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3 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
4 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
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35157 | 6 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
7 decent single definition of RTF?] | |
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9 * Implement other text formatting properties. |
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10 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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11 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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12 Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
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13 same value of this property. |
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14 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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32947 | 16 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
17 probably needs some primitive support. | |
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25853 | 19 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
20 different parts of a buffer. | |
21 | |
22 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
23 output to a different filter. | |
24 | |
25 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
26 on text properties in the error message lines. | |
27 | |
28 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
29 useful sense). | |
30 | |
31 * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
32 | |
33 * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
34 so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
35 | |
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36 * Add a way for macro definitions to provide info to edebug |
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37 so it can handle them right. |
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25853 | 39 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
32947 | 40 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
41 Love started on this.] | |
25853 | 42 |
32947 | 43 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
44 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
25853 | 45 |
46 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
47 for undoing. | |
48 | |
49 * Change the Windows NT menu code | |
50 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
51 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
52 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
53 | |
54 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
55 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
56 thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
57 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
27949 | 58 |
59 * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean. | |
29696 | 60 |
32947 | 61 * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
62 | |
63 * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or | |
64 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's | |
33827 | 65 a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist, |
32947 | 66 ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion, |
67 delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu, | |
68 expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various | |
69 modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight | |
70 [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, | |
71 mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be | |
72 interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt | |
73 [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode | |
74 [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce, | |
75 bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, | |
76 spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], | |
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77 pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); |
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78 other progmodes, probably in separate manual. |
32947 | 79 |
80 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs | |
81 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
82 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
83 missed. | |
31733 | 84 |
32947 | 85 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
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86 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
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87 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? |
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88 what else ? |
32947 | 89 |
90 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
91 an example how to do part of this. | |
92 | |
93 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
94 macros in cl-macs. | |
95 | |
96 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
97 | |
98 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
99 | |
100 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
101 properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
102 | |
103 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
104 | |
105 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
106 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
107 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
108 | |
109 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
33076 | 110 |
111 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
112 automatically. | |
113 | |
114 * Update the FAQ. | |
115 | |
33253 | 116 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
117 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
33471 | 118 |
119 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
120 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
121 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
122 | |
35583 | 123 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
124 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
125 holidays... | |
33827 | 126 |
127 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
128 the Boehm collector.) | |
33867 | 129 |
34333 | 130 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
33867 | 131 |
132 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
133 | |
134 * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window | |
135 when the mouse enters it. | |
136 | |
34029 | 137 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
34333 | 138 |
139 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
34675 | 140 Using libdnd might be a good start. |
141 | |
142 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
143 be only full columns/lines. | |
34749 | 144 |
145 * Add horizontal scroll bars. | |
35157 | 146 |
147 * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful | |
36084 | 148 things. [The integration is partly done.] |
35318 | 149 |
150 * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's | |
151 size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
36084 | 152 |
153 * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. | |
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155 * Remove the special treatment of binary files by DOS and Windows ports. |
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156 They should use find-file-literally and `no-conversion' instead. |
37111 | 157 |
158 * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental | |
37374 | 159 compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
160 programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
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162 * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". |
37923 | 163 |
164 * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
165 another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
166 | |
38543 | 167 * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
168 Emacs. | |
39373 | 169 |
170 * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
39900 | 171 |
172 * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. |