diff etc/TODO @ 90261:7beb78bc1f8e

Revision: [e-mail]--gnu-2005/emacs--unicode--0--patch-97 Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 Patches applied: * emacs--cvs-trunk--0 (patch 616-696) - Add lisp/mh-e/.arch-inventory - Update from CVS - Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 - Update from CVS: lisp/smerge-mode.el: Add 'tools' to file keywords. - lisp/gnus/ChangeLog: Remove duplicate entry * gnus--rel--5.10 (patch 147-181) - Update from CVS - Merge from emacs--cvs-trunk--0 - Update from CVS: lisp/mml.el (mml-preview): Doc fix. - Update from CVS: texi/message.texi: Fix default values. - Update from CVS: texi/gnus.texi (RSS): Addition.

--- a/etc/TODO	Mon Jan 16 06:59:21 2006 +0000
+++ b/etc/TODO	Mon Jan 16 08:37:27 2006 +0000
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 
 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
 
+** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
+
+** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
+
 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
    as well as overlapping matches.
 
@@ -34,15 +38,35 @@
 
 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
 
+** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
+  using a heuristic of some kind?
+
+** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
+  See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
+
+** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
+   make-frame does not mean the same thing.  The former includes menu and
+   tool bar lines, the latter don't.  frame-parameter should return height
+   without menu and tool bar lines.
+
+** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
+   and they should create Custom buffers.
+
+** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
+
 * 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 23.]
+   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at
+  multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
+
+** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
 
 ** 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/.]
+  http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]  This task seems to be addressed
+  by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
+  very early stages.
 
 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
   probably needs some primitive support.
@@ -67,9 +91,9 @@
    same value of this property.
 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
 
-** Make movemail work with IMAP.
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
 
-** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+** Install [e-mail]'s no-flicker change.
 
 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
   so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
@@ -99,6 +123,11 @@
 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
   and put some other errors under it.
 
+** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
+  See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
+
+** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
+
 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
   set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
   This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
@@ -113,6 +142,9 @@
 
 ** ange-ftp
 *** understand sftp
+   This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
+   messages.
+
 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
 
 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
@@ -144,7 +176,13 @@
 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
   different parts of a buffer.  This could be useful in editing
   Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
-  where one language is embedded in another language.
+  where one language is embedded in another language.  See
+  http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
+  mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
+
+** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
+  immediately, then replace it later.  So that C-s a with
+  input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
 
 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
   output to a different filter.
@@ -164,7 +202,8 @@
 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
   GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.
   See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
-  use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
+  use with mail, which is probably a good start.]  See also
+  http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
 
 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
   when needed for undoing.  This could extend undo capacity.
@@ -201,15 +240,17 @@
 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).  Already in CUA,
   but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
 
-** Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
+** Support simultaneous tty and X frames.  [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs 
+  at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.]
 
 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.  [Maybe
   not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions.  fx looked at
   this and can say where some of the problems are.]
 
 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
-  mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
-  They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
+  mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
+  various systems.  They make it difficult to spot the important
+  warnings.
 
 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
 
@@ -225,10 +266,6 @@
   ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
   environment.  What should not be ignored needs consideration.
 
-** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
-  more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
-  holidays, quoting characters?,...
-
 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental).  (We may be able to use
   the Boehm collector.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
   this.]
@@ -240,8 +277,6 @@
 ** 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.
-
 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
   Emacs.
 
@@ -283,11 +318,15 @@
 
 ** Face remapping.
 
+** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
+  or the end of the buffer.
+
 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
   XRender/Freetype.
 
 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
-  to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
+  to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.  Note
+  that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
 
 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
   options come first in the Customize buffers.  This could be done by
@@ -345,6 +384,16 @@
   are also put in utf-8 lang. env.  In such a case, it is
   better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
 
+** Enhance locale handling:  handle language, territory and charset
+  orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments.  Use the locale
+  to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
+  dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
+  characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
+  sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
+  directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
+  common menu items when the toolkit supports it ...  `locale-info'
+  needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c.  [fx started on this.]
+
 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
   Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
   addition to ASCII.
@@ -368,6 +417,12 @@
 ** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
    for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
 
+** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
+   Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
+   Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
+   e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [[e-mail] has a patch
+   for this for inclusion after 22.1].
+
 * Internal changes
 
 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current