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(comint-after-partial-file-name-command): Renamed from comint-after-partial-pathname-command. (comint-match-partial-file-name, comint-after-partial-file-name): Renamed from comint-match-partial-pathname, etc. (comint-last-output-start): New variable to record where most recent process output started from. (comint-mode): Initialise it. (comint-output-filter): Set it. (comint-previous-matching-input-string): Moved to comint-previous-matching-input-position. (comint-previous-matching-input-string): Use it. (comint-search-arg, comint-search-start, comint-previous-input-string): New subroutines. (comint-previous-input, comint-next-input, comint-previous-matching-input, comint-next-matching-input, comint-previous-matching-input-from-input, comint-next-matching-input-from-input): Use them. (comint-mode-map): Added signal menu-bar. Moved comint-backward/forward-matching-input to output menu-bar, since they move within the buffer rather than do input. (comint-send-input, comint-after-pmark-p, comint-kill-input, comint-proc-query): Removed serialisation of obtaining the process mark's marker-position. Commented out comint-load-hooks. (comint-dynamic-simple-complete): New subroutine. (comint-dynamic-complete-filename-command): New variable. (comint-after-partial-pathname-command): New variable. (comint-after-partial-pathname): New subroutine. (comint-dynamic-complete): Use them. (comint-mode): Make them local. Renamed comint-dynamic-complete-command to comint-dynamic-complete-command-command for consistency. Renamed comint-file-name-addsuffix/autolist/recexact to comint-completion-addsuffix/autolist/recexact for consistency. (comint-replace-by-expanded-history): Check if input ring size is not big enough for relative reference. (comint-read-input-ring, comint-input-ring-file-name): From shell.el. (shell-write-input-ring): New subroutine. (comint-file-name-prefix): New variable. (comint-directory): New inline subroutine. (comint-dynamic-complete-filename, comint-dynamic-complete-variable, comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions): Use it. (comint-dynamic-complete-filename, comint-dynamic-complete-variable, comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions): Make sure local completion-ignore-case is nil. (comint-next-prompt, comint-previous-prompt): Use paragraph-start and paragraph motion commands rather than re-search-forward and re-search-backward commands. (comint-dynamic-list-input-ring, comint-previous-matching-input-string): Use ring-empty-p rather than zerop and ring-length. (comint-input-ignoredups): New variable. (comint-send-input, shell-read-input-ring): Use it. (comint-mode): Make comint-input-ignoredups local. Doc fix. (comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input): New variable. (comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output): New variable. (comint-scroll-show-maximum-output): New variable. (comint-output-filter-hook): New variable, defaults to comint-postoutput-scroll-to-bottom. (comint-output-filter): Renamed from comint-filter for consistency. Now calls comint-output-filter-hook. (comint-preinput-scroll-to-bottom): New subroutine. (comint-postoutput-scroll-to-bottom): New subroutine. (comint-show-maximum-output): New command. (comint-copy-old-input): New command. (comint-send-input): Run comint-output-filter-hook if necessary as a kludge to prevent messy redisplays. (comint-mode-map): Added comint-show-maximum-output to C-c C-e and menu-bar output, and comint-copy-old-input to C-c C-i and menu-bar input. (comint-mode): Make local variables comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-input, before-change-function, comint-scroll-to-bottom-on-output, comint-scroll-show-maximum-output, and comint-output-filter-hook. (comint-version): Deleted--no need for separate version. (comint-input-ring-index): Make this a permanent local. (comint-mode): Don't alter comint-input-ring-index or comint-input-ring if already set meaningfully. (comint-mode-map): Added keys M-R/S for comint-previous/next-matching-input-from-input and to completion menu-bar. Added comint-forward/backward-matching-input and comint-previous/next-matching-input to completion menu-bar. (comint-mode): Doc fix for functionality. (comint-exec-1): Uses setenv. (comint-update-env): Removed. (comint-input-ring-size): Incremented to 32, as with command history. (comint-dynamic-list-input-ring): Check for zero length ring. Use ring length, not ring size, when generating list. Use buffer " *Input History*". (comint-previous-matching-input-string): Check for zero-length ring. Check last item in case at end of cycle and it's a match. (comint-searching-input-ring): New subroutine. (comint-regexp-arg): New subroutine. (comint-previous-matching-input-from-input): New command. (comint-next-matching-input-from-input): New command. (comint-replace-by-expanded-history): Fix for matching inside quotes. Fix to allow argument subrange specifiers. Fix to identify and reject absolute input number references. (comint-within-quotes): New subroutine. (comint-how-many-region): New subroutine. (comint-args): New subroutine. (comint-delim-arg): New subroutine. (comint-arguments): New subroutine. (comint-delimiter-argument-list): New variable. (comint-send-input): Inserts input arguments into ring separated by single spaces. (comint-filter): Checks the buffer's process to make sure it's still there. Otherwise, set-buffer will fail. (comint-backward-matching-input): New command. (comint-forward-matching-input): New command. (comint-next-prompt, comint-previous-prompt): Error if reach beg/end of buffer. (comint-dynamic-complete): Fix for absolute input number references. (comint-dynamic-complete-filename): Changed listings function to comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions. Uses file-directory-p rather than string-match to test for directories. (comint-dynamic-list-completions): Changed to list the list of completions supplied as the function argument. Use buffer " *Completions*". (comint-match-partial-pathname): New subroutine. (comint-dynamic-complete-variable): New command. (comint-dynamic-list-filename-completions): New function. (comint-previous-input): Don't use replace-match; just insert before deleting. (comint-magic-space): Use self-insert command. (comint-history-file-name): New variable. (comint-mode): Initialize comint-input-ring before running comint-mode-hook. (comint-input-autoexpand): New variable. (comint-dynamic-complete-command): New variable. (comint-get-current-command): New variable. (comint-read-input-ring): New function. (comint-send-input): Handle history expansion. (comint-input-sentinel): Doc fix. (comint-mode-map): Added key binding for C-c C-h. Added menu bars for completion, input and output. (comint-dynamic-list-input-ring): New function. (comint-previous-input-string): New subroutine. (comint-previous-input): Use it. (comint-previous-matching-input-string): New subroutine. (comint-previous-matching-input): Use it. (comint-replace-by-expanded-history): New command. (comint-magic-space): New command. (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename): Now replaces expanded match for a filename, and then calls filename completion comint-dynamic-complete-filename to do file name completion. (comint-kill-output): Don't kill prompt. (comint-show-output): Don't move point if it's visible where it is, and if point is moved, put it after prompt. (comint-dynamic-complete): Totally new definition. (comint-dynamic-complete-filename): New name for old function comint-dynamic-complete, completes files and lists candidates, souped up for configurability. (comint-dynamic-complete-variable): New command. (comint-file-name-autolist): New variable. (comint-file-name-addsuffix): New variable, (comint-file-name-recexact): New variable.

