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3 | If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we |
4 | appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be | |
5 | aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do | |
6 | it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted packages, please be | |
7 | prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work | |
8 | to the FSF. | |
9 | ||
10 | Small but important fixes needed in existing features: | |
a9c1a157 | 11 | |
2cce20c0 RS |
12 | * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem |
13 | for the use of the preferred coding systems. | |
14 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
15 | * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci |
16 | on text properties in the error message lines. | |
17 | ||
18 | Important features: | |
19 | ||
5e101746 RS |
20 | * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
21 | display a font as a sample, etc. | |
22 | ||
00a18b59 DL |
23 | * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
24 | decent single definition of RTF?] | |
6165b6e3 | 25 | |
a9c1a157 RS |
26 | * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
27 | probably needs some primitive support. | |
28 | ||
29 | * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
30 | properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
31 | ||
d1c3f6b6 RS |
32 | * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows |
33 | C-v to scroll through a tall image. | |
a9c1a157 | 34 | |
6165b6e3 EZ |
35 | * Implement other text formatting properties. |
36 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
37 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
38 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
39 | same value of this property. | |
40 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
41 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
42 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. |
43 | ||
6147334f RS |
44 | * Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
45 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
46 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
47 | ||
48 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
49 | ||
50 | * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
51 | be only full columns/lines. | |
52 | ||
657c5358 KS |
53 | * Move fringe to be displayed between display margins and text area. |
54 | [KFS is looking into this]. | |
55 | ||
56 | * Set fringe widths per-window/per-buffer. | |
57 | ||
58 | * Make fringe bitmaps user configurable. Maybe add ability to add | |
59 | additional bitmaps to the fringe from lisp. | |
60 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
61 | Other features we would like: |
62 | ||
63 | * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns | |
64 | of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. | |
65 | It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. | |
6165b6e3 | 66 | |
30a2aafd RS |
67 | * Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used) |
68 | from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a | |
69 | user-selected input method, with the default being the union of | |
70 | latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix. | |
71 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
72 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
73 | different parts of a buffer. | |
74 | ||
75 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
76 | output to a different filter. | |
77 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
78 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
79 | useful sense). | |
80 | ||
8ba148c7 RS |
81 | * Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named |
82 | desktops. | |
83 | ||
a933dad1 | 84 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
e39fc314 DL |
85 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
86 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 87 | |
e39fc314 DL |
88 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
89 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
90 | |
91 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
92 | for undoing. | |
93 | ||
7665519d RS |
94 | * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. |
95 | They split off a few years ago through negligance. | |
96 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
97 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
98 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
99 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
100 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
101 | ||
102 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
103 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
0245b3ef | 104 | thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated |
a933dad1 | 105 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. |
d054101f | 106 | |
e39fc314 | 107 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
a52ce7f8 JB |
108 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS. Check the assignments file for other |
109 | packages which might go in and have been missed. | |
e39fc314 DL |
110 | |
111 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
112 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
113 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
114 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 DL |
115 | |
116 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
117 | an example how to do part of this. | |
118 | ||
119 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
120 | macros in cl-macs. | |
121 | ||
a52ce7f8 JB |
122 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA, |
123 | but it's a valuable feature worth making more general. | |
e39fc314 DL |
124 | |
125 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
126 | ||
e39fc314 DL |
127 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. |
128 | ||
129 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
130 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
131 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
132 | ||
133 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
134 | |
135 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
136 | automatically. | |
137 | ||
138 | * Update the FAQ. | |
139 | ||
b04f7626 DL |
140 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
141 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
142 | |
143 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
144 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
145 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
146 | ||
cf56d05f DL |
147 | * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
148 | more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
6147334f | 149 | holidays, quoting characters?,... |
34f70eda DL |
150 | |
151 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
152 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb | 153 | |
4dd4cc14 | 154 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 DL |
155 | |
156 | * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
52d8e4ff GM |
157 | Using libdnd might be a good start. |
158 | ||
03ff8aab | 159 | * Add horizontal scroll bars. |
00a18b59 | 160 | |
e4ded23c GM |
161 | * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
162 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
c0460c17 | 163 | |
3a84ed60 RS |
164 | * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful |
165 | things. [The integration is partly done.] | |
166 | ||
c0460c17 | 167 | * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
b09646e3 | 168 | |
8d57a345 | 169 | * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
5dcdd840 DL |
170 | compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
171 | programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
b14b5f08 EZ |
172 | |
173 | * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". | |
8bd6307f | 174 | |
296808a5 GM |
175 | * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
176 | Emacs. | |
6add099c | 177 | |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
178 | * Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program |
179 | converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). | |
180 | ||
181 | * Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer, | |
182 | e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry | |
183 | thought this was feasible.] | |
184 | ||
185 | * Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive. | |
186 | (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way | |
187 | to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse. | |
188 | ||
189 | * Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character | |
190 | is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to | |
191 | define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes | |
192 | (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include | |
193 | box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and | |
194 | tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done | |
195 | already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.] | |
196 | ||
197 | * Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it | |
198 | to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database | |
199 | access in cases which need more than Lisp. | |
200 | ||
201 | * Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra | |
202 | encodings. | |
203 | ||
204 | * Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design). | |
205 | ||
206 | * Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current | |
207 | GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed -- | |
208 | that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. | |
209 | ||
6add099c | 210 | * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. |
e641b454 | 211 | |
2a573e69 CW |
212 | * Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using |
213 | XRender/Freetype. | |
c5020b5b | 214 | |
d1c3f6b6 | 215 | * Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable. |
5e101746 RS |
216 | |
217 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
218 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
219 | ||
5005a9c0 EZ |
220 | * Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important |
221 | options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by | |
222 | either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order | |
223 | they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after | |
224 | attributes. | |
225 | ||
5e101746 RS |
226 | * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
227 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). | |
228 | This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not | |
229 | aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. | |
230 | ||
231 | Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, | |
232 | artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, | |
657c5358 | 233 | completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, |
5e101746 RS |
234 | easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], |
235 | generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit | |
236 | [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], | |
237 | mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, | |
238 | snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from | |
239 | the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, | |
240 | vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, | |
241 | swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, | |
242 | refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, | |
243 | cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, | |
244 | cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, | |
245 | probably in separate manual. |