify the program at remote server)
HTML export		To export the source of program with the syntax colouring.
Linux	y
BSD
Mac OS X
Solaris
Windows