Collection of good ideas

Innovative ideas

Crazy ideas is wanted. Who wants a boring project?
Multicolor fonts can bring a new dimension to syntax-hiliting. It has to look tastefull and good of cause. If you realy want you can use your good old amiga-bitmap fonts ;-)
Texturemapping adds another dimension, when you are inside a comment you see one texture, preprocessor you see another.. and so on. You can look at your "girl of the day" or what you may like. Demoefx and filtering would be a great show off.
Why not allow the arrow-keys to move diagonally? [arrow_left+arrow_up = left+up]
During assember coding, hiliting of HOW efficient (well-paired) your code is, and which instructions/registers that causes the inefficency. [assember-insight]
Allow 2 persons remotely to work on the same file, while they are using voiceoverIP.
Web interface through which you can configure AEditor.
Aspect oriented programming. Differnt aspects is typicaly spread out over several files. In a normal editor it can be hard to follow exactly what is going on. A modern IDE should make it easier to gain an overview of the different aspects (browsable, overview).
It had this feature of diffeerent edit modes: character, word, line, sentence, etc. If you swtich to a mode (using F#-key) then all your actions acted accordingly. For example, in word mode, if you hit delete it would delete the work you were on. You get the idea.