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1 | Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*- |
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114f9c96 | 3 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 |
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4 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5 | See the end of the file for license conditions. | |
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8 | If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we |
9 | appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be | |
10 | aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do | |
7bea57c9 | 11 | it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be |
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12 | prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work |
13 | to the FSF. | |
14 | ||
bbbab483 SM |
15 | * Tentative plan for Emacs-24 |
16 | ||
17 | ** Bidi | |
18 | ** lexbind: I haven't checked the status of the code recently, so | |
19 | I don't know how realistic it is to include it. But it's been around | |
20 | for a long time, and I trust Miles, so I have hope. | |
21 | ** concurrency: including it as an "experimental" compile-time option | |
22 | sounds good. Of course there might still be big questions around | |
23 | "which form of concurrency" we'll want. | |
24 | ** Overhaul of customize: sounds wonderful. | |
25 | ** some kind of color-theme: agreed. | |
26 | ** better support for dynamic embedded graphics: I like this idea (my | |
27 | mpc.el code could use it for the volume widget), tho I wonder if the | |
28 | resulting efficiency will be sufficient. | |
29 | ** Spread Semantic. | |
30 | ** Improve the "code snippets" support: consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el, | |
31 | and expand.el (any other?) and then advertise/use/improve it. | |
32 | ** Improve VC: yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-( | |
33 | And most of it could/should make it into Emacs-23.3. | |
34 | ** package manager. | |
35 | ||
36 | ** Random things that cross my mind right now that I'd like to see (some of | |
37 | them from my local hacks), but it's not obvious at all whether they'll | |
38 | make it. | |
39 | *** multiple inheritance for keymaps (to get rid of the | |
40 | fix_submap_inheritance hack and to more cleanly express the | |
41 | relationship between minibuffer-local-*-map): I've had this locally | |
42 | for a long time, but the details of the semantics is somewhat ... delicate. | |
38b8b326 GM |
43 | *** Derive from prog-mode in more places, close bug#5532. |
44 | *** prog-mode could/should provide a better fill-paragraph default | |
45 | that uses syntax-tables to recognize string/comment boundaries. | |
bbbab483 SM |
46 | *** provide more completion-at-point-functions. Make existing |
47 | in-buffer completion use completion-at-point. | |
48 | *** "functional" function-key-map that would make it easy to add (and | |
49 | remove) mappings like "FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down", | |
50 | "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t", "uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] -> | |
51 | [KEY]", "H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ... | |
52 | ||
53 | ||
54 | * Simple tasks. These don't require much Emacs knowledge, they are | |
c884b4d7 DN |
55 | suitable for anyone from beginners to experts. |
56 | ||
bfb906ac DN |
57 | ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead. |
58 | ||
9fe219e3 DN |
59 | ** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf. |
60 | ||
c884b4d7 | 61 | ** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do |
bfb906ac | 62 | not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode. |
c884b4d7 | 63 | |
479be3f4 | 64 | ** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes. |
c884b4d7 | 65 | |
4e0ace23 DN |
66 | ** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar. |
67 | It can use the same icons as gud. | |
68 | ||
c884b4d7 DN |
69 | ** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them |
70 | to use it. | |
71 | ||
6d095958 GM |
72 | ** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms |
73 | of appropriate :type and :group. | |
74 | ||
63e51ddd GM |
75 | ** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings. |
76 | ||
77 | ** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms. | |
78 | This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to | |
79 | expecting such variables to always be defined, eg when they modify | |
80 | things in their .emacs. | |
81 | ||
115f44b6 GM |
82 | ** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print). |
83 | ||
ba1c68de | 84 | * Small but important fixes needed in existing features: |
a9c1a157 | 85 | |
cc48343f RS |
86 | ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer |
87 | levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to | |
88 | understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation | |
89 | command it will use. | |
90 | ||
91 | I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest | |
92 | mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy | |
93 | for users to customize. | |
94 | ||
0989e765 SM |
95 | ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event. |
96 | ||
046ece71 KS |
97 | ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs |
98 | on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?). | |
99 | ||
d322eb9b RS |
100 | ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local. |
101 | ||
125fbe81 | 102 | ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark. |
045744c6 MR |
103 | For related problems consult the thread starting with |
104 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html | |
125fbe81 | 105 | |
f98abf6d RS |
106 | ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text. |
107 | ||
d3a403e5 | 108 | ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment, |
b9e6b498 | 109 | invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of |
2345130a SM |
110 | the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. |
111 | It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a | |
b9e6b498 GM |
112 | text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring. |
113 | ||
6f771c32 RS |
114 | ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading. |
115 | It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom | |
116 | should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call. | |
117 | ||
af09dd78 RS |
118 | ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than |
119 | a specified time). | |
120 | ||
4e07258f RS |
121 | ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit |
122 | variables whose values are currently hidden. | |
123 | ||
ec0cf966 RS |
124 | ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to |
125 | specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions. | |
126 | See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable | |
127 | <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>. | |
128 | ||
528b6abc RS |
129 | ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move). |
130 | ||
f98abf6d RS |
131 | ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first, |
132 | using a heuristic of some kind? | |
133 | ||
134 | ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use. | |
135 | See rms message of 11 Dec 05. | |
136 | ||
7c14546c JD |
137 | ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to |
138 | make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and | |
139 | tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height | |
140 | without menu and tool bar lines. | |
141 | ||
f98abf6d RS |
142 | ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable |
143 | and they should create Custom buffers. | |
144 | ||
321e4870 RS |
145 | ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips. |
146 | ||
74561a26 RS |
147 | ** Add function to redraw the tool bar. |
148 | ||
5a893bff RS |
149 | ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better |
150 | with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files, | |
