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(DOCUMENTATION): Remove message-mail, gnus-*
completing-read-multiple, mail-extract-address-components,
mail-mode, quail-define-package, save-buffer and
ucs-set-table-for-input from doc strings item (Done).
author | Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de> |
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date | Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:46:01 +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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10 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features: |
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19 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. |
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20 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a |
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25 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call. |
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27 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit |
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39 * Important features: |
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42 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at |
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43 multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.] |
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45 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster. |
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51 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
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54 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer |
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55 and/or add a variable to the list. |
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57 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling |
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60 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows |
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62 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp. |
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67 ** Implement other text formatting properties. |
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68 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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69 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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71 same value of this property. |
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72 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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74 ** Make movemail work with IMAP. |
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78 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change. |
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113 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them. |
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152 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix. |
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161 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a. |
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166 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
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172 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
32947 | 173 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
174 Love started on this.] | |
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178 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
51317 | 179 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned. |
180 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG | |
181 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] | |
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186 ** Change the Windows NT menu code |
25853 | 187 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids |
188 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
189 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
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191 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
192 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
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193 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated |
25853 | 194 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. |
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196 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs |
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220 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe |
49605 | 221 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at |
222 this and can say where some of the problems are.] | |
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226 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
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232 | |
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33253 | 236 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] |
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238 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus |
33471 | 239 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the |
240 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
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242 ** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
35583 | 243 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar |
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51647 | 247 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on |
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250 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
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277 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.] |
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279 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it |
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336 with the colour used for the transparent regions.) | |
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355 only the variable `current-language-environment'. | |
356 | |
357 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit | |
358 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language | |
359 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale | |
360 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is | |
361 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system. | |
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363 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print. | |
364 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in | |
365 addition to ASCII. | |
366 | |
367 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts. | |
368 | |
369 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari). | |
370 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables | |
371 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local | |
372 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly | |
373 via Xft library). | |
374 | |
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376 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai). | |
377 | |
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379 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method | |
380 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external | |
381 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM. | |
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