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Revision: miles@gnu.org--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-28 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 180-191) - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 39-44) - Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 - Update from CVS
author Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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1 -*-outline-*-
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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
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6 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
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7 prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
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8 to the FSF.
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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,
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13 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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14 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
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15 ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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16 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
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18 ** Redefine define-generic-mode as a macro, so the compiler
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19 sees the definitions it generates.
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21 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
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22 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
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23 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
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25 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
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26 variables whose values are currently hidden.
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28 * Important features:
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30 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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31 display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual
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32 font selection for Emacs 23.]
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34 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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35 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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36 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]
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38 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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39 probably needs some primitive support.
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41 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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42 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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44 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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45 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
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46 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
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48 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
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49 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
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51 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
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52 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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53 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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54 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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55 same value of this property.
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56 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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58 ** Make movemail work with IMAP.
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60 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages. [Note that this is of limited
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61 use until the menus can display multilingual text. It also doesn't
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62 address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially
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63 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. -- fx]
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65 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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67 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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68 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
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69 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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70 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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71 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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72 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
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73 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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75 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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76 be only full columns/lines.
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78 * Other features we would like:
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80 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
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81 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
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82 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
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83 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
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84 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
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86 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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87 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like "
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88 [Function has advice]". It might look like
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89 (defun foo [Function has advice] (x y)
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90 The overlay could also be a button that you could use to view the advice.
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92 ** ange-ftp
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93 *** understand sftp
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94 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
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96 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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97 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
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98 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
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99 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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101 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
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102 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
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103 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
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104 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
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105 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
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106 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
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107 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
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108 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
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109 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
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111 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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113 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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114 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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115 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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117 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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118 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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119 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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120 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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122 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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123 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
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124 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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125 where one language is embedded in another language.
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127 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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128 output to a different filter.
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130 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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131 useful sense).
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133 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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134 desktops.
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137 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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140 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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141 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
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142 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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145 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
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146 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
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148 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
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150 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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151 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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155 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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156 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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158 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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159 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
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160 packages which might go in and have been missed.
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162 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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163 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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164 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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165 what else ?
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167 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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168 an example how to do part of this.
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170 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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171 macros in cl-macs.
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173 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
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174 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
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175 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
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177 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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178 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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180 ** Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
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182 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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183 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
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184 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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186 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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187 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
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188 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
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190 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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192 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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193 automatically.
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195 ** Update the FAQ.
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197 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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198 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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199
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200 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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201 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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202 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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204 ** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
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205 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
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206 holidays, quoting characters?,...
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208 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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209 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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210 this.]
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212 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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214 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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216 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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217 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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219 ** Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
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221 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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222 Emacs.
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224 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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225 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
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227 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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228 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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229 thought this was feasible.]
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231 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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232 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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233 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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235 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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236 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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237 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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238 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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239 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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240 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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241 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
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242
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243 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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244 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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245 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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247 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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248 encodings.
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249
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250 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
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252 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
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254 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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255 colors of the applicable faces.
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257 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
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258 XRender/Freetype.
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260 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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261 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
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263 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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264 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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265 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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266 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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267 attributes.
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269 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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270 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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271 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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272 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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274 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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275 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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276 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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277 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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278 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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279 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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281 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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282 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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283 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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284 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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285 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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286 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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287 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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288 probably in separate manual.
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290 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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291 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
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292 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
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294 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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295 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
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296 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
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297 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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298
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299 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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300 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
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302 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
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303 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
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304 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
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305 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
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306 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
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307 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
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308 and from the calls.
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310 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
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311 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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312
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313 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
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314 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
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315 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
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316 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
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317 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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319 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
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320 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
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321 addition to ASCII.
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322
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323 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
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324
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325 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
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326 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
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327 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
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328 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
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329 via Xft library).
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330
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331 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
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332 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
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334 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
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335 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
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336 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
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337 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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339 ** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
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340 for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
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342 * Internal changes
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344 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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345 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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346 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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347 this.]
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348
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349 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
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351 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
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352 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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353 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
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354 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
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355 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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357 ;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036