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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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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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14 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text. |
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16 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line, |
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19 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment, |
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21 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. |
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22 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a |
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25 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading. |
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26 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom |
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27 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call. |
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29 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit |
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30 variables whose values are currently hidden. |
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32 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to |
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33 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions. |
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34 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable |
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35 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>. |
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37 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move). |
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39 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context. |
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41 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first, |
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44 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use. |
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45 See rms message of 11 Dec 05. |
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47 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to |
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48 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and |
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49 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height |
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50 without menu and tool bar lines. |
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52 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable |
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53 and they should create Custom buffers. |
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55 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips. |
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57 * Important features: |
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59 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
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60 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at |
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61 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.] |
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63 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster. |
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65 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
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71 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
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74 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer |
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75 and/or add a variable to the list. |
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77 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling |
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78 properly with variable-pitch faces. |
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80 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows |
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81 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations |
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82 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp. |
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87 ** Implement other text formatting properties. |
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88 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. |
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89 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". |
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90 Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
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91 same value of this property. |
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92 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
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94 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
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96 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change. |
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98 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point, |
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99 so that motion commands can also move through tall images. |
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100 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start. |
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102 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially |
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105 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This |
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112 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good |
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113 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8. |
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115 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can |
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118 * Other features we would like: |
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157 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings). |
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158 *** support for infix operators (with precedence). |
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159 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp. |
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160 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified |
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162 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way. |
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163 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state. |
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174 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix. |
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180 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also | |
181 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others. | |
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187 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error |
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190 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
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196 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
32947 | 197 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
198 Love started on this.] | |
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202 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
51317 | 203 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned. |
204 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG | |
67610 | 205 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also |
206 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz. | |
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213 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
214 when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
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216 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
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25853 | 219 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. |
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233 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler |
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237 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being |
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240 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA, |
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244 at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.] |
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246 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe |
49605 | 247 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at |
248 this and can say where some of the problems are.] | |
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67610 | 251 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on |
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255 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. |
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259 | |
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262 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
33253 | 263 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] |
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265 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus |
33471 | 266 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the |
267 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
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269 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use |
51647 | 270 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on |
271 this.] | |
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273 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
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275 ** Add horizontal scroll bars. |
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379 only the variable `current-language-environment'. | |
380 | |
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382 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language | |
383 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale | |
384 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is | |
385 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system. | |
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399 addition to ASCII. | |
400 | |
401 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts. | |
402 | |
403 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari). | |
404 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables | |
405 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local | |
406 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly | |
407 via Xft library). | |
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410 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai). | |
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413 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method | |
414 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external | |
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436 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior |
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437 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic. |
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438 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode, |
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439 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ... |
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447 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX. |
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