Mercurial > emacs
changeset 107361:3b11a4a71af1
Start laying out a plan for Emacs-24
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:08:38 -0500 |
| parents | 8d9bcdbc2a6e |
| children | adf240ef5c11 |
| files | etc/TODO |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/TODO Sun Mar 07 21:02:20 2010 +0200 +++ b/etc/TODO Sun Mar 07 15:08:38 2010 -0500 @@ -12,7 +12,46 @@ prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work to the FSF. -* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are +* Tentative plan for Emacs-24 + +** Bidi +** lexbind: I haven't checked the status of the code recently, so + I don't know how realistic it is to include it. But it's been around + for a long time, and I trust Miles, so I have hope. +** concurrency: including it as an "experimental" compile-time option + sounds good. Of course there might still be big questions around + "which form of concurrency" we'll want. +** Overhaul of customize: sounds wonderful. +** some kind of color-theme: agreed. +** better support for dynamic embedded graphics: I like this idea (my + mpc.el code could use it for the volume widget), tho I wonder if the + resulting efficiency will be sufficient. +** Spread Semantic. +** Improve the "code snippets" support: consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el, + and expand.el (any other?) and then advertise/use/improve it. +** Improve VC: yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-( + And most of it could/should make it into Emacs-23.3. +** package manager. + +** Random things that cross my mind right now that I'd like to see (some of +them from my local hacks), but it's not obvious at all whether they'll +make it. +*** multiple inheritance for keymaps (to get rid of the + fix_submap_inheritance hack and to more cleanly express the + relationship between minibuffer-local-*-map): I've had this locally + for a long time, but the details of the semantics is somewhat ... delicate. +*** prog-mode (a parent-mode, like text-mode). Could/should provide + a better fill-paragraph default that uses syntax-tables to recognize + string/comment boundaries. +*** provide more completion-at-point-functions. Make existing + in-buffer completion use completion-at-point. +*** "functional" function-key-map that would make it easy to add (and + remove) mappings like "FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down", + "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t", "uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] -> + [KEY]", "H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ... + + +* Simple tasks. These don't require much Emacs knowledge, they are suitable for anyone from beginners to experts. ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.