##SketchPad Overview SketchPad is a light weight editor written in Clojure. With Clojure being the single target language, the entire application is geared towards Clojure development and intuitive access to common Clojure tools. This also gives developers access to features which are not traditionally available in IDE's. As SketchPad is the base for the Overtone GSoC project, it is designed to be integrated with outside libraries and projects. Here are some of core initial features. ####Editor The text editor component contains the active buffers in tabs. A tab is opened by double clicking a file node in the file tree. The SketchPad text area is built on the RSyntaxTextArea library which supports the majority of features popular IDE's that Eclipse and NetBeans do. While the features are too many to list some include: syntax highlight for almost 30 languages, auto-completion and dumb completion, search and replace, gutters, bracket matching, and a large library of macro recordable actions for manipulating buffers. Currently the main attributes are configurable from the config/default.clj file, which contains user preferences. Tabs can be navigated with cmd+alt+left/right and closed with cmd+w. ####File tree Standard file tree for opening, closing, and creating projects and files. Can be hidden with cmd+1 ####REPL From manipulating buffers and creating executable macros, to managing project file structures and Leiningen projects, the SketchPad editor REPL is a powerful tool for working with Clojure projects. The editor REPL defaults to load the sketchpad.user namespace, which provides functions for interacting with projects. Project repls will ultimately be created in outside processes via Leiningen, nrepl, and pomegranate. Can be hidden with cmd+2 ####User namespace The goal is to have the user namespace provide access and functionality as powerful as vim and emacs but in digestible Clojure code. Scripting macros and custom tools is simple and logical. Since SketchPad is written in Clojure, the user namespace can also deal directly with Leiningen projects, the editor application it self, and much more. ####Projects and Leiningen This part of the project is still young but will be a central cog in the SketchPad architecture. Leiningen has quickly become one the most popular Clojure project management tools and with the release of 2.0 it will only be more widely used. The goal is to leverage all of the Leiningen features from managing dependencies and projects to publishing projects to clojars all from SketchPad and in Clojure.