151 | recording which file the latest definition came from. | |
046ece71 | 152 | |
4b4d11cc RS |
153 | ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent. |
154 | ||
67ccd6cb GM |
155 | ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn. |
156 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html | |
157 | ||
158 | ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding. | |
159 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html | |
211fb124 | 160 | |
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161 | ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info' |
162 | on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry, | |
163 | under the keys | |
164 | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\ | |
165 | and | |
166 | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\ | |
167 | where <device> is the network device found under the first key. | |
168 | ||
4af1faa3 GM |
169 | ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands. |
170 | Change them to use report-emacs-bug. | |
171 | ||
7a00b900 NR |
172 | ** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?) |
173 | ||
d73803e6 CY |
174 | ** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files, |
175 | like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files. | |
176 | ||
b1a345ee MR |
177 | ** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for |
178 | dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'. | |
179 | ||
48abcfcc GM |
180 | ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling. |
181 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html | |
182 | ||
ba1c68de | 183 | * Important features: |
a9c1a157 | 184 | |
cc48343f RS |
185 | ** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it. |
186 | ||
187 | ** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have | |
188 | had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the | |
189 | beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take | |
190 | advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good. | |
191 | ||
192 | Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f | |
193 | because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In | |
194 | Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have | |
195 | never really made it work for this. | |
196 | ||
197 | Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs. | |
198 | ||
199 | ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism | |
200 | using code like that of customize-groups. | |
201 | ||
202 | ** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation | |
203 | errors. | |
204 | ||
205 | ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar, | |
206 | indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors. | |
207 | Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top | |
208 | of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit | |
209 | scroll bars are extensible. | |
210 | ||
ba1c68de | 211 | ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
321e4870 RS |
212 | list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at |
213 | multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.] | |
5e101746 | 214 | |
3aa7c28e RS |
215 | ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse. |
216 | ||
09d04fb3 | 217 | ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster. |
5e101746 | 218 | |
ba1c68de | 219 | ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
c51b37fd | 220 | decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at |
1b2105d9 EZ |
221 | http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed |
222 | by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in | |
223 | very early stages. | |
6165b6e3 | 224 | |
ba1c68de | 225 | ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling |
a9c1a157 RS |
226 | properly with variable-pitch faces. |
227 | ||
ba1c68de | 228 | ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows |
d3a403e5 SM |
229 | C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations |
230 | posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp. | |
a9c1a157 | 231 | |
6ca1c497 | 232 | ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace |
cbdf1202 | 233 | (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf). |
6ca1c497 | 234 | |
ba1c68de SM |
235 | ** Implement other text formatting properties. |
236 | *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
237 | *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
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238 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the |
239 | same value of this property. | |
ba1c68de | 240 | *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. |
6165b6e3 | 241 | |
ec0cf966 RS |
242 | ** Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
243 | ||
4a7499a9 RS |
244 | ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during |
245 | specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks. | |
246 | ||
49322539 RS |
247 | ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change. |
248 | ||
07ff1e4b RS |
249 | ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point, |
250 | so that motion commands can also move through tall images. | |
251 | This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start. | |
252 | ||
ec0cf966 RS |
253 | ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially |
254 | as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. | |
a9c1a157 | 255 | |
ba1c68de | 256 | ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This |
bf6394a6 DL |
257 | probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly |
258 | in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the | |
f677a3a3 SM |
259 | pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good |
260 | enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk | |
7bea57c9 DL |
261 | port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as |
262 | Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.] | |
f677a3a3 SM |
263 | Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good |
264 | enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8. | |
a9c1a157 | 265 | |
ba1c68de | 266 | ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can |
a9c1a157 RS |
267 | be only full columns/lines. |
268 | ||
ba1c68de SM |
269 | * Other features we would like: |
270 | ||
22f9eb9e CY |
271 | ** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead |
272 | of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled | |
273 | properly. | |
274 | ||
c3bb6fdb SM |
275 | ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment |
276 | from the emacsclient process. | |
a37288ad SM |
277 | ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp |
278 | rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el. | |
0de301ed | 279 | |
a53e64cc SM |
280 | ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are |
281 | typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. | |
282 | ||
39eadb4a RS |
283 | ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode. |
284 | ||
9b8453da RS |
285 | ** Create a category of errors called `process-error' |
286 | for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses. | |
287 | ||
51f74c37 RS |
288 | ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors |
289 | and put some other errors under it. | |
290 | ||
1a500a73 | 291 | ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions. |
1b2105d9 | 292 | See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el. |
1a500a73 RS |
293 | |
294 | ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide. | |
295 | ||
9f4ba075 CY |
296 | ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers. |
297 | ||
f95a20e7 RS |
298 | ** A function to check for customizable options that have been |
299 | set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them. | |
300 | This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people | |
301 | to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them | |
302 | in a Custom buffer using customize-customized. | |
303 | ||
8c9676fb DK |
304 | ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables |
