Documenting desired functionality for any Robot Framework IDE or Editor.

Functionality-For-Robot-Framework-IDE-Editor.rst

Functionality for Robot Framework IDE or Editor
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Running list of functionality and features that make up a useful set of tools within an IDE or Editor.

Functionality I would like to see
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- RTL support
- show formatting marks (similar to what one sees in Word or LibreOffice)

Gauge
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In article entitled "Why we built Gauge", Zabil Maliackal outlines some of the functionality the team implemented, using a language server, for gauge 

    Gauge also runs as a Language Server and uses the protocol to add powerful editing features for Gauge specifications like
    
        Auto completion
        Step and implementation references.
        Refactoring
        Running specifications and scenarios (within the IDE)
        Locating a the step’s implementation
        Listing all scenarios and quickly jump to it (like symbols in a programming language)
        Displaying errors and warnings while writing specifications
        Formatting
    
    for a growing list of IDE’s that support Language Server Protocol like Visual Studio Code, Sublime, Atom, Eclipse, Vim, Emacs or even edit in a browser.
 
 Language Server
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 http://langserver.org/
 https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specification