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3 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
4 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
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35157 | 6 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
7 decent single definition of RTF?] | |
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9 * Implement other text formatting properties. |
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10 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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11 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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12 Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
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13 same value of this property. |
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14 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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32947 | 16 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
17 probably needs some primitive support. | |
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25853 | 19 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
20 different parts of a buffer. | |
21 | |
22 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
23 output to a different filter. | |
24 | |
25 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
26 on text properties in the error message lines. | |
27 | |
28 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
29 useful sense). | |
30 | |
31 * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
32 | |
33 * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
34 so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
35 | |
36 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file | |
32947 | 37 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
38 Love started on this.] | |
25853 | 39 |
32947 | 40 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
41 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
25853 | 42 |
43 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
44 for undoing. | |
45 | |
46 * Change the Windows NT menu code | |
47 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
48 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
49 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
50 | |
51 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
52 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
53 thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
54 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
27949 | 55 |
56 * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean. | |
29696 | 57 |
32947 | 58 * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
59 | |
60 * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or | |
61 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's | |
33827 | 62 a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist, |
32947 | 63 ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion, |
64 delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu, | |
65 expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various | |
66 modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight | |
67 [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, | |
68 mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be | |
69 interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt | |
70 [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode | |
71 [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce, | |
72 bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, | |
73 spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], | |
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74 pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); |
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75 other progmodes, probably in separate manual. |
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77 * Update and expand the Info mode manual. |
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78 Many Info commands are completely undocumented, including the |
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79 mouse-related ones. |
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32947 | 81 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
82 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
83 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
84 missed. | |
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32947 | 86 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
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87 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
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88 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? |
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89 what else ? |
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91 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
92 an example how to do part of this. | |
93 | |
94 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
95 macros in cl-macs. | |
96 | |
97 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
98 | |
99 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
100 | |
101 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
102 properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
103 | |
104 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
105 | |
106 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
107 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
108 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
109 | |
110 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
33076 | 111 |
112 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
113 automatically. | |
114 | |
115 * Update the FAQ. | |
116 | |
117 * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and | |
118 support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.] | |
33253 | 119 |
120 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. | |
121 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
33471 | 122 |
123 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
124 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
125 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
126 | |
35583 | 127 * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
128 more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
129 holidays... | |
33827 | 130 |
131 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
132 the Boehm collector.) | |
33867 | 133 |
134 * Implement variable aliases, i.e. a `defvaralias' analogous to the | |
135 `defalias' for functions. The implementation should not slow down | |
136 Emacs, and it shouldn't use additional memory, at least not much. | |
137 | |
34333 | 138 * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
33867 | 139 |
140 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
141 | |
142 * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window | |
143 when the mouse enters it. | |
144 | |
34029 | 145 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
34333 | 146 |
147 * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
34675 | 148 Using libdnd might be a good start. |
149 | |
150 * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
151 be only full columns/lines. | |
34749 | 152 |
153 * Add horizontal scroll bars. | |
35157 | 154 |
155 * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful | |
36084 | 156 things. [The integration is partly done.] |
35318 | 157 |
158 * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's | |
159 size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
36084 | 160 |
161 * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. | |
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163 * Remove the special treatment of binary files by DOS and Windows ports. |
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164 They should use find-file-literally and `no-conversion' instead. |