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14
15 * Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
16 suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
17
18 ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
19
20 ** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
21
22 ** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
23 not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
24
25 ** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
26
27 ** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
28 It can use the same icons as gud.
29
30 ** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
31 to use it.
32
33 ** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
34 of appropriate :type and :group.
35
36 ** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings.
37
38 ** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms.
39 This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to
40 expecting such variables to always be defined, eg when they modify
41 things in their .emacs.
42
43 ** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print).
44
45 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
46
47 ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
48 levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
49 understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
50 command it will use.
51
52 I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
53 mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
54 for users to customize.
55
56 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
57
58 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
59 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
60
61 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
62
63 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
64 For related problems consult the thread starting with
65 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
66
67 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
68
69 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
70 as well as overlapping matches.
71
72 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
73 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
74 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
75 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
76 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
77
78 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
79 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
80 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
81
82 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
83 a specified time).
84
85 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
86 variables whose values are currently hidden.
87
88 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
89 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
90 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
91 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
92
93 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
94
95 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
96
97 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
98 using a heuristic of some kind?
99
100 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
101 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
102
103 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
104 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
105 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
106 without menu and tool bar lines.
107
108 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
109 and they should create Custom buffers.
110
111 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
112
113 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
114
115 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
116
117 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
118 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
119 recording which file the latest definition came from.
120
121 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
122
123 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
124 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
125
126 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
127 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
128
129 ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
130 on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
131 under the keys
132 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
133 and
134 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
135 where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
136
137 ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
138 Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
139
140 ** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
141
142 ** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files,
143 like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
144
145 ** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for
146 dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
147
148 ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
149 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
150
151 * Important features:
152
153 ** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
154
155 ** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
156 had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
157 beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
158 advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
159
160 Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
161 because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
162 Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
163 never really made it work for this.
164
165 Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
166
167 ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
168 using code like that of customize-groups.
169
170 ** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
171 errors.
172
173 ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
174 indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
175 Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
176 of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
177 scroll bars are extensible.
178
179 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
180 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
181 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
182
183 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
184
185 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
186
187 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
188 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
189 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
190 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
191 very early stages.
192
193 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
194 properly with variable-pitch faces.
195
196 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
197 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
198 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
199
200 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
201 (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf).
202
203 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
204 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
205 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
206 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
207 same value of this property.
208 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
209
210 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
211
212 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
213 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
214
215 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
216
217 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
218 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
219 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
220
221 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
222 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
223
224 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
225 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
226 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
227 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
228 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
229 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
230 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
231 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
232 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
233
234 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
235 be only full columns/lines.
236
237 * Other features we would like:
238
239 ** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
240 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
241 properly.
242
243 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
244 from the emacsclient process.
245 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
246 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
247
248 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
249 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
250
251 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
252
253 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
254 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
255
256 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
257 and put some other errors under it.
258
259 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
260 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
261
262 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
263
264 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
265
266 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
267 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
268 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
269 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
270 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
271
272 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
273 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
274 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
275 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
276 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
277 customization buffers.
278
279 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
280 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
281 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
282 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
283 use to view the advice.
284
285 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
286
287 ** ange-ftp
288 *** understand sftp
289 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
290 messages.
291
292 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
293
294 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
295 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
296 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
297 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
298
299 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
300 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
301 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
302 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
303 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
304 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
305 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
306 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
307 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
308
309 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
310
311 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
312 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
313 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
314
315 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
316 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
317 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
318 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
319
320 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
321 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
322 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
323 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
324 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
325 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
326
327 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
328 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
329 modifiers.
330
331 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
332 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
333 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
334 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
335 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
336 downgrade to versions that require activation.
337
338 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
339 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
340 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
341 where one language is embedded in another language. See
342 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
343 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken by others.
344
345 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
346 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
347 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
348
349 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
350 output to a different filter.
351
352 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
353 useful sense).
354
355 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
356 desktops.
357
358 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
359
360 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
361 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
362
363 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
364 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
365 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
366 when the user tries to use the menubar.
367
368 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
369 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
370 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
371 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
372
373 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
374 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
375 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
376 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
377 have been missed.
378
379 ** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
380 Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
381 python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
382 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
383 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
384 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
385 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
386
387 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
388 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
389 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
390 what else ?
391
392 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
393 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
394
395 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
396 macros in cl-macs.
397
398 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
399 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
400 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
401
402 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
403 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
404
405 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
406 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
407 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
408
409 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
410 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
411 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
412 warnings.
413
414 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
415
416 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
417 automatically.
418
419 ** Update the FAQ.
420
421 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
422 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
423
424 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
425 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
426 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
427 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
428
429 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
430 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
431 this.]
432
433 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
434
435 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
436
437 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
438
439 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
440 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
441
442 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
443 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
444 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
445
446 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
447 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
448 thought this was feasible.]
449
450 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
451 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
452 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
453
454 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
455 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
456 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
457 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
458 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
459 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
460 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
461
462 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
463 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
464 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
465
466 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
467 encodings.
468
469 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
470
471 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
472 when the body only calls primitives.
473
474 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
475
476 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
477 colors of the applicable faces.
478
479 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
480
481 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
482 or the end of the buffer.
483
484 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
485 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
486 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
487
488 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
489 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
490 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
491 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
492 attributes.
493
494 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
495 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
496 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
497 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
498
499 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
500 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
501 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
502 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
503 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
504 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
505 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
506 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
507 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
508 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
509 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
510 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
511 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
512 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
513 probably in separate manual.
514
515 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
516 the XPMs so that the color versions work generally. (Requires care
517 with the color used for the transparent regions.)
518
519 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
520 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
521 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
522 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
523
524 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
525 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
526
527 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
528 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
529 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
530 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
531 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
532 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
533 and from the calls.
534
535 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
536 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
537
538 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
539 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
540 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
541 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
542 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
543
544 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
545 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
546 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
547 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
548 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
549 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
550 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
551 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
552 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
553
554 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
555 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
556 addition to ASCII.
557
558 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
559
560 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
561 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
562
563 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
564 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
565 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
566 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
567
568 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
569 but which can also be used as a modifier).
570
571 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
572 Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of
573 lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face.
574
575 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
576 See thread
577 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
578 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
579
580 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
581 See thread
582 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
583
584 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
585 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
586 the window associated with that modeline.
587 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
588
589 * Internal changes
590
591 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
592 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
593
594 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
595 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
596 one to use when terminating the selection.
597
598 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
599 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
600 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
601
602 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
603 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
604 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
605
606 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
607 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
608 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
609 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
610 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
611
612 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
613 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
614 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
615 this.]
616
617 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
618
619 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
620 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
621 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
622 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
623 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
624
625 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11]
626 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
627 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
628 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
629 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
630 data munging.
631
632 ** Add "link" button class
633 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
634 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
635 class to the standard "link" face.
636
637 * Other known bugs:
638
639 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
640
641 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
642 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
643
644 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
645 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
646
647 \f
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