first of all, sorry for my bad english. it is not my native language. corrections are welcome.
i am sill a homesite user and found your editors googling for alternatives. i would love to switch to your editor cause homesite feels dated for me and developement stopped ages ago.
i think your editor has great potential. but i also think you should stop thinking about new features to include and work on things that really help developers coding pages.
here is my personal wishlist.
-php syntax highlighting does not work in <script> tags. at least for me. i was really on the way buying your editor but this stopped me. i use a lot of javascript on my pages and so this is a must have. none of the other editors i tested have this problem!
- use autocomplete alternatively with the TAB key. i think altering the autocomplete feature with a linux-bash behavior would kick ass and blow away the competition! e.g. typing TAB after '<div onm' would complete it to '<div onmouse' and then typing "d" and TAB would complete it to 'div onmousedown=""', placing the cursor inside the quotes.
- seperate colors for forms and images is a must have. i cannot understand why this wasnt implemented by the time of writing the syntax-highlighting feature. get the complete list of colorize-able tags from programs like dreamweaver. users are used to such things.
- awesome tiny feature and maybe enabled by default: autoclose brackets and autointend after pressing {+RETURN. get "php expert editor" and enable "automatically closing brackets and auto intend after symbol {. php expert editor has the awesome feature to highlight function and cases with the possibility to hide them!!! add this feature please!
- after replacing things in files using the "replace all" button, things are not updated in opened files. at least for me. again, must have.
- i really like dreamweavers search&replace feature. after pressing "replace all" it displays the file, the altered line in context and underlines the changes. very handy! any unintentional changes are easily spotted. doubleclicking brings you to the altered line. check it out.
- i use my editors without any toolbars and use keyboard shortcuts only. so please let me hide the preview-toolbar too. let people hide things they do not use.
- tune your taskbar! it looks very strange if you place it right after the menu-bar. again look at dreamweaver (or topstyle). both taskbars look nice and have the "must have" feature to arrange the files. a close-button next to the name would be handy.
from my point of view all these things would make it an outstanding editor. i would love to be your customer if these were implemented.
I'll second the request for a close button on each open file tab.
But why, when you can right click the tab and select 'Close' ???
A close button would make the tab bar even more cluttered, and if you've 10 tabs open, you just won't have room.
Double clicking a tab (ala Firefox*) to close a tab would be useful...
(* if you've the necessary Tab Mix Plus extension)
TMP is second only to the Web Developer Extension on my list of FF extensions!