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+Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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-Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
+* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
+
+** Fix compilation when Xaw3d libraries are present but libxaw is not.
+In new X11 versions, xaw3dg-dev does not depend on libxaw-dev, so the
+latter need not be installed. As a result, all the source files that
+look for include files in X11/Xaw should look in X11/Xaw3d if we are
+using Xaw3d.
+
+** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
+
+** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
+the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
+a window doesn't select it.
+
+** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
+but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
+current buffer.
+
+** describe-face should show an example of text in the face.
+
+** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
+ on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
+
+** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
+ the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
-* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
- on text properties in the error message lines.
+** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
-* Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
+** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
+
+** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
+
+** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
+ as well as overlapping matches.
+
+** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
- the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
- ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
+ the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
+ It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
-Important features:
+** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
+ It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
+ should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
+
+** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
+ a specified time).
+
+** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
+ variables whose values are currently hidden.
+
+** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
+ specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
+ See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
+ <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
+
+** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
+
+** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
-* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
- display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual
- font selection for Emacs 22.]
+** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
+ using a heuristic of some kind?
-* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
- decent single definition of RTF?]
+** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
+ See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
-* Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
+** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
+ make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
+ tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
+ without menu and tool bar lines.
+
+** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
+ and they should create Custom buffers.
+
+** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
+
+** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
+
+** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
+
+** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
+ with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
+ recording which file the latest definition came from.
+
+** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
+
+** Improve configure's treatment of NON_GNU_CPP on Solaris.
+(patch available for after Emacs 22)
+
+** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
+
+** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
+
+* 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 the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
+
+** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
+
+** 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/.] 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.
-* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
+** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
+ and/or add a variable to the list.
+
+** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
properly with variable-pitch faces.
-* Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
- C-v to scroll through a tall image.
+** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
+ C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
+ posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
-* Implement other text formatting properties.
-** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
-** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
+** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
+ (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
+
+** Implement other text formatting properties.
+*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
+*** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
Don't break the line between two characters that have the
same value of this property.
-** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
+*** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
+
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+
+** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
+specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
+
+** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
-* Make movemail work with IMAP.
+** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
+ so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
+ This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
-* 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]
+** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
+ as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
-* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
+** 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] [The gtk
+ pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
+ enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
+ Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
+ enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
-* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
+** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
be only full columns/lines.
-* Move fringe to be displayed between display margins and text area.
- [KFS is looking into this].
+* Other features we would like:
+
+** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
+rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
+** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
+typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
+
+** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
+
+** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
+ for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
+
+** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
+ 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.
+
+** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
+
+** A function to check for customizable options that have been
+ set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
+ This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
+ to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
+ in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
+
+** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
+ and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
+ as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
+ changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
+ default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
+ customization buffers.
+
+** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
+ function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
+ " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
+ has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
+ use to view the advice.
+
+** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
+
+** ange-ftp
+*** understand sftp
+ This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
+ messages.
-* Set fringe widths per-window/per-buffer.
+*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
-* Make fringe bitmaps user configurable. Maybe add ability to add
- additional bitmaps to the fringe from lisp.
+** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
+ E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
+ M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
+ H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
-Other features we would like:
+** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
+*** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
+*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
+*** support for infix operators (with precedence).
+*** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
+*** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
+ by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
+ at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
+*** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
-* Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
+** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
+
+** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
-* Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
+** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
-* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
- different parts of a buffer.
-
-* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
+** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
+ Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
+ this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
+ Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
+ In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
+ will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
+
+ One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
+ which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
+ modifiers.
+
+ Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
+ Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
+ the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
+ and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
+ users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
+ downgrade to versions that require activation.
+
+** 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. 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
+ input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
+
+** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
output to a different filter.
-* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
+** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
useful sense).
-* Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
+** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
desktops.
-* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
+** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
Love started on this.]
-* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
+** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
+
+** 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.]
-
-* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
- for undoing.
+ use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
+ http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
-* Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
- They split off a few years ago through negligence.
+** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
+ when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
-* Change the Windows NT menu code
+** Change the Windows NT menu code
so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
when the user tries to use the menubar.
thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
-* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
+** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
packages which might go in and have been missed.
-* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
+** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
what else ?
-* Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
- an example how to do part of this.
+** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
+ an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
-* Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
+** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
macros in cl-macs.
-* Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
+** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
+ smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
+ compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
+
+** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
-* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
+** Support simultaneous tty and X frames. [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs
+ at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.]
-* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
+** 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.
- They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
+** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
+ 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.
+** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
-* Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
+** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
automatically.
-* Update the FAQ.
+** Update the FAQ.
-* Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
+** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
[It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
-* Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
+** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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?,...
-
-* Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
+** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
this.]
-* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
+** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
-* Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
- Using libdnd might be a good start.
+** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
-* Add horizontal scroll bars.
+** Add horizontal scroll bars.
-* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
+** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-* Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
-
-* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
- compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
- programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.
-
-* Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".
-
-* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
+** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
Emacs.
-* Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
+** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
-* Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
+** Display images with alpha channels, such as png, with the current
+background color of whatever frame it is displayed in. Currently, we
+use the default background color if specified in the png file, or, if
+that is unspecified, the background color of the frame in which the
+image was first created. Ideally, the image should display the
+background color of whichever frame it is being displayed in. The
+main complication is that this will require the loading of a new image
+object for each different background color.
+
+** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
thought this was feasible.]
-* Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
+** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
(Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
-* Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
+** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
(with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
-* Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
+** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
access in cases which need more than Lisp.
-* Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
+** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
encodings.
-* Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
+** 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. [fx has mostly done
- this.]
+** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
+when the body only calls primitives.
-* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
+** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
-* Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
+** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
colors of the applicable faces.
-* Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
- XRender/Freetype.
+** Face remapping.
-* Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
+** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
-* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
- to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
+** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
+ or the end of the buffer.
-* Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
+** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
+ XRender/Freetype.
+
+** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
+ 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
either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
attributes.
-* Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
+** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
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
+** 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
+** 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.
+** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
+ i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
+
+** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
+ `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
+ Whenever possible, use value 'string.
+ When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
+ If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
+ the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
+ and from the calls.
+
+** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
+ The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
+ stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
+ overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
+ 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
+ such sizes.
+
+** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
+ only the variable `current-language-environment'.
+
+** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
+ better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
+ environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
+ are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
+ better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
+
+** 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.]
+
+** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
+ Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
+ addition to ASCII.
+
+** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
+
+** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
+ As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
+ in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
+ fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
+ via Xft library).
+
+** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
+ space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
+
+** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
+ in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
+ "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
+ packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
+
+** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
+but which can also be used as a modifier).
+
+** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
+ Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
+ Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
+ e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
+ for this for inclusion after 22.1].
+
+** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
+ See thread
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
+ [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
+
+** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
+ See thread
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
+
+* Internal changes
+
+** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
+ since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
+
+** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
+ More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
+ or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
+
+** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
+ This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
+ Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
+
+** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
+ Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
+ a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
+ into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
+ we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
+
+** 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. [fx has mostly done
+ this.]
+
+** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
+
+** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
+ offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
+ comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
+ For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
+ haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
+
+** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
+ All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
+ C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
+ switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
+ allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
+ data munging.
+
+** Add "link" button class
+ Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
+ button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
+ class to the standard "link" face.
+
+* Other known bugs:
+
+** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
+not be noticed if it appears within a word.
+
+** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
+ sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
+
+\f
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