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3 * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem |
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4 for the use of the preferred coding systems. |
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6 * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
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7 display a font as a sample, etc. |
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9 * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns |
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10 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. |
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11 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. |
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35157 | 13 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
14 decent single definition of RTF?] | |
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16 * Implement other text formatting properties. |
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17 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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18 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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19 Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
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20 same value of this property. |
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21 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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32947 | 23 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
24 probably needs some primitive support. | |
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25853 | 26 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
27 different parts of a buffer. | |
28 | |
29 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
30 output to a different filter. | |
31 | |
32 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
33 on text properties in the error message lines. | |
34 | |
35 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
36 useful sense). | |
37 | |
38 * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
39 | |
40 * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
41 so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
42 | |
43 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file | |
32947 | 44 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
45 Love started on this.] | |
25853 | 46 |
32947 | 47 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
48 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
25853 | 49 |
50 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
51 for undoing. | |
52 | |
53 * Change the Windows NT menu code | |
54 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
55 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
56 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
57 | |
58 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
59 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
60 thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
61 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
27949 | 62 |
32947 | 63 * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
64 | |
65 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs | |
66 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
67 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
68 missed. | |
31733 | 69 |
32947 | 70 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
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71 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
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72 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? |
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73 what else ? |
32947 | 74 |
75 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
76 an example how to do part of this. | |
77 | |
78 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
79 macros in cl-macs. | |
80 | |
81 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
82 | |
83 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
84 | |
85 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
86 properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
87 | |
88 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
89 | |
90 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
91 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
92 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
93 | |
94 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
33076 | 95 |
96 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
97 automatically. | |
98 | |
99 * Update the FAQ. | |
100 | |
33253 | 101 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
102 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
33471 | 103 |
104 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
105 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
106 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
107 | |
35583 | 108 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
109 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
110 holidays... | |
33827 | 111 |
112 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
113 the Boehm collector.) | |
33867 | 114 |
34333 | 115 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
33867 | 116 |
117 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
118 | |
34029 | 119 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
34333 | 120 |
121 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
34675 | 122 Using libdnd might be a good start. |
123 | |
124 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
125 be only full columns/lines. | |
34749 | 126 |
127 * Add horizontal scroll bars. | |
35157 | 128 |
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129 * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
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130 size and its position from lines instead of characters. |
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131 |
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132 * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility. |
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35157 | 134 * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful |
36084 | 135 things. [The integration is partly done.] |
35318 | 136 |
36084 | 137 * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
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37111 | 139 * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
37374 | 140 compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
141 programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
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143 * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". |
37923 | 144 |
145 * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
146 another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
147 | |
38543 | 148 * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
149 Emacs. | |
39373 | 150 |
151 * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
39900 | 152 |
153 * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. | |
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155 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector |
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156 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. |
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158 * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
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159 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). |
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160 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not |
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161 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. |
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163 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, |
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164 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, |
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165 completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, |
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166 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], |
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167 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit |
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168 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], |
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169 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, |
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170 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from |
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171 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, |
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172 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, |
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173 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, |
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174 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, |
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175 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, |
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176 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, |
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