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1 Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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8 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
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9 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
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10 aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
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11 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
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12 prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
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13 to the FSF.
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15 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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17 ** Fix compilation when Xaw3d libraries are present but libxaw is not.
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18 In new X11 versions, xaw3dg-dev does not depend on libxaw-dev, so the
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19 latter need not be installed. As a result, all the source files that
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20 look for include files in X11/Xaw should look in X11/Xaw3d if we are
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21 using Xaw3d.
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23 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
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25 ** Avoid using "iff" in doc strings.
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27 ** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
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28 the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
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29 a window doesn't select it.
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31 ** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
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32 but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
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33 current buffer.
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35 ** describe-face should show an example of text in the face.
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37 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
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38 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
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40 ** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
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41 the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
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43 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
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45 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
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47 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
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49 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
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50 as well as overlapping matches.
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52 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
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53 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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54 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
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55 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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56 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
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58 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
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59 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
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60 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
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62 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
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63 a specified time).
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65 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
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66 variables whose values are currently hidden.
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68 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
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69 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
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70 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
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71 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
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73 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
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75 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
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77 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
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78 using a heuristic of some kind?
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80 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
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81 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
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83 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
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84 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
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85 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
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86 without menu and tool bar lines.
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88 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
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89 and they should create Custom buffers.
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91 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
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93 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
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95 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
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97 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
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98 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
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99 recording which file the latest definition came from.
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101 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
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103 ** Improve configure's treatment of NON_GNU_CPP on Solaris.
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104 (patch available for after Emacs 22)
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106 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
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107 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
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109 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
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110 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
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112 * Important features:
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114 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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115 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
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116 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
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118 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
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120 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
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122 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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123 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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124 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
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125 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
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126 very early stages.
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128 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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129 probably needs some primitive support.
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131 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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132 and/or add a variable to the list.
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134 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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135 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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137 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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138 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
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139 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
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142 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
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144 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
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145 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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146 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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147 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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148 same value of this property.
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149 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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151 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
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153 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
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154 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
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156 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
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158 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
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159 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
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160 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
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162 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
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163 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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165 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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167 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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168 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
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169 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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170 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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171 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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172 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
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173 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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175 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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176 be only full columns/lines.
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178 * Other features we would like:
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179
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180 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
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181 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
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182 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
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183 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
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185 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
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186
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187 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
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188 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
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189
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190 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
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191 and put some other errors under it.
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192
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193 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
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194 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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196 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
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197
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198 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
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200 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
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201 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
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202 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
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203 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
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204 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
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206 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
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207 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
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208 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
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209 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
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210 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
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211 customization buffers.
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213 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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214 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
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215 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
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216 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
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217 use to view the advice.
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219 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
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221 ** ange-ftp
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222 *** understand sftp
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223 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
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224 messages.
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226 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
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228 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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229 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
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230 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
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231 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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233 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
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234 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
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235 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
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236 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
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237 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
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238 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
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239 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
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240 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
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241 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
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243 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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245 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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246 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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247 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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249 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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250 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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251 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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252 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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254 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
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255 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
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256 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
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257 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
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258 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
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259 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
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261 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
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262 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
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263 modifiers.
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265 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
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266 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
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267 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
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268 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
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269 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
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270 downgrade to versions that require activation.
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272 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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273 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
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274 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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275 where one language is embedded in another language. See
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277 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
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279 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
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280 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
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281 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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283 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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284 output to a different filter.
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286 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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289 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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290 desktops.
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292 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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293 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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294 Love started on this.]
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296 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
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298 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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299 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
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300 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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301 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
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302 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
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304 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
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305 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
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307 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
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309 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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310 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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314 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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315 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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317 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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318 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
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319 packages which might go in and have been missed.
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321 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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322 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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323 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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324 what else ?
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326 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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327 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
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329 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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330 macros in cl-macs.
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331
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332 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
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333 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
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334 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
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336 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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337 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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338
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339 ** Support simultaneous tty and X frames. [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs
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340 at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.]
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342 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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343 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
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344 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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346 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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347 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
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348 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
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349 warnings.
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351 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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353 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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354 automatically.
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356 ** Update the FAQ.
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358 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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359 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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361 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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362 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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363 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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365 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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366 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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367 this.]
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369 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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371 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
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373 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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375 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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376 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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378 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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379 Emacs.
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381 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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382 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
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384 ** Display images with alpha channels, such as png, with the current
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385 background color of whatever frame it is displayed in. Currently, we
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387 that is unspecified, the background color of the frame in which the
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388 image was first created. Ideally, the image should display the
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389 background color of whichever frame it is being displayed in. The
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391 object for each different background color.
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393 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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394 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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395 thought this was feasible.]
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397 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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398 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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399 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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401 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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402 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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403 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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404 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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405 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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406 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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407 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
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409 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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410 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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411 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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413 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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414 encodings.
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419 when the body only calls primitives.
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424 colors of the applicable faces.
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426 ** Face remapping.
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428 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
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430 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
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431 or the end of the buffer.
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434 XRender/Freetype.
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437 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
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438 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
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440 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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441 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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442 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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443 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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444 attributes.
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446 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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447 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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448 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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449 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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450
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451 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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452 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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453 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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454 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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455 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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456 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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457 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
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458 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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459 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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460 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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461 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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462 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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463 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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464 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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465 probably in separate manual.
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467 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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468 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
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469 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
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471 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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472 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
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473 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
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474 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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476 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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477 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
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479 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
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480 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
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481 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
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482 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
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483 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
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484 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
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485 and from the calls.
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487 ** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
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488 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
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489 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
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490 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
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491 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
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492 such sizes.
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493
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494 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
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495 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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496
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497 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
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498 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
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499 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
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500 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
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501 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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503 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
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504 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
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505 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
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506 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
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507 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
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508 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
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509 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
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510 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
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511 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
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513 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
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514 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
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515 addition to ASCII.
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517 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
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519 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
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520 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
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521 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
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522 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
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523 via Xft library).
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524
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525 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
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526 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
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528 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
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529 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
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530 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
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531 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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536 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
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537 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
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538 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
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539 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
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540 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
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542 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
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543 See thread
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544 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
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545 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
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547 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
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548 See thread
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552
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553 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
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556 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
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557 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
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558 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
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560 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
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561 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
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562 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
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563
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564 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
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565 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
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566 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
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567 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
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568 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
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569
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570 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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571 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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572 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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573 this.]
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574
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575 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
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576
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577 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
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578 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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579 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
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580 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
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581 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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582
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583 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
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584 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
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585 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
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586 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
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587 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
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588 data munging.
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589
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590 ** Add "link" button class
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591 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
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592 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
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593 class to the standard "link" face.
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595 * Other known bugs:
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596
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597 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
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598 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
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599
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600 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
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601 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
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602
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603
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604 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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605
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606 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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607 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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608 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
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609 any later version.
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610
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611 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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612 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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613 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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614 GNU General Public License for more details.
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615
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616 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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617 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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618 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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619 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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620
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621 ;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036