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1 -*-outline-*-
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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 package, 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 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
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13 as well as overlapping matches.
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15 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
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16 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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17 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
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18 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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19 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
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21 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
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22 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
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23 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
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25 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
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26 variables whose values are currently hidden.
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28 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
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29 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
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30 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
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31 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
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33 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
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35 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
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37 * Important features:
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39 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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40 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
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41 multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.]
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43 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
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45 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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46 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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47 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]
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49 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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52 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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53 and/or add a variable to the list.
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55 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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56 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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58 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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59 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
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60 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
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62 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
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63 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
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65 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
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66 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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67 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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68 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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69 same value of this property.
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70 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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72 ** Make movemail work with IMAP.
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74 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
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76 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
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77 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
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78 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
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80 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
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81 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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83 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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85 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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86 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
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87 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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88 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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89 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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90 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
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91 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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93 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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94 be only full columns/lines.
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96 * Other features we would like:
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98 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
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99 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
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101 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
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102 and put some other errors under it.
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104 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
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105 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
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106 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
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107 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
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108 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
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110 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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111 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like "
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112 [Function has advice]". It might look like
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113 (defun foo [Function has advice] (x y)
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114 The overlay could also be a button that you could use to view the advice.
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116 ** ange-ftp
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117 *** understand sftp
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118 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
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120 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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121 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
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122 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
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123 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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125 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
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126 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
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127 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
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128 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
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129 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
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130 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
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131 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
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132 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
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133 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
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135 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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143 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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144 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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146 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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147 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
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148 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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149 where one language is embedded in another language.
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152 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
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153 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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155 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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158 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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161 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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162 desktops.
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164 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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165 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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166 Love started on this.]
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168 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
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170 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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171 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
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172 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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173 use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
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175 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
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176 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
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178 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
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181 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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185 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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188 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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189 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
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190 packages which might go in and have been missed.
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192 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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193 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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194 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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195 what else ?
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197 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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198 an example how to do part of this.
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200 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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201 macros in cl-macs.
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203 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
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204 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
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205 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
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207 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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208 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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210 ** Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
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212 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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213 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
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214 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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216 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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217 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
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218 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
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220 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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222 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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223 automatically.
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225 ** Update the FAQ.
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227 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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228 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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230 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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231 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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232 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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234 ** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
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235 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
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236 holidays, quoting characters, space after periods and colons, ...
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238 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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239 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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240 this.]
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242 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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244 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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246 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
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247 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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249 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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250 Emacs.
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252 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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253 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
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255 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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256 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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257 thought this was feasible.]
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259 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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260 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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261 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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263 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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264 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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265 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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266 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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267 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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268 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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269 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
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271 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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272 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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273 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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275 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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276 encodings.
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278 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
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280 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
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281 when the body only calls primitives.
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285 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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286 colors of the applicable faces.
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288 ** Face remapping.
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290 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
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291 or the end of the buffer.
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293 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
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294 XRender/Freetype.
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296 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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297 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
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299 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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300 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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301 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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302 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
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303 attributes.
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305 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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306 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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307 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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308 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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309
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310 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
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311 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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312 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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313 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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314 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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315 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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316 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
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317 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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318 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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319 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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320 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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321 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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322 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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323 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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326 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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327 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
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328 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
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330 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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331 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
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332 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
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333 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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335 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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336 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
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338 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
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339 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
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340 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
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341 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
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342 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
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343 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
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344 and from the calls.
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346 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
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347 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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349 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
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350 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
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351 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
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352 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
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353 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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355 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
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356 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
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357 addition to ASCII.
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359 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
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361 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
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362 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
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363 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
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364 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
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365 via Xft library).
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367 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
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368 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
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370 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
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371 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
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372 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
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373 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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375 ** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
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376 for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
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378 * Internal changes
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380 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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381 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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382 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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383 this.]
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385 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
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387 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
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388 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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389 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
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390 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
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391 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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395 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
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396 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
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398 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
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399 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
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