annotate etc/TODO @ 46211:6639617e399f

Simplify the reference to Octave mode.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Sun, 07 Jul 2002 11:53:37 +0000
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3 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
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4 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
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5 aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
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6 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted packages, please be
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7 prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
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8 to the FSF.
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10 Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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12 * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem
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13 for the use of the preferred coding systems.
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15 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
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16 on text properties in the error message lines.
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18 Important features:
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20 * Write an INTRO_CVS file with basic instructions how to build emacs
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21 from CVS (make bootstrap), some information on how the config
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22 and build system is tied together, and all sorts of tips and tricks
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23 (FAQ) which may be of interest to new (and old) emacs hackers.
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26 display a font as a sample, etc.
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29 decent single definition of RTF?]
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31 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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32 probably needs some primitive support.
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34 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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35 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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37 * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility.
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39 * Implement other text formatting properties.
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40 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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41 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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42 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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43 same value of this property.
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44 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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46 * Make movemail work with IMAP.
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48 * Internationalize Emacs's messages.
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50 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
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52 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
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57 * Move fringe to be displayed between display margins and text area.
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58 [KFS is looking into this].
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62 * Make fringe bitmaps user configurable. Maybe add ability to add
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63 additional bitmaps to the fringe from lisp.
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65 Other features we would like:
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67 * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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68 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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69 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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72 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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73 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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74 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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77 different parts of a buffer.
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80 output to a different filter.
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86 desktops.
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89 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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90 Love started on this.]
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93 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
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96 for undoing.
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98 * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
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99 They split off a few years ago through negligance.
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103 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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104 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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106 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
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107 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
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108 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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109 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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112 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the
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113 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
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114 missed.
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117 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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118 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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119 what else ?
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121 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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122 an example how to do part of this.
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124 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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125 macros in cl-macs.
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127 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
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129 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
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131 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
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133 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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134 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
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135 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
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137 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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139 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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140 automatically.
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142 * Update the FAQ.
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144 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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145 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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147 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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148 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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149 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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151 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
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152 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
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153 holidays, quoting characters?,...
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155 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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156 the Boehm collector.)
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158 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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160 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
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161 Using libdnd might be a good start.
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163 * Add horizontal scroll bars.
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165 * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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169 things. [The integration is partly done.]
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174 make-network-process instead of using an external program.
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176 * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
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177 compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
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178 programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.
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180 * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".
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182 * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in
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183 another buffer but not written yet, print a warning.
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185 * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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186 Emacs.
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188 * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
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190 * Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
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191 XRender/Freetype.
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193 * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane.
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195 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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196 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
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197
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198 * Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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199 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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200 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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201 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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202 attributes.
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203
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204 * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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205 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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206 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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207 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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208
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209 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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210 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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211 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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212 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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213 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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214 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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215 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
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216 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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217 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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218 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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219 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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220 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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221 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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222 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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223 probably in separate manual.