Feedback with a multiple suggestions and issues

[michaelrafailyk]

Hi Austin and contributors. I can't find an email for direct message, so I write here.

First of all, I absolutely love how CodeEdit application looks and feels – lightweight, fast, and with a good clean design. I tested it for a one day, and I have a multiple suggestings, issues, glitches, bugs, crashes to report. I'm not sure if I really need to open so many separate Issues on GitHub and if I can open it correctly. I'll be greatful if you can review my list and open the issues correctly yourself. Also, if you need any screenshots or screen captures for confirmations of issues, please let me know.

macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
CodeEdit 0.3.6

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Suggestions about Themes colors

1. The “.md” or “.plist” files doesn’t have markdown or tables syntax highlight, so all the text is colored with default color. I hope it will be added later.
2. I can’t see where the “Values” color is applied. If it is about variables values, then they are colored with the “Text” color for a some reason.
3. It could be nice to highlight line numbers with different color, without depending on “Text” color, because if I choose blue for text color, the line numbers looks not really good on dark gray background.
4. It could be good to highlight some prefixes with its own different color, like “self.” or “@objc.”
5. It could be good to highlight classes names with its own different color, like “MyPluginClass” in “class MyPluginClass(GeneralPlugin):”

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Scrolling UI glitches when opening the files from Finder

When I open the files from project in main window, it works normal as expected. But if I open any file from Finder like "Open with CodeEdit", it is opened in a floating window without any panels, and here are a few problems in this mode:

1. The scroll is not smooth in this mode, it feels like 10 fps.
2. When I scroll the file content, the syntax highlight temporary disables (text becomes colored with default white/black color depending on theme), and when scroll ends, the syntax becomes colored with a Theme colors again. This flashes are not good for eyes.
3. When I scroll the file content up to the top to beginning of the file, and when scroll reaches the top position and continues to moving a little behind the top (kinetic scrolling behaviour in macOS), the text temporary doubles with the shadow. Like one version of text stops scrolling, and the second version continues scrolling up to < 0 of vertical position. This doubled shadow text looks not good for eyes.

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Application crashes

1. I have an application crash every time when I try to send the report from Help menu in application.
2. I have an application crash every time when I change some custom color using default sliders, especially when it is just one slider in Grayscale mode. However, it’s okay when I work with RGB mode and enter the values menually.

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Opening files from Finder

1. If I have some project setted up in CodeEdit, like I added the directory to application, it always shows up even if I open another files. For example, I quit the application. Then, in Finder, I press Open With > CodeEdit. My file is opened with CodeEdit in a floating window without panels (?) and also there is my default project is also opened behind it for a some reason. It looks confusing.

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Incorrect keyboard navigation and selection

1. For example, I have a line like [Link Name](https://somelink/username). When the cursor is at the beginning of the line, and I want to select the whole line with Shift + Command + Right Arrow, it doesn't select the last ")" in the line. The same if I just want to navigate to the end of line by pressing Command + Right Arrow – the cursor moves not to the end, but before the last ")" in the line.
2. For example, I have the same line [Link Name](https://somelink/username). If I place cursor at the end of line, and they try to navigate to the beginning of line by pressing Command + Left Arrow, the cursor doesn't moves at all. It seems like it stucks around "(" or ")" characters.