changeset 67610:0cf34d968396

Updates from Dave Love.

--- a/etc/TODO	Fri Dec 16 12:17:14 2005 +0000
+++ b/etc/TODO	Fri Dec 16 12:49:13 2005 +0000
@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@
 * Important features:
 
 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
-   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at
-  multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.]
+   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx looked at
+  multilingual font selection for Unicode-based Emacs 23.]
 
 ** 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.
@@ -88,6 +90,8 @@
 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
 
 ** Make movemail work with IMAP.
+  movemail from GNU mailutils does that, so switching to it will solve
+  the issue.
 
 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
 
@@ -122,6 +126,7 @@
   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.
 
@@ -139,6 +144,9 @@
 
 ** 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.
@@ -170,7 +178,9 @@
 ** 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
@@ -194,7 +204,8 @@
 ** 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.
@@ -238,8 +249,9 @@
   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.
 
@@ -255,9 +267,15 @@
   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, space after periods and colons, ...
+** 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.]
 
 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental).  (We may be able to use
   the Boehm collector.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
@@ -318,7 +336,8 @@
   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