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(todo): Add :link, :version. (todo-save-top-priorities): Remove autoload cookie. (todo-add-category, todo-add-item-non-interactively) (todo-insert-item, todo-mode, todo-cp, todo-show): Fix autoload cookie.
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9 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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13 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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40 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
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62 ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
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65 modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight
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68 interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt
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69 [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode
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71 bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode,
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72 spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?],
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73 pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual);
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77 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the
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83 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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103 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
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105 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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107 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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108 automatically.
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112 * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and
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113 support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.]
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115 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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116 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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118 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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119 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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120 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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122 * Investigate using the language environment to set up more things,
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123 such as the default Ispell dictionary.
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125 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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126 the Boehm collector.)
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128 * Implement variable aliases, i.e. a `defvaralias' analogous to the
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129 `defalias' for functions. The implementation should not slow down
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130 Emacs, and it shouldn't use additional memory, at least not much.
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132 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
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134 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
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136 * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window
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137 when the mouse enters it.
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139 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
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141 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
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142 Using libdnd might be a good start.
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144 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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145 be only full columns/lines.
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147 * Add horizontal scroll bars.