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e39fc314 | 1 | -*-text-*- |
19cc91fb | 2 | |
2cce20c0 RS |
3 | * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem |
4 | for the use of the preferred coding systems. | |
5 | ||
5e101746 RS |
6 | * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
7 | display a font as a sample, etc. | |
8 | ||
9 | * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns | |
10 | of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. | |
11 | It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. | |
19cc91fb | 12 | |
00a18b59 DL |
13 | * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
14 | decent single definition of RTF?] | |
6165b6e3 EZ |
15 | |
16 | * Implement other text formatting properties. | |
17 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
18 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
19 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
20 | same value of this property. | |
21 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
22 | ||
e39fc314 DL |
23 | * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
24 | probably needs some primitive support. | |
6165b6e3 | 25 | |
a933dad1 DL |
26 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
27 | different parts of a buffer. | |
28 | ||
29 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
30 | output to a different filter. | |
31 | ||
32 | * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
33 | on text properties in the error message lines. | |
34 | ||
35 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
36 | useful sense). | |
37 | ||
38 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
39 | ||
40 | * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
41 | so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
42 | ||
43 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file | |
e39fc314 DL |
44 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
45 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 46 | |
e39fc314 DL |
47 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
48 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
49 | |
50 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
51 | for undoing. | |
52 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
53 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
54 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
55 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
56 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
57 | ||
58 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
59 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
60 | thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
61 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
d054101f | 62 | |
e39fc314 | 63 | * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
da1608d9 | 64 | |
e39fc314 DL |
65 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
66 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
67 | assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
68 | missed. | |
69 | ||
70 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
71 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
72 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
73 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 DL |
74 | |
75 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
76 | an example how to do part of this. | |
77 | ||
78 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
79 | macros in cl-macs. | |
80 | ||
81 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
82 | ||
83 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
84 | ||
85 | * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
86 | properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
87 | ||
88 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
89 | ||
90 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
91 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
92 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
93 | ||
94 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
95 | |
96 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
97 | automatically. | |
98 | ||
99 | * Update the FAQ. | |
100 | ||
b04f7626 DL |
101 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
102 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
103 | |
104 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
105 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
106 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
107 | ||
cf56d05f DL |
108 | * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
109 | more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
110 | holidays... | |
34f70eda DL |
111 | |
112 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
113 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb | 114 | |
e2849090 | 115 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
19cc91fb GM |
116 | |
117 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
118 | ||
4dd4cc14 | 119 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 DL |
120 | |
121 | * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
52d8e4ff GM |
122 | Using libdnd might be a good start. |
123 | ||
124 | * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
125 | be only full columns/lines. | |
03ff8aab GM |
126 | |
127 | * Add horizontal scroll bars. | |
00a18b59 | 128 | |
e4ded23c GM |
129 | * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
130 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
c0460c17 | 131 | |
3a84ed60 RS |
132 | * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility. |
133 | ||
134 | * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful | |
135 | things. [The integration is partly done.] | |
136 | ||
c0460c17 | 137 | * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
b09646e3 | 138 | |
8d57a345 | 139 | * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
5dcdd840 DL |
140 | compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
141 | programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
b14b5f08 EZ |
142 | |
143 | * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". | |
8bd6307f GM |
144 | |
145 | * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
146 | another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
147 | ||
296808a5 GM |
148 | * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
149 | Emacs. | |
6add099c GM |
150 | |
151 | * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
e641b454 GM |
152 | |
153 | * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. | |
5e101746 RS |
154 | |
155 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
156 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
157 | ||
158 | * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or | |
159 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). | |
160 | This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not | |
161 | aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. | |
162 | ||
163 | Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, | |
164 | artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, | |
165 | completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, | |
166 | easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], | |
167 | generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit | |
168 | [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], | |
169 | mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, | |
170 | snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from | |
171 | the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, | |
172 | vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, | |
173 | swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, | |
174 | refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, | |
175 | cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, | |
176 | cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, | |
177 | probably in separate manual. |