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1Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
2
0a33da51 3Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5See the end of the file for license conditions.
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8If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
9appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
10aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
7bea57c9 11it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
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12prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
13to the FSF.
14
ba1c68de 15* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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600e5c79 17** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
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18Use emacsclient later to open frames.
19
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20** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
21variables section.
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23** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
24I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
25
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26** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
27
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28** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
29the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
30a window doesn't select it.
31
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32** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
33but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
34current buffer.
35
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36** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
37 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
38
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39** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
40 the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
41
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42** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
43
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44** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
45
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46** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
47
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48** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
49 as well as overlapping matches.
50
d3a403e5 51** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
b9e6b498 52 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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53 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
54 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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55 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
56
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57** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
58 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
59 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
60
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61** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
62 a specified time).
63
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64** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
65 variables whose values are currently hidden.
66
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67** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
68 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
69 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
70 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
71
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72** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
73
74** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
75
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76** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
77 using a heuristic of some kind?
78
79** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
80 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
81
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82** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
83 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
84 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
85 without menu and tool bar lines.
86
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87** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
88 and they should create Custom buffers.
89
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90** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
91
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92** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
93
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94** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
95
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96** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
97 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
98 recording which file the latest definition came from.
046ece71 99
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100** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
101
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102** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
103http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
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105** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
106http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
211fb124 107
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108** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
109on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
110under the keys
111HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
112and
113HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
114where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
115
ba1c68de 116* Important features:
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ba1c68de 118** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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119 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
120 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
5e101746 121
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122** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
123
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124** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
125
ba1c68de 126** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
c51b37fd 127 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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128 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
129 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
130 very early stages.
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ba1c68de 132** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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133 probably needs some primitive support.
134
ba6be78d 135** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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136 and/or add a variable to the list.
137
ba1c68de 138** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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139 properly with variable-pitch faces.
140
ba1c68de 141** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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142 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
143 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
a9c1a157 144
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145** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
146 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
147
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148** Implement other text formatting properties.
149*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
150*** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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151 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
152 same value of this property.
ba1c68de 153*** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
6165b6e3 154
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155** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
156
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157** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
158specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
159
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160** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
161
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162** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
163 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
164 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
165
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166** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
167 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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ba1c68de 169** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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170 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
171 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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172 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
173 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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174 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
175 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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176 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
177 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
a9c1a157 178
ba1c68de 179** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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180 be only full columns/lines.
181
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182* Other features we would like:
183
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184** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
185rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
0de301ed 186
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187** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
188typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
189
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190** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
191
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192** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
193 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
194
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195** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
196 and put some other errors under it.
197
1a500a73 198** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
1b2105d9 199 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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201** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
202
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203** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
204
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205** A function to check for customizable options that have been
206 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
207 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
208 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
209 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
210
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211** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
212 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
213 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
214 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
215 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
216 customization buffers.
217
e0402468 218** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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219 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
220 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
221 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
222 use to view the advice.
e0402468 223
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224** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
225
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226** ange-ftp
227*** understand sftp
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228 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
229 messages.
230
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231*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
232
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233** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
234 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
235 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
236 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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238** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
239*** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
240*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
241*** support for infix operators (with precedence).
242*** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
243*** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
244 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
245 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
246*** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
247
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248** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
249
ba1c68de 250** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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251 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
252 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
6165b6e3 253
ba1c68de 254** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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255 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
256 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
257 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
258
a7abe867 259** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
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260 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
261 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
262 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
263 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
a7abe867 264 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
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266 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
267 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
268 modifiers.
269
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270 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
271 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
272 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
273 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
274 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
275 downgrade to versions that require activation.
276
ba1c68de 277** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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278 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
279 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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280 where one language is embedded in another language. See
281 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
282 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
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284** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
285 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
286 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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ba1c68de 288** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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289 output to a different filter.
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ba1c68de 291** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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292 useful sense).
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ba1c68de 294** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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295 desktops.
296
ba1c68de 297** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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298 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
299 Love started on this.]
a933dad1 300
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301** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
302
ba1c68de 303** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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304 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
305 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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306 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
307 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
a933dad1 308
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309** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
310 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
a933dad1 311
ba1c68de 312** Change the Windows NT menu code
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313 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
314 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
315 when the user tries to use the menubar.
316
317 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
318 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
0245b3ef 319 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
a933dad1 320 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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ba1c68de 322** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
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323 significant work), PSGML, nXML [Mark Hershberger is looking at this
324 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01699.html],
325 _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
326 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
327 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
328 have been missed.
329
330** Install ruby-mode (needs assignment)?
