Roadmap

Future

New major features:

Object Inspector
- Add class and constructor docstrings to the shown info (if available).
- Add search facilities
- Live render support for Markdown and ReStructuredText files
Source Code editor reorganization and language support (Cython, C, HTML, CSS)
- Support for autoindentation
- Support for completion
Outline explorer
- Display Markdown and ReStructuredText headers
IPython Console
- Drop support for IPython 3.0

New major features:

Global:
- DONE New restart option from within Spyder
- DONE Tab reordering for panes
- Floating panes now behave as independent windows
- DONE New default icon set (Spyder 3) based on QtAwesome
- DONE Additional support for PyQt5 (along with our current PySide/PyQt4 support)
Editor:
- DONE Array builder
- Editor Tab reordering
- DONE Improved auto-completion widget
- Emacs keybindings
- VIM Keybindings
- DONE File switcher (ala sublime)
- Code folding support
- Markdown and Restructured text support
Plugins:
- Plugin manager
- Custom Plugins for spyder are now be pip installable
New plugins:
- Autopep8 plugin
- Conda Package Manager to install/uninstall packages included in Continuum repositories
Projects:
- New project model
- Project preferences
Interactive tutorial (similar to the IPython notebook one):
- DONE Spyder exploration
- New features in Spyder version
Custom Layouts
- DONE Support for Matlab, RStudio and new defaults (horizontal/vertical layouts).
- DONE Save as many named layouts as the user wants
Preferences:
- DONE New shortcut entry model, plus shortcut finder
- DONE Select the language for the interface (English, Spanish, French or Portuguses)
- DONE Reset to factory defaults from within Spyder
Consoles:
- DONE Array builder
IPython:
- DONE Drop support for versions 1.0 and 2.0
- Pygments highlighting for the console
- DONE Array builder
History Log:
- Better support for IPython cells

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