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Of the three general schemes for implementing undo/redo that I can think of - namely:

1. Use the Cocoa text system's built-in support

2. Use an NSUndoManager to track changes to the buffer/textstorage

3. Do it all at the lisp level

I think that either (2) or (3) would be the most attractive.

There are a number of problems with the graphic components of text windows in the IDE that make it look cobbled together rather than like a real cocoa application.

1. Three of the windows corners are rounded and one is square. (The bottom left is the square one.) Either all four should be rounded (like windows in the Finder, for example), or the top two should be rounded and the bottom two square (like windows in the Terminal, for example).

2. The resize tab in the bottom left corner is large and gray. If you use this type of large gray resize tab, the gray region should extend across the whole bottom of the window (cf the Finder, Safari, etc). Otherwise you have a gray box that doesn't match up with the width of the vertical scrollbar sitting right on top of it. If you don't want a gray bar going across the bottom of the window, you should use the small white resize tab (cf the Terminal application).

3. The modeline is 2-dimensional (flat) and looks strange next to the 2.5-d horizontal scrollbar region. Those two regions should have the same look.

One way to address these would be to move the modeline down into the region to the left of the resize box. Make that region shadowed gray all the way across (cf Finder windows, which put file count and available space in the gray region at the bottom of the window). Make the horizontal scrollbar take the full width of the window. I'd also try having the modeline be roman rather than italic font.

All this applies to the listener, too.

Incremental search (control-s and control-r) currently moves the point to the found text, but it doesn't highlight the found text. It would be nice if it highlighted the found text. For bonus points, highlight all the occurrences of found text in the window (using a distinct highlight for the occurrence where the point is).

I'm calling this an enhancement, but it might be considered a defect, at least the first part.