Virtual lines, to me, is the other big one. It's pretty breaking for API so I'd say that one's also non negotiable.

• Port to SDL3
  • Add drag and drop to SDL3
    • Add generic DnD API in Lite XL
  • Implement new clipboard system (with MIME types)
  • Rewrite Scaling handling
  • Hardware rendering with GPU API (maybe?)
  • Proper client-side decorations (with shadows)
• Rewrite tab handling
• Improve token types (nested types)
• Canvas (WIP)
• Floating Views
• Performance improvements with big files (both in number of lines, and in line size)
• Multi-window support (WIP)
• Rewrite font handling (the same font should be used for different "styles")
• Ligatures (WIP)
• Animation framework that handles delta-times
• Background coroutines
• Color schemes handling (e.g. fix inheritance issues)

I'll edit when more come to mind.

The user interface of the plugin manager should be renewed. Information about plugins should be visible through the interface. and the interface should be embedded in the editor.

For this, please head over to https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl-plugin-manager and post an issue; I'd be happy to discuss over there. The interface doesn't have to move in lockstep with LXL, so we can potentially do this earlier if you have some good ideas.

Many necessary features for the editor are provided by plugins, but I don't think it should be like this. Plugins such as the settings menu, multi cursors and etc, should be feature directly in the editor itself.

Also, the general design philosophy of lite-xl is aimed at being minimal; so a lot of stuff being provided by plugins is actually a design goal, rather than a drawback. Multi-cursors however, is a feature that is directly in the core editor, so no worries there; it's already in core.

Settings isn't for a variety of reasons; but IMO mainly due to the fact that the core way of modifying settings via lua code is a lot more flexible than the settings plugin, and not everyone wants the GUI interface for it. It is however bundled with the editor upon release for those who want it, so we do get a bit of the best of both worlds with this approach.