Mercurial > emacs
changeset 49605:198eb20e0bbb
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| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:36:25 +0000 |
| parents | 9fdc2a7e5fa5 |
| children | a08df1d55323 |
| files | etc/TODO |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/TODO Tue Feb 04 17:07:42 2003 +0000 +++ b/etc/TODO Tue Feb 04 18:36:25 2003 +0000 @@ -9,16 +9,14 @@ Small but important fixes needed in existing features: -* Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem - for the use of the preferred coding systems. - * 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. + display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual + font selection for Emacs 22.] * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a decent single definition of RTF?] @@ -41,11 +39,17 @@ * Make movemail work with IMAP. -* Internationalize Emacs's messages. +* Internationalize Emacs's messages. [Note that this is of limited + use until the menus can display multilingual text. It also doesn't + address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially + as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. -- fx] -* Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) - -* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. +* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This + probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly + in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the + pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific + locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary + text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can be only full columns/lines. @@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ for undoing. * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. - They split off a few years ago through negligance. + They split off a few years ago through negligence. * Change the Windows NT menu code so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids @@ -124,7 +128,9 @@ * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. -* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. +* 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. @@ -149,7 +155,7 @@ holidays, quoting characters?,... * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use - the Boehm collector.) + the Boehm collector.) [fx is working on this.] * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. @@ -161,8 +167,7 @@ * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's size and its position from lines instead of characters. -* Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful - things. [The integration is partly done.] +* Make the Custom themes support do useful things. * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. @@ -204,8 +209,9 @@ * 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. + GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed -- + that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done + this.] * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. @@ -244,7 +250,17 @@ cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, probably in separate manual. +* Provide a means to extract image-relative coordinates from mouse + clicks on images. (Needed for W3, at least.) Also useful for W3 + and Gnus: allow images to scroll properly. + +* Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap + the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care + with the colour used for the transparent regions.) + * Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some other variable, without changing the value of `values'. + +* Fix skip-chars-{for,back}ward to allow character classes.