annotate etc/TODO @ 73109:4a02fd618570

* simple.el (line-move-finish): Handle corner case for fields in continued lines. (line-move-1): Remove flawed test for that case.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:58:12 +0000
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Ignore whitespace changes - Everywhere: Within whitespace: At end of lines:
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1 Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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3 Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
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4 Free software Foundation, Inc.
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5 See the end of the file for copying permissions.
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7 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
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8 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
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9 aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
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10 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
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11 prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
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12 to the FSF.
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14 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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16 ** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
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17 the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
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18 a window doesn't select it.
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20 ** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
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21 but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
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22 current buffer.
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24 ** describe-face should show an example of text in the face.
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26 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
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27 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
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29 ** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
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30 the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
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32 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
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34 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
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36 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
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38 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
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39 as well as overlapping matches.
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41 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
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42 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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43 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
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44 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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45 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
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48 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
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49 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
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51 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
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52 a specified time).
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54 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
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55 variables whose values are currently hidden.
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58 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
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59 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
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60 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
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62 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
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66 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
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67 using a heuristic of some kind?
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69 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
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70 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
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72 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
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73 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
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74 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
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75 without menu and tool bar lines.
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80 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
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82 ** Modify allout.el to use overlays, like outline.el.
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84 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
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87 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
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88 recording which file the latest definition came from.
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90 * Important features:
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92 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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93 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
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94 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
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100 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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102 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
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103 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
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109 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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110 and/or add a variable to the list.
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112 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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113 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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116 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
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117 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
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119 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
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120 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
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122 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
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123 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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124 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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125 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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126 same value of this property.
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127 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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129 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
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131 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
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132 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
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134 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
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136 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
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137 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
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138 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
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141 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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143 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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145 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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146 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
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147 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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148 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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149 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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150 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
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151 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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153 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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154 be only full columns/lines.
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157
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158 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
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159 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
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160 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
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161 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
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162
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163 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
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165 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
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166 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
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167
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168 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
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169 and put some other errors under it.
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170
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171 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
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172 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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174 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
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176 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
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177 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
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178 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
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179 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
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180 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
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181
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182 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
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183 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
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184 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
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185 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
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186 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
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187 customization buffers.
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188
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189 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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190 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
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191 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
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192 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
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193 use to view the advice.
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195 ** ange-ftp
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196 *** understand sftp
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197 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
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198 messages.
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199
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200 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
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202 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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203 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
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204 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
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205 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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207 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
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208 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
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209 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
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210 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
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211 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
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212 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
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213 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
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214 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
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215 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
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217 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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219 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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220 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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221 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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223 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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224 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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225 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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226 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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228 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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229 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
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230 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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231 where one language is embedded in another language. See
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232 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
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233 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
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235 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
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236 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
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237 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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239 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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240 output to a different filter.
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242 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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245 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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246 desktops.
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248 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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249 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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250 Love started on this.]
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252 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
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254 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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255 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
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256 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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257 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
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258 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
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260 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
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261 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
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263 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
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265 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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270 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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271 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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273 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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274 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
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275 packages which might go in and have been missed.
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277 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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278 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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279 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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280 what else ?
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282 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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285 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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286 macros in cl-macs.
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288 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
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289 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
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290 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
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292 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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293 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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295 ** Support simultaneous tty and X frames. [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs
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298 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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299 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
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300 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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302 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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303 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
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304 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
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305 warnings.
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307 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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309 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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310 automatically.
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312 ** Update the FAQ.
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314 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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315 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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317 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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318 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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319 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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321 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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322 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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323 this.]
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325 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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327 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
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329 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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331 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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332 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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334 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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335 Emacs.
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337 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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338 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
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340 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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341 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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342 thought this was feasible.]
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344 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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345 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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346 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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348 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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349 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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350 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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351 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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352 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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353 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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354 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
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356 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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357 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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358 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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360 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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361 encodings.
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363 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
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365 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
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366 when the body only calls primitives.
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368 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
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370 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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371 colors of the applicable faces.
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373 ** Face remapping.
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375 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
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377 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
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378 or the end of the buffer.
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380 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
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381 XRender/Freetype.
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383 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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384 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
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385 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
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387 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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388 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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389 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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390 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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391 attributes.
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393 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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394 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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395 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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396 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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398 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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399 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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400 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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401 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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402 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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405 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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407 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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408 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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409 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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410 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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419 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
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421 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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424 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
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427 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
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428 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
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429 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
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430 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
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431 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
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432 and from the calls.
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433
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434 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
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435 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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437 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
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438 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
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439 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
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440 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
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441 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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442
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443 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
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444 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
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445 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
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446 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
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447 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
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448 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
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449 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
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450 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
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451 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
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452
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453 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
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454 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
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455 addition to ASCII.
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456
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457 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
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458
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459 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
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460 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
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461 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
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462 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
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463 via Xft library).
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465 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
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466 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
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468 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
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469 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
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470 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
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471 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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473 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
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474 but which can also be used as a modifier).
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476 ** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
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477 for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
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479 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
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480 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
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481 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
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482 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
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483 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
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485 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
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486 See thread
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487 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
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488 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
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489
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490 * Internal changes
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491
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492 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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493 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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494 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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495 this.]
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497 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
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499 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
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500 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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501 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
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502 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
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503 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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505 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
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506 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
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507 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
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508 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
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509 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
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510 data munging.
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512 ** Add "link" button class
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513 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
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514 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
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515 class to the standard "link" face.
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517 * Other known bugs:
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520 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
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523 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
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