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* keymap.c (access_keymap): Add AUTOLOAD parameter. Do the meta->esc mapping. Call get_keyelt before returning. Start scanning from the second element (the first is always `keymap') to make it easier to detect when we reach a parent map. Handle the case of inheriting from a symbol whose function is a map. (Fkeymap_parent): Also handle the `inherit from symbol' case. (fix_submap_inheritance, Fdefine_key): Update call to access_keymap. (get_keyelt, Flookup_key): Update call to access_keymap. Remove the meta->esc mappings. (define_as_prefix): Delete old disabled code. (menu_item_p): New function. (where_is_internal_1): Skip over the few remaining menu items. * lisp.h (access_keymap): Update prototype. * keyboard.c (read_char, menu_bar_items, tool_bar_items): Update call to access_keymap. (follow_key, read_key_sequence): Update calls to access_keymap. Remove the meta->esc mappings.

* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
  different parts of a buffer.

* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
  output to a different filter.

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

* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
  useful sense).

* Make movemail work with IMAP.

* Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
  so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.

* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
  which gives the same information through a menu structure.

* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that
  works with GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.

* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
  for undoing.

* 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
  same value of this property.
** Discretionary hyphens that disappear at end of line.

* Change the Windows NT menu code
  so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
  regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
  when the user tries to use the menubar.

  This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
  the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
  thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
  the whole menu bar.  In the mean time, it should process other messages.

* Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.

* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of 
keymap.c).

** Provide real menus on ttys.  The MS-DOS implementation can
serve as an example how to do part of this.