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1 -*-text-*-
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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 compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
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13 on text properties in the error message lines.
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15 Important features:
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17 * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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18 display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual
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19 font selection for Emacs 22.]
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21 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
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22 decent single definition of RTF?]
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24 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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25 probably needs some primitive support.
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27 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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28 properly with variable-pitch faces.
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30 * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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31 C-v to scroll through a tall image.
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33 * Implement other text formatting properties.
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34 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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35 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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36 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
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37 same value of this property.
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38 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
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40 * Make movemail work with IMAP.
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42 * Internationalize Emacs's messages. [Note that this is of limited
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43 use until the menus can display multilingual text. It also doesn't
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44 address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially
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45 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. -- fx]
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47 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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48 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
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49 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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50 pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific
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51 locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary
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52 text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] [The gtk
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53 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
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54 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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56 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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57 be only full columns/lines.
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59 * Move fringe to be displayed between display margins and text area.
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60 [KFS is looking into this].
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62 * Set fringe widths per-window/per-buffer.
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64 * Make fringe bitmaps user configurable. Maybe add ability to add
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65 additional bitmaps to the fringe from lisp.
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67 Other features we would like:
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69 * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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70 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
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71 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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73 * Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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74 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
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75 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
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76 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
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79 different parts of a buffer.
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81 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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82 output to a different filter.
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84 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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85 useful sense).
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87 * Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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88 desktops.
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90 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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91 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
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92 Love started on this.]
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94 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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95 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
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96 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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97 use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
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99 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
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100 for undoing.
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102 * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
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103 They split off a few years ago through negligence.
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105 * Change the Windows NT menu code
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106 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
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107 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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108 when the user tries to use the menubar.
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110 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
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111 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
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112 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
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113 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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115 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
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116 significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
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117 packages which might go in and have been missed.
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119 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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120 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
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121 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
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122 what else ?
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124 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
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125 an example how to do part of this.
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127 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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128 macros in cl-macs.
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130 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
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131 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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133 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
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135 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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136 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
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137 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
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139 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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140 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
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141 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
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143 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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145 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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146 automatically.
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148 * Update the FAQ.
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150 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
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151 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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153 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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154 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
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155 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
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157 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
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158 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
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159 holidays, quoting characters?,...
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161 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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162 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
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177 * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
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178 compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
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183 * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
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184 Emacs.
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186 * Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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187 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
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189 * Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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190 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
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191 thought this was feasible.]
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193 * Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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194 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
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195 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
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197 * Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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198 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
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199 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
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200 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
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201 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
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202 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
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203 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
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206 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
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207 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
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209 * Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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210 encodings.
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212 * Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
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214 * Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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215 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
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216 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
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221 * Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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222 colors of the applicable faces.
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225 XRender/Freetype.
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229 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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230 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
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232 * Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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233 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
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234 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
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239 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
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240 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
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241 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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244 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
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245 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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246 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
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247 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
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248 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
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249 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
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250 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
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251 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
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252 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
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253 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
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254 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
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255 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
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256 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
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260 clicks on images. (Needed for W3, at least.) Also useful for W3
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261 and Gnus: allow images to scroll properly.
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264 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
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265 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
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270 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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