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Small but important fixes needed in existing features:

* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
  on text properties in the error message lines.

Important features:

* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
  display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at multilingual
  font selection for Emacs 22.]

* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.  [Is there actually a
  decent single definition of RTF?]

* Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
  probably needs some primitive support.

* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling

  Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]

* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
  be only full columns/lines.

* Move fringe to be displayed between display margins and text area.
  [KFS is looking into this].

* Set fringe widths per-window/per-buffer.

* Make fringe bitmaps user configurable.  Maybe add ability to add
  additional bitmaps to the fringe from lisp.

Other features we would like:

* Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
  of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
  It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.

  the Boehm collector.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
  this.]

* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.

* Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
  Using libdnd might be a good start.

* Add horizontal scroll bars.

* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
  size and its position from lines instead of characters.

* Make the Custom themes support do useful things.

* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
  compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs.  Converting CCL
  programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.

* Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".

* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
  Emacs.

* Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program

  refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
  cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
  cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
  probably in separate manual.

* Provide a means to extract image-relative coordinates from mouse
  clicks on images.  (Needed for W3, at least.)  Also useful for W3
  and Gnus: allow images to scroll properly.

* Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
  the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally.  (Requires care
  with the colour used for the transparent regions.)

* Convenient access to the `values' variable.  It would be nice to have an
  interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
  list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
  other variable, without changing the value of `values'.

* Fix skip-chars-{for,back}ward to allow character classes.

89909:68c22ea6027c

Small but important fixes needed in existing features:

* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
  on text properties in the error message lines.

* Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
  invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
  the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
  ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
  text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.

Important features:

* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
  display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at multilingual
  font selection for Emacs 22.]

* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.  [Is there actually a
  decent single definition of RTF?  Maybe see info at
  http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]

* Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
  probably needs some primitive support.

* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling

  Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]

* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
  be only full columns/lines.

Other features we would like:

* Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
  of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
  It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.

  the Boehm collector.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
  this.]

* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.

* Add horizontal scroll bars.

* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
  size and its position from lines instead of characters.

* Make the Custom themes support do useful things.

* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
  compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs.  Converting CCL
  programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.

* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
  Emacs.

* Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program

  refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
  cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
  cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
  probably in separate manual.

* Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
  the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally.  (Requires care
  with the colour used for the transparent regions.)

* Convenient access to the `values' variable.  It would be nice to have an
  interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
  list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
  other variable, without changing the value of `values'.

* Fix skip-chars-{for,back}ward to allow character classes.

* (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
  i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.

* Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
  `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
  Whenever possible, use value 'string.
  When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
  If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
  the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
  and from the calls.

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