# Roadmap for pinegrow. What's cooking? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 13, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/roadmap-for-pinegrow-whats-cooking/9129 "2024-09-13T10:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![travelgasm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.pinegrow.com/travelgasm/32/6408_2.png) [@travelgasm](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/travelgasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/roadmap-for-pinegrow-whats-cooking/9129/12 "2024-09-27T12:00:03Z")
> [@red-rosefields](#): > > Some folks treat it as a replacement for code editors like Espresso, VSCode, or Dreamweaver Yes, this is more along the lines of what I would like from Pinegrow; Espresso with a visual edit mode or Dreamweaver without the overbearing corporate overlord. Or a more modern, up-to-date BlueGriffon without all the bugs. Any of those would do. As is, I like Pinegrow in many respects — which is why I paid for it; to show my support — but I find myself having to switch over to other apps too often for really basic tasks — spell check, tables, look up the size of an image — and the visual editor mode losing links on copy-paste is a nightmare. It essentially makes editing impossible. I have never encountered an HTML editor that loses embedded links when you copy paste a block of text in a visual mode. 😱 I think highlighting the elements and requiring a double click makes it awkward and not fun for actual writing. Most HTML editors with a visual mode just create a new paragraph tag when you hit return when writing — BlueGriffon even has a preference where you can toggle this on or off — but Pinegrow doesn’t seem to do this consistently (in the middle of an existing block of text, for example). When it does create a new paragraph, it’s not on a new line in the code, either. 🙁 This part, from Pinegrow’s promo, I find awkward at best: > Use Pinegrow as a CMS for your static Html pages. Move elements around and double click on any element to edit its text content. Maybe I’m overlooking something. Espresso has a handy “X-ray” mode to turn element visibility/selection on or off in the real-time preview; which is perfect, except it can’t be edited visually at all. I’ll think about this a bit; maybe Pinegrow could do something similar in visual mode — structure visible and clickable or structure invisible and content clickable. As is, Pinegrow is just too much of a pain to use for writing; I find myself using other apps, but I’m optimistic it will get better going forward. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/roadmap-for-pinegrow-whats-cooking/9129)._