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3 Small but important fixes in existing features: |
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5 * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem |
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6 for the use of the preferred coding systems. |
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8 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci |
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9 on text properties in the error message lines. |
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11 Important features: |
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13 * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
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14 display a font as a sample, etc. |
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35157 | 16 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
17 decent single definition of RTF?] | |
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19 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
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20 probably needs some primitive support. |
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21 |
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22 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling |
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23 properly with variable-pitch faces. |
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25 * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility. |
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27 * Implement other text formatting properties. |
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28 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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29 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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30 Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
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31 same value of this property. |
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32 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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34 * Make movemail work with IMAP. |
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36 * Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
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38 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
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39 |
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40 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. |
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41 |
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42 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can |
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43 be only full columns/lines. |
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44 |
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45 Other features we would like: |
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46 |
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47 * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns |
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48 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. |
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49 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. |
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25853 | 51 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
52 different parts of a buffer. | |
53 | |
54 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
55 output to a different filter. | |
56 | |
57 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
58 useful sense). | |
59 | |
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60 * Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named |
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61 desktops. |
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25853 | 63 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
32947 | 64 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
65 Love started on this.] | |
25853 | 66 |
32947 | 67 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
68 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
25853 | 69 |
70 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
71 for undoing. | |
72 | |
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73 * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. |
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74 They split off a few years ago through negligance. |
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25853 | 76 * Change the Windows NT menu code |
77 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
78 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
79 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
80 | |
81 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
82 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
83 thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
84 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
27949 | 85 |
32947 | 86 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
87 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
88 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
89 missed. | |
31733 | 90 |
32947 | 91 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
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92 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
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93 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? |
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94 what else ? |
32947 | 95 |
96 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
97 an example how to do part of this. | |
98 | |
99 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
100 macros in cl-macs. | |
101 | |
102 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
103 | |
104 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
105 | |
106 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
107 | |
108 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
109 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
110 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
111 | |
112 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
33076 | 113 |
114 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
115 automatically. | |
116 | |
117 * Update the FAQ. | |
118 | |
33253 | 119 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
120 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
33471 | 121 |
122 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
123 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
124 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
125 | |
35583 | 126 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
127 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
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128 holidays, quoting characters?,... |
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130 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
131 the Boehm collector.) | |
33867 | 132 |
34029 | 133 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
34333 | 134 |
135 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
34675 | 136 Using libdnd might be a good start. |
137 | |
34749 | 138 * Add horizontal scroll bars. |
35157 | 139 |
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140 * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
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141 size and its position from lines instead of characters. |
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35157 | 143 * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful |
36084 | 144 things. [The integration is partly done.] |
35318 | 145 |
36084 | 146 * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
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37111 | 148 * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
37374 | 149 compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
150 programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
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152 * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". |
37923 | 153 |
154 * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
155 another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
156 | |
38543 | 157 * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
158 Emacs. | |
39373 | 159 |
160 * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
39900 | 161 |
162 * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. | |
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164 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector |
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165 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. |
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167 * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
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168 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). |
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169 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not |
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170 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. |
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173 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, |
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174 completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, |
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175 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], |
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176 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit |
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177 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], |
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178 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, |
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179 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from |
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180 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, |
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181 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, |
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182 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, |
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183 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, |
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184 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, |
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185 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, |
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