Things useful to do for GNU Emacs:

* Primitive for random access insertion of part of a file.

* Making I/O streams for files, so that read and prin1 can
 be used on files directly.  The I/O stream itself would
 serve as a function to read or write one character.

* If a file you can't write is in a directory you can write,
 make sure it works to modify and save this file.

* Make dired's commands handle correctly the case where
 ls has listed several subdirectories' contents.
 It needs to be able to tell which directory each file
 is really in, by searching backward for the line
 which identifies the start of a directory.

* Add more dired commands, such as sorting (use the
 sort utility through call-process-region).

* Make display.c record inverse-video-ness on
 a character by character basis.  Then make non-full-screen-width
 mode lines inverse video, and display the marked location in
 inverse video.

* VMS code to list a file directory.  Make dired work.

Long range:

   Ideas for extending GNU Emacs to deal with arbitrary character sets.

I would like GNU Emacs to be extended to handle all the world's alphabets
and word signs.  I don't expect to have time to do such a thing in the next
few years, so here are my ideas on the best way to do it.

* Each graphic is represented by a sequence of ordinary 8-bit characters.

* All the characters that make up such a sequence have codes >= 0200.

* The first character of such a sequence is between 0200 and 0237.

* The remaining characters of such a sequence are all 0240 or higher.

* The first character of the sequence determines the number of characters
in the sequence.  Thus, 0200...0207 could start two-character sequences,
0210...0227 could start three-character sequences, and 0230 could start
four-character sequences.  (Codes 0231...0237 would be reserved.)

*  Several common  alphabets,  and  some mathematical   symbols,  would get
two-character sequences.  (Probably Greek,  Russian,  Hebrew(?), Arabic(?),
Korean, and Japanese kana).  The remaining alphabets, and  some versions of
Chinese,  would   get  three-character sequences.    Other  sets of Chinese
characters would get four-character sequences.

Each country that uses Chinese characters has its own standard character
set, and it is not easy to correlate them to avoid overlap.  So there may
need to be several sets of Chinese characters.  That is why they need so
much code space.

True support for Hebrew and Arabic requires dealing with the problem of
writing direction for mixed text; I don't know what to do for that.

* The functions that use syntax table would determine the
syntax of a sequence from its first character.

* Functions in indent.c for computing widths and columns would
determine the width of a sequence from its first character.
So would display routines.

* Only a few other editing routines would need any change.  In
particular, searching and regexp matching might not need any change.

* Most of the work required would be in redisplay.  The only case that
needs to be supported is with X windows, since ordinary terminals
can't display all these characters anyway.

* There might need to be code to translate files from this format
to whatever format is typically stored on disk.


I would be very unhappy with half-measures, such as support for
Japanese only.