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(vc-default-backend, vc-path, vc-consult-headers):
(vc-mistrust-permissions, vc-keep-workfiles): Customization
variables, moved here from vc.el.
(vc-trunk-p, vc-minor-revision, vc-branch-part): Moved to vc.el.
(vc-backend): Renamed from vc-backend-deduce. Callers changed.
(vc-match-substring, vc-lock-file, vc-parse-buffer, vc-master-info):
(vc-log-info, vc-consult-rcs-headers, vc-fetch-properties):
(vc-backend-subdirectory-name, vc-locking-user, vc-true-locking-user):
(vc-latest-version, vc-your-latest-version, vc-branch-version):
(vc-workfile-version): Functions moved here from vc.el.
(vc-log-info): Log program is no longer called through vc-do-command,
to avoid including the lengthy vc-do-command here. It is done
directly through call-process now. Removed obsolete parameter LAST.
(vc-status): Replaced by the much simpler version that gets the
information from the file properties. Removed the obsolete
parameter vc-type.
(vc-parse-buffer): changed format of PATTERNS. Each pattern is now a
list of 2 to 3 elements, the first being the pattern, the remaining
ones the numbers of subexpressions to refer to.
(vc-cvs-status): New per-file property, only used in the CVS case.
(vc-cvs-status): New function.
(vc-log-info): Adapted to new version of vc-parse-buffer
(vc-fetch-properties): Adapted to new version of vc-parse-buffer.
Better search regexp for CVS latest version.
(vc-log-info): Search for branch version only in the RCS case,
since this doesn't make sense for SCCS or CVS.
(vc-fetch-properties): CVS case: set vc-cvs-status.
(vc-locking-user): CVS case: use vc-cvs-status to determine if
the file is up-to-date, thus avoiding an expensive call to
vc-workfile-unchanged-p.
(vc-mode-line): Re-activated the code that makes the buffer read-only
if the work file is unchanged. But the status of the work file
is now determined by looking at the already-computed mode string.
author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> |
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2251 | 1 Things useful to do for GNU Emacs: |
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3 * Primitive for random access insertion of part of a file. | |
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5 * Making I/O streams for files, so that read and prin1 can | |
6 be used on files directly. The I/O stream itself would | |
7 serve as a function to read or write one character. | |
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9 * If a file you can't write is in a directory you can write, | |
10 make sure it works to modify and save this file. | |
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12 * Make dired's commands handle correctly the case where | |
13 ls has listed several subdirectories' contents. | |
14 It needs to be able to tell which directory each file | |
15 is really in, by searching backward for the line | |
16 which identifies the start of a directory. | |
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18 * Add more dired commands, such as sorting (use the | |
19 sort utility through call-process-region). | |
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21 * Make display.c record inverse-video-ness on | |
22 a character by character basis. Then make non-full-screen-width | |
23 mode lines inverse video, and display the marked location in | |
24 inverse video. | |
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26 * VMS code to list a file directory. Make dired work. | |
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28 Long range: |
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30 Ideas for extending GNU Emacs to deal with arbitrary character sets. |
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32 I would like GNU Emacs to be extended to handle all the world's alphabets |
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33 and word signs. I don't expect to have time to do such a thing in the next |
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34 few years, so here are my ideas on the best way to do it. |
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36 * Each graphic is represented by a sequence of ordinary 8-bit characters. |
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38 * All the characters that make up such a sequence have codes >= 0200. |
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40 * The first character of such a sequence is between 0200 and 0237. |
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42 * The remaining characters of such a sequence are all 0240 or higher. |
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44 * The first character of the sequence determines the number of characters |
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45 in the sequence. Thus, 0200...0207 could start two-character sequences, |
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46 0210...0227 could start three-character sequences, and 0230 could start |
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47 four-character sequences. (Codes 0231...0237 would be reserved.) |
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49 * Several common alphabets, and some mathematical symbols, would get |
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50 two-character sequences. (Probably Greek, Russian, Hebrew(?), Arabic(?), |
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51 Korean, and Japanese kana). The remaining alphabets, and some versions of |
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52 Chinese, would get three-character sequences. Other sets of Chinese |
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53 characters would get four-character sequences. |
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55 Each country that uses Chinese characters has its own standard character |
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56 set, and it is not easy to correlate them to avoid overlap. So there may |
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57 need to be several sets of Chinese characters. That is why they need so |
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58 much code space. |
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60 True support for Hebrew and Arabic requires dealing with the problem of |
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61 writing direction for mixed text; I don't know what to do for that. |
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63 * The functions that use syntax table would determine the |
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64 syntax of a sequence from its first character. |
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66 * Functions in indent.c for computing widths and columns would |
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67 determine the width of a sequence from its first character. |
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68 So would display routines. |
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70 * Only a few other editing routines would need any change. In |
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71 particular, searching and regexp matching might not need any change. |
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73 * Most of the work required would be in redisplay. The only case that |
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74 needs to be supported is with X windows, since ordinary terminals |
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75 can't display all these characters anyway. |
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77 * There might need to be code to translate files from this format |
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78 to whatever format is typically stored on disk. |
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81 I would be very unhappy with half-measures, such as support for |
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82 Japanese only. |
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