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e39fc314 | 1 | -*-text-*- |
19cc91fb GM |
2 | |
3 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
4 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
5 | ||
00a18b59 DL |
6 | * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
7 | decent single definition of RTF?] | |
6165b6e3 EZ |
8 | |
9 | * Implement other text formatting properties. | |
10 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
11 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
12 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
13 | same value of this property. | |
14 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
15 | ||
e39fc314 DL |
16 | * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
17 | probably needs some primitive support. | |
6165b6e3 | 18 | |
a933dad1 DL |
19 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
20 | different parts of a buffer. | |
21 | ||
22 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
23 | output to a different filter. | |
24 | ||
25 | * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
26 | on text properties in the error message lines. | |
27 | ||
28 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
29 | useful sense). | |
30 | ||
31 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
32 | ||
33 | * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
34 | so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
35 | ||
36 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file | |
e39fc314 DL |
37 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
38 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 39 | |
e39fc314 DL |
40 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
41 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
42 | |
43 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
44 | for undoing. | |
45 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
46 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
47 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
48 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
49 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
50 | ||
51 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
52 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
53 | thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
54 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
d054101f GM |
55 | |
56 | * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean. | |
6344985d | 57 | |
e39fc314 | 58 | * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
da1608d9 | 59 | |
e39fc314 DL |
60 | * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
61 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's | |
34f70eda | 62 | a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist, |
e39fc314 DL |
63 | ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion, |
64 | delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu, | |
65 | expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various | |
66 | modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight | |
67 | [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, | |
68 | mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be | |
69 | interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt | |
70 | [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode | |
71 | [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce, | |
72 | bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, | |
73 | spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], | |
5dd31b13 SM |
74 | pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); |
75 | other progmodes, probably in separate manual. | |
e39fc314 DL |
76 | |
77 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs | |
78 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
79 | assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
80 | missed. | |
81 | ||
82 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
83 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
84 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
85 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 DL |
86 | |
87 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
88 | an example how to do part of this. | |
89 | ||
90 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
91 | macros in cl-macs. | |
92 | ||
93 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
94 | ||
95 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
96 | ||
97 | * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
98 | properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
99 | ||
100 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
101 | ||
102 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
103 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
104 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
105 | ||
106 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
107 | |
108 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
109 | automatically. | |
110 | ||
111 | * Update the FAQ. | |
112 | ||
113 | * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and | |
114 | support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.] | |
b04f7626 DL |
115 | |
116 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. | |
117 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
118 | |
119 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
120 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
121 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
122 | ||
cf56d05f DL |
123 | * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
124 | more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
125 | holidays... | |
34f70eda DL |
126 | |
127 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
128 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb | 129 | |
e2849090 | 130 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
19cc91fb GM |
131 | |
132 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
133 | ||
134 | * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window | |
135 | when the mouse enters it. | |
136 | ||
4dd4cc14 | 137 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 DL |
138 | |
139 | * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
52d8e4ff GM |
140 | Using libdnd might be a good start. |
141 | ||
142 | * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
143 | be only full columns/lines. | |
03ff8aab GM |
144 | |
145 | * Add horizontal scroll bars. | |
00a18b59 DL |
146 | |
147 | * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful | |
c0460c17 | 148 | things. [The integration is partly done.] |
e4ded23c GM |
149 | |
150 | * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's | |
151 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
c0460c17 DL |
152 | |
153 | * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. | |
b09646e3 EZ |
154 | |
155 | * Remove the special treatment of binary files by DOS and Windows ports. | |
156 | They should use find-file-literally and `no-conversion' instead. | |
8d57a345 DL |
157 | |
158 | * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental | |
5dcdd840 DL |
159 | compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
160 | programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
b14b5f08 EZ |
161 | |
162 | * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". | |
8bd6307f GM |
163 | |
164 | * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
165 | another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
166 | ||
296808a5 GM |
167 | * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
168 | Emacs. |