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Adapt sectioning in Info to the node structure.
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3 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we |
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4 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be |
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5 aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do |
51647 | 6 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be |
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10 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features: |
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12 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment, |
52413 | 13 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of |
14 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It | |
15 ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a | |
16 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring. | |
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18 * Important features: |
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20 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
49605 | 21 display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual |
22 font selection for Emacs 22.] | |
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24 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
52780 | 25 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at |
26 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] | |
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28 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
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31 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling |
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32 properly with variable-pitch faces. |
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34 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows |
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37 ** Implement other text formatting properties. |
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38 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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39 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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41 same value of this property. |
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42 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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44 ** Make movemail work with IMAP. |
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46 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages. [Note that this is of limited |
49605 | 47 use until the menus can display multilingual text. It also doesn't |
48 address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially | |
49 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. -- fx] | |
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51 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This |
49605 | 52 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly |
53 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the | |
54 pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific | |
55 locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary | |
51647 | 56 text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] [The gtk |
57 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as | |
58 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.] | |
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60 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can |
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63 * Other features we would like: |
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65 ** ange-ftp |
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66 *** understand sftp |
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67 *** ignore some irrelevant errors (like IPv6 and kerberos thingies). |
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68 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified. |
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70 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations. |
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71 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up |
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72 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 -> |
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73 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ... |
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75 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables. |
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76 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'. |
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77 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings). |
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78 *** support for infix operators (with precedence). |
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79 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp. |
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80 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified |
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81 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment |
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82 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way. |
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83 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state. |
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85 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns |
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86 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. |
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87 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. |
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89 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used) |
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92 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix. |
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94 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
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95 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing |
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96 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text |
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99 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error |
25853 | 100 output to a different filter. |
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102 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
25853 | 103 useful sense). |
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106 desktops. |
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108 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
32947 | 109 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
110 Love started on this.] | |
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112 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
51317 | 113 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned. |
114 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG | |
115 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] | |
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117 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it |
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120 ** Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. |
49605 | 121 They split off a few years ago through negligence. |
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123 ** Change the Windows NT menu code |
25853 | 124 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids |
125 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
126 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
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128 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
129 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
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25853 | 131 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. |
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133 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs |
51317 | 134 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other |
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135 packages which might go in and have been missed. |
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137 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
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138 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
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139 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? |
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142 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as |
32947 | 143 an example how to do part of this. |
144 | |
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145 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler |
32947 | 146 macros in cl-macs. |
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148 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA, |
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56410 | 283 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize |
284 only the variable `current-language-environment'. | |
285 | |
286 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit | |
287 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language | |
288 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale | |
289 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is | |
290 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system. | |
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292 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print. | |
293 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in | |
294 addition to ASCII. | |
295 | |
296 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts. | |
297 | |
298 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari). | |
299 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables | |
300 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local | |
301 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly | |
302 via Xft library). | |
303 | |
304 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use | |
305 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai). | |
306 | |
56410 | 307 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server |
308 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method | |
309 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external | |
310 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM. | |
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315 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed -- |
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319 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable. |
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321 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations |
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322 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior |
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323 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el generic. |
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324 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, ... |
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