331 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00051.html
e39fc314 332
ba1c68de 333** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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334 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
335 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
336 what else ?
e39fc314 337
ba1c68de 338** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
2fa4f835 339 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
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ba1c68de 341** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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342 macros in cl-macs.
343
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344** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
345 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
346 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
347
ba1c68de 348** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
a52ce7f8 349 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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ba1c68de 351** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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352 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
353 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
e39fc314 354
ba1c68de 355** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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356 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
357 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
358 warnings.
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ba1c68de 360** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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ba1c68de 362** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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363 automatically.
364
ba1c68de 365** Update the FAQ.
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ba1c68de 367** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
b04f7626 368 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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ba1c68de 370** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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371 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
372 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
590394eb 373 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
1265b539 374
ba1c68de 375** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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376 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
377 this.]
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ba1c68de 379** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
e2849090 380
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381** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
382
ba1c68de 383** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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ba1c68de 385** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
e4ded23c 386 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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ba1c68de 388** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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389 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
390 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
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ba1c68de 392** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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393 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
394 thought this was feasible.]
395
ba1c68de 396** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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397 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
398 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
399
ba1c68de 400** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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401 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
402 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
403 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
404 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
405 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
406 already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
407
ba1c68de 408** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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409 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
410 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
411
ba1c68de 412** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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413 encodings.
414
ba1c68de 415** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
d1c3f6b6 416
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417** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
418when the body only calls primitives.
419
ba1c68de 420** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
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ba1c68de 422** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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423 colors of the applicable faces.
424
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425** Face remapping.
426
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427** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
428
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429** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
430 or the end of the buffer.
431
ba1c68de 432** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
2a573e69 433 XRender/Freetype.
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ba1c68de 435** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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436 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
437 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
5e101746 438
ba1c68de 439** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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440 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
441 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
442 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
443 attributes.
444
ba1c68de 445** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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446 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
447 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
448 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
449
450 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
451 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
657c5358 452 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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453 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
454 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
455 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
456 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
457 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
458 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
459 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
460 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
461 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
462 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
463 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
464 probably in separate manual.
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ba1c68de 466** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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467 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
468 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
469
ba1c68de 470** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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471 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
472 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
473 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
bf6394a6 474
ba1c68de 475** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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476 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
477
ba1c68de 478** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
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479 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
480 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
481 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
482 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
483 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
484 and from the calls.
485
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486** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
487 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
488 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
489 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
490 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
491 such sizes.
492
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493** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
494 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
495
496** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
497 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
498 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
499 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
500 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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502** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
503 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
504 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
505 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
506 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
507 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
508 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
509 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
510 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
511
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512** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
513 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
514 addition to ASCII.
515
516** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
517
518** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
519 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
520 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
521 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
522 via Xft library).
523
524** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
525 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
526
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527** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
528 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
529 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
530 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
1f724d55 531
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532** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
533but which can also be used as a modifier).
534
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535** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
536 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
537 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
538 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
539 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
540
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541** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
542 See thread
543 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
544 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
545
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546** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
547 See thread
548 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
549
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550** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
551 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
552 the window associated with that modeline.
553 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
554
555** When running isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
556 then after another C-s try searching the previous ChangeLog, if
557 there is one. (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
558 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02237.html
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559 Juri Linkov has a patch for this:
560 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00265.html
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562* Internal changes
563
41a023e3 564** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
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565 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
566
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567** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
568 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
569 one to use when terminating the selection.
570
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571** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
572 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
573 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
574
575** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
576 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
577 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
578
579** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
580 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
581 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
582 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
583 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
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ba1c68de 585** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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586 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
587 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
588 this.]
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590** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
591
592** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
593 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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594 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
595 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
596 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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598** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
599 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
600 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
601 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
602 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
603 data munging.
604
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605** Add "link" button class
606 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
607 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
608 class to the standard "link" face.
609
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610* Other known bugs:
611
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612** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
613From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
614
615(define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
616(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
617
618(defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
619
620C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
621
622toto is a Lisp function.
623(toto)
624
625key binding
626- --- -------
627
628C-g abort-recursive-edit
629TAB minibuffer-complete
630C-j exit-minibuffer
631RET exit-minibuffer
632ESC Prefix Command
633SPC minibuffer-complete-word
634? minibuffer-completion-help
635C-= foo
636C-= foo
637...
638
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639** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
640not be noticed if it appears within a word.
641
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642** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
643 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
644
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645\f
646This file is part of GNU Emacs.
647
648GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
649it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
fca4a5de 650the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
5b87ad55 651any later version.
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653GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
654but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
655MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
656GNU General Public License for more details.
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658You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
659along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
660Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
661Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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