List of existing and planned features with links to description of each feature with relevant tickets and test cases to make sure the features are implemented correctly.

Features

• multi-platform: Microsoft Windows, Linux, !FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD
• Free and Open Source Software under the Perl licensing terms: ​GPL I ​Artistic I
• Written in Perl. There are parts that rely on libraries written in C or C++ but they are all wrapped in CPAN packages and have an API in Perl 5.
• Visual Editor Effects
  • Line Numbers
  • Code Folding
  • Current Line
  • Right Margin
  • Newlines
  • Whitespaces
  • Indentation Guide
• Syntax Highlighting
• Run a Script
• Title and Status Bar Personalization
• Command Line Window
• Open Resource
• Quick Menu Access
• Single Instance
• Remote Editing via FTP, HTTP, SSH
• Cooperative Editing (Swarm)
• Search and Replace
• Incremental Search
• Find In Files
• TODO List
• Code Snippets
• CPAN Module Installer
• Session Management
• Split View
• Bookmarks
• Project Management
• Autocomplete
• Help Viewer
• Context Sensitive Help
• Rectangular Selection and Editing
• Autoindent
• Bracket Completition and Matching
• Code Browser and Var tree called Outline
• Source code suggestions and Autocomplete
• Configuration and Preference System
• Open Selection
• Multi-document editing - as far as we understand this only means you can edit several files at the same time
• Code-assist editor - What does this cover?
• IME - Multilingual Input Method Editor - AFAIK this means typing in Kanji or Hebrew and other non-latin letters.
• integrated web server for CGI testing: #31 #32

Perl-specific features

• Real Time Syntax Checking For Perl 5 and 6
• Perl 5 Debugger - remote debugging
• Refactoring Perl 5 code
• Automated Build and Test
• Perl 6 features
• Regex Editor
• Extendable in Perl 5 via a Powerful API
• Features/PerlTidy - automatic reformatting (tidying) of code
• REPL
• Project Browser (Tree view of source files and resources)
• Identify Common Errors
• special features for beginners (we can create a page listing them)
• advanced features (we can create a page listing them)

• Extendable in Perl 6 and other languages
• Features/HandleMultipleLanguages

Plugins

• Plugins generic plugins related tickets
• Integrated Version Control
• Super Grep

Feature requests and ideas from other sources

In this section we have lists of features taken from verious articles and web sites comparing tools and even from other IDEs.

For each feature we first link it to a related ticket but later on we will point to the description of our implementation of that feature.

From Perlmonks

Perlmonks has a table comparing features of IDEs and editors to be used for Perl development.

The table can be found at ​Perl Development Tools

TODO: add links to the relevant Feature Pages

Feature	Status or link to ticket	Comment
Perl Exclusive		Why is yes considered good here?
Free		yes - Under the "perl" license.
Perl Engine		Any - Padre itself runs on 5.8.7 or higher but your code can run on any version of perl
Syntax Checking	yes
Syntax colouring	yes
Auto indent	#16 + add more specific
Incremental search		yes
Bracket matching	yes	#236 added auto bracket completition
Folding	#61
Var tree	#62	The tool shows the set of var you use along the code
Code browser	#63	The tool shows 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	yes
Suggest & complete	see #67 but add more
Identify errors	#111 #52
Interactive shell	#110
Code snippets		yes
Project	#10
Control version	#82	(is that version control integration?)
Multi document	yes
Split view	#64
IME		Multilingual Input Method Editor
Docs & Help viewer	#56 #57 #58 #59
Module installer	#70 Integration with CPANPLUS wx interface?
WEB	#31 #32	It has a web server integrated for cgi test
FTP	#12	Read and write over ftp protocol (modify the program at remote server)
HTML export	#112	To export the source of program with the syntax colouring.
Linux	yes
BSD	yes	Tested on FreeBSD (see: Download)
Mac OS X	sort of
Solaris
Windows	yes

From Perl Needs Better Tools

​Perl Needs Better Tools by Matisse Enzer

Feature	Status or link to ticket
Syntax-coloring	yes, #6
Real-Time Syntax-checking	#23
Version control integration	#82
Code-assist editor
Excellent refactoring support	#8 #525 #531
Tree view of source files and resources
Support for creating and running unit tests	#10 #65
Language-specific help
Run your code under a debugger with real-time display of results
Automatic reformatting of code.
handling of multiple languages
Automated build and test

From Enlightened Perl

Work together with the folks at Enlightened Perl ​http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ to see how Padre can provide a GUI for their efforts. Look at Kensho, ​http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/ a list of recommended module and see how Padre can provide a GUI (via a plugin or in core Padre) for them.

From Competitors

See the Competitor Analysis

From Eclipse EPIC

​Eclipse CDT - C/C++ Development Tooling ​Eclipse Java development tools (JDT)

Some of these features are only relevant (or possible) for C/C++ or Java

Feature	Status or link to ticket
Find all references
Find definition/declaration/usage
Type Hierarchy
Call Hierarchy (or call graph)
Refactoring
Source navigation
Syntax highlighting
Code folding	under Visual Editor Effects
Hyperlink navigation
Include browser
Project creation	Project Management
Managed build for various toolchains
Standard make build	Via Run menu
Macro definition browser
Code generation	partly (File -> New...)
Visual debugging tools
Memory, registers, and disassembly viewers