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

Important features:

* Write an INTRO_CVS file with basic instructions how to build emacs
  from CVS (make bootstrap), some information on how the config
  and build system is tied together, and all sorts of tips and tricks
  (FAQ) which may be of interest to new (and old) emacs hackers.

* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
  display a font as a sample, etc.

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

  probably needs some primitive support.

* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
  properly with variable-pitch faces.

* Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility.

* Implement other text formatting properties.
** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
   Don't break the line between two characters that have the

  another buffer but not written yet, print a warning.

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

* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.

* Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
  XRender/Freetype.

* Rewrite make-docfile to something sane.

* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
  to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.

* Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important

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* 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.

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

  probably needs some primitive support.

* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
  properly with variable-pitch faces.

* Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
  C-v to scroll through a tall image.

* Implement other text formatting properties.
** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
   Don't break the line between two characters that have the

  another buffer but not written yet, print a warning.

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

* Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
  converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).

* Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
  e.g. to render graphics from Java applets.  [gerd and/or wmperry
  thought this was feasible.]

* Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
  (Requires recursing through display properties).  Provide some way
  to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.

* Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
  is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh).  Use it to
  define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
  (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp).  Examples include
  box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
  tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator.  [See work done
  already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]

* Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
  to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
  access in cases which need more than Lisp.

* Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
  encodings.

* Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).

* Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
  GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed  --
  that apparently loses under Solaris, at least.

* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.

* Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
  XRender/Freetype.

* Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.

* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
  to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.

* Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important