305 | and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button, | |
306 | as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default | |
307 | changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed | |
308 | default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective | |
309 | customization buffers. | |
310 | ||
e0402468 | 311 | ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every |
8c9676fb DK |
312 | function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like |
313 | " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function | |
314 | has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could | |
315 | use to view the advice. | |
e0402468 | 316 | |
17e55b2a RS |
317 | ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay. |
318 | ||
9c9c88db SM |
319 | ** ange-ftp |
320 | *** understand sftp | |
1b2105d9 EZ |
321 | This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status |
322 | messages. | |
323 | ||
9c9c88db SM |
324 | *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified. |
325 | ||
ba1c68de SM |
326 | ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations. |
327 | E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up | |
328 | M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 -> | |
329 | H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ... | |
a9c1a157 | 330 | |
ba1c68de SM |
331 | ** Beefed-up syntax-tables. |
332 | *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'. | |
333 | *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings). | |
334 | *** support for infix operators (with precedence). | |
335 | *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp. | |
336 | *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified | |
337 | by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment | |
338 | at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way. | |
339 | *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state. | |
340 | ||
2d1ef312 RS |
341 | ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code. |
342 | ||
ba1c68de | 343 | ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns |
a9c1a157 RS |
344 | of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. |
345 | It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. | |
6165b6e3 | 346 | |
ba1c68de | 347 | ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used) |
30a2aafd RS |
348 | from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a |
349 | user-selected input method, with the default being the union of | |
350 | latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix. | |
351 | ||
a7abe867 | 352 | ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe). |
2fa4f835 EZ |
353 | Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx, |
354 | this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register | |
355 | Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode. | |
356 | In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input, | |
a7abe867 | 357 | will then come in encoded in UTF-16. |
2fa4f835 EZ |
358 | |
359 | One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage, | |
360 | which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with | |
361 | modifiers. | |
362 | ||
a7abe867 RS |
363 | Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the |
364 | Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all | |
365 | the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP | |
366 | and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure | |
367 | users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to | |
368 | downgrade to versions that require activation. | |
369 | ||
ba1c68de | 370 | ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
06382b71 RS |
371 | different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing |
372 | Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text | |
1b2105d9 EZ |
373 | where one language is embedded in another language. See |
374 | http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also | |
8b5e9361 | 375 | mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken by others. |
a933dad1 | 376 | |
b76781cd RS |
377 | ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character |
378 | immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with | |
379 | input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a. | |
a933dad1 | 380 | |
ba1c68de | 381 | ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error |
a933dad1 DL |
382 | output to a different filter. |
383 | ||
ba1c68de | 384 | ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
a933dad1 DL |
385 | useful sense). |
386 | ||
ba1c68de | 387 | ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named |
8ba148c7 RS |
388 | desktops. |
389 | ||
10bb671b RS |
390 | ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode. |
391 | ||
06382b71 RS |
392 | ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it |
393 | when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity. | |
a933dad1 | 394 | |
ba1c68de | 395 | ** Change the Windows NT menu code |
a933dad1 DL |
396 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids |
397 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
398 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
399 | ||
400 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
401 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
0245b3ef | 402 | thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated |
a933dad1 | 403 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. |
d054101f | 404 | |
ba1c68de | 405 | ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs |
93a759ba | 406 | significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB. |
590394eb GM |
407 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html |
408 | Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and | |
409 | have been missed. | |
410 | ||
7d6f3b3a GM |
411 | ** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two. |
412 | Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial | |
413 | python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments. | |
414 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html | |
415 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html | |
416 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html | |
417 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html | |
418 | ||
ba1c68de | 419 | ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of |
5dd31b13 SM |
420 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
421 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
422 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 | 423 | |
ba1c68de | 424 | ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as |
2fa4f835 | 425 | an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c. |
e39fc314 | 426 | |
ba1c68de | 427 | ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler |
e39fc314 DL |
428 | macros in cl-macs. |
429 | ||
261b01c6 RS |
430 | ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time |
431 | smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being | |
432 | compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them. | |
433 | ||
ba1c68de | 434 | ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA, |
a52ce7f8 | 435 | but it's a valuable feature worth making more general. |
e39fc314 | 436 | |
ba1c68de | 437 | ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe |
bf6394a6 DL |
438 | not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at |
439 | this and can say where some of the problems are.] | |
e39fc314 | 440 | |
ba1c68de | 441 | ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char |
1b2105d9 EZ |
442 | mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on |
443 | various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important | |
444 | warnings. | |
e39fc314 | 445 | |
ba1c68de | 446 | ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. |
eaf67bae | 447 | |
ba1c68de | 448 | ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies |
eaf67bae DL |
449 | automatically. |
450 | ||
ba1c68de | 451 | ** Update the FAQ. |
eaf67bae | 452 | |
