annotate etc/TODO @ 99782:6be2d2932794

Remove leading `*' from defcustom doc-strings. (vc-svn-program): Move defcustom to start. (vc-svn-create-repo, vc-svn-modify-change-comment): Use vc-svn-program rather than hard-coded "svn".
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1 Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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3 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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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 * Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
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16 suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
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18 ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
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20 ** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t.
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22 ** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
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24 ** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
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25 not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
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27 ** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
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29 ** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
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30 It can use the same icons as gud.
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32 ** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
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33 to use it.
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35 ** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
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36 of appropriate :type and :group.
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38 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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40 ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
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41 levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
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42 understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
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43 command it will use.
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45 I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
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46 mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
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47 for users to customize.
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49 ** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
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50 Use emacsclient later to open frames.
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53 variables section.
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55 ** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
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56 I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
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58 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
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60 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
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61 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
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63 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
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65 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
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66 For related problems consult the thread starting with
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67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
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69 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
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71 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
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72 as well as overlapping matches.
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74 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
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75 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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76 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
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77 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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78 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
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80 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
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81 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
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82 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
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84 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
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85 a specified time).
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87 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
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88 variables whose values are currently hidden.
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90 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
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91 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
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92 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
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93 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
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95 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
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97 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
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99 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
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100 using a heuristic of some kind?
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102 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
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103 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
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105 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
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106 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
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107 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
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108 without menu and tool bar lines.
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110 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
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111 and they should create Custom buffers.
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113 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
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115 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
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117 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
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119 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
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120 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
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121 recording which file the latest definition came from.
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123 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
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125 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
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126 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
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128 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
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129 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
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131 ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
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132 on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
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133 under the keys
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134 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
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135 and
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136 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
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137 where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
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139 ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
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148 dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
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150 ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
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151 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
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155 ** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
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158 had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
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159 beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
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160 advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
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162 Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
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163 because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
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164 Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
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165 never really made it work for this.
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167 Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
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169 ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
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170 using code like that of customize-groups.
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172 ** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
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173 errors.
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175 ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
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176 indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
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177 Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
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178 of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
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179 scroll bars are extensible.
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181 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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182 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
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183 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
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185 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
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187 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
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189 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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190 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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191 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
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192 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
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193 very early stages.
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195 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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196 probably needs some primitive support.
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198 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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199 and/or add a variable to the list.
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201 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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202 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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204 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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205 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
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206 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
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208 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
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209 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
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211 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
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212 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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213 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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214 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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215 same value of this property.
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216 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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218 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
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220 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
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221 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
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223 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
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225 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
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226 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
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227 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
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229 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
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230 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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232 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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234 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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235 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
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236 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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237 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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238 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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239 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
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240 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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242 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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243 be only full columns/lines.
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247 ** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
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248 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
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249 properly.
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251 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
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252 from the emacsclient process.
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253 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
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254 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
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256 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
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257 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
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259 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
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261 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
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262 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
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264 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
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265 and put some other errors under it.
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267 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
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268 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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270 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
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272 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
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274 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
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275 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
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276 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
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277 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
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278 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
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281 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
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282 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
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283 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
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284 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
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285 customization buffers.
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286
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287 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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288 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
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289 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
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290 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
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291 use to view the advice.
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293 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
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295 ** ange-ftp
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296 *** understand sftp
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297 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
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298 messages.
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299
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300 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
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302 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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303 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
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304 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
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305 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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307 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
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308 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
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309 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
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310 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
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311 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
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312 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
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313 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
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314 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
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315 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
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316
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317 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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319 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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320 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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321 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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323 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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324 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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325 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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326 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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327
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328 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
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329 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
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330 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
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331 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
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332 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
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333 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
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334
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335 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
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336 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
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337 modifiers.
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338
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339 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
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340 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
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341 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
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342 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
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343 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
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344 downgrade to versions that require activation.
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346 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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347 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
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348 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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349 where one language is embedded in another language. See
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350 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
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351 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken by others.
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353 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
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354 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
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355 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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357 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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358 output to a different filter.
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360 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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363 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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364 desktops.
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366 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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367 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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368 Love started on this.]
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370 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
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372 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
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373 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
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375 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
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377 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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378 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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381 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
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382 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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383 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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385 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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386 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
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387 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
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388 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
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389 have been missed.
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391 ** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
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392 Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
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393 python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
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394 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
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395 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
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396 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
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397 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
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399 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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400 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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401 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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402 what else ?
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404 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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405 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
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407 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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408 macros in cl-macs.
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410 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
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411 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
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412 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
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414 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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417 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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419 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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422 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
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423 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
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424 warnings.
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426 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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428 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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429 automatically.
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431 ** Update the FAQ.
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433 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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434 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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436 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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437 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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438 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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439 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
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441 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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442 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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443 this.]
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445 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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447 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
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449 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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451 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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452 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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454 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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455 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
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456 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
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458 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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459 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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460 thought this was feasible.]
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462 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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463 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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464 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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466 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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467 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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468 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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469 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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470 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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471 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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473
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474 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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475 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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476 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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478 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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479 encodings.
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481 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
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483 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
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484 when the body only calls primitives.
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486 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
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488 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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489 colors of the applicable faces.
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491 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
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493 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
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494 or the end of the buffer.
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496 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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497 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
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498 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
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499
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500 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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501 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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502 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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503 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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504 attributes.
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506 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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507 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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508 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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509 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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510
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511 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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512 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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513 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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514 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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515 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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516 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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517 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
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518 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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519 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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520 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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521 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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522 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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523 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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524 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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525 probably in separate manual.
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527 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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528 the XPMs so that the color versions work generally. (Requires care
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529 with the color used for the transparent regions.)
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531 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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532 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
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533 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
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534 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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536 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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537 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
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540 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
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541 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
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542 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
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544 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
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545 and from the calls.
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548 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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557 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
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558 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
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559 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
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560 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
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561 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
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562 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
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563 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
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564 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
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565
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566 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
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567 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
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568 addition to ASCII.
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569
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570 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
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571
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572 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
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573 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
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574
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575 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
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576 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
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577 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
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578 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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580 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
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581 but which can also be used as a modifier).
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582
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583 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
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584 Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of
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585 lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face.
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586
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587 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
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588 See thread
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589 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
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590 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
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592 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
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593 See thread
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594 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
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596 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
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597 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
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598 the window associated with that modeline.
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599 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
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600
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601 * Internal changes
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602
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603 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
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604 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
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606 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
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607 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
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608 one to use when terminating the selection.
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610 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
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611 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
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612 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
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613
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614 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
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615 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
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616 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
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617
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618 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
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619 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
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620 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
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621 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
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622 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
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623
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624 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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625 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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626 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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627 this.]
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628
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629 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
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630
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631 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
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632 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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633 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
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634 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
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635 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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636
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637 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11]
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638 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
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639 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
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640 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
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641 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
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642 data munging.
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643
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644 ** Add "link" button class
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645 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
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646 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
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647 class to the standard "link" face.
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649 * Other known bugs:
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651 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
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653 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
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654 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
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655
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657 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
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660 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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662 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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663 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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664 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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665 (at your option) any later version.
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667 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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668 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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669 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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670 GNU General Public License for more details.
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671
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672 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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675 ;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036