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author | Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> |
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2251 | 1 Things useful to do for GNU Emacs: |
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3 * Primitive for random access insertion of part of a file. | |
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5 * Making I/O streams for files, so that read and prin1 can | |
6 be used on files directly. The I/O stream itself would | |
7 serve as a function to read or write one character. | |
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9 * If a file you can't write is in a directory you can write, | |
10 make sure it works to modify and save this file. | |
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12 * Make dired's commands handle correctly the case where | |
13 ls has listed several subdirectories' contents. | |
14 It needs to be able to tell which directory each file | |
15 is really in, by searching backward for the line | |
16 which identifies the start of a directory. | |
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18 * Add more dired commands, such as sorting (use the | |
19 sort utility through call-process-region). | |
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21 * Make display.c record inverse-video-ness on | |
22 a character by character basis. Then make non-full-screen-width | |
23 mode lines inverse video, and display the marked location in | |
24 inverse video. | |
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26 * VMS code to list a file directory. Make dired work. | |
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28 Long range: |
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30 Ideas for extending GNU Emacs to deal with arbitrary character sets. |
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32 I would like GNU Emacs to be extended to handle all the world's alphabets |
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33 and word signs. I don't expect to have time to do such a thing in the next |
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34 few years, so here are my ideas on the best way to do it. |
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36 * Each graphic is represented by a sequence of ordinary 8-bit characters. |
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38 * All the characters that make up such a sequence have codes >= 0200. |
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40 * The first character of such a sequence is between 0200 and 0237. |
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42 * The remaining characters of such a sequence are all 0240 or higher. |
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44 * The first character of the sequence determines the number of characters |
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45 in the sequence. Thus, 0200...0207 could start two-character sequences, |
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46 0210...0227 could start three-character sequences, and 0230 could start |
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47 four-character sequences. (Codes 0231...0237 would be reserved.) |
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49 * Several common alphabets, and some mathematical symbols, would get |
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50 two-character sequences. (Probably Greek, Russian, Hebrew(?), Arabic(?), |
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51 Korean, and Japanese kana). The remaining alphabets, and some versions of |
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52 Chinese, would get three-character sequences. Other sets of Chinese |
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53 characters would get four-character sequences. |
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55 Each country that uses Chinese characters has its own standard character |
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61 writing direction for mixed text; I don't know what to do for that. |
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64 syntax of a sequence from its first character. |
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71 particular, searching and regexp matching might not need any change. |
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73 * Most of the work required would be in redisplay. The only case that |
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74 needs to be supported is with X windows, since ordinary terminals |
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82 Japanese only. |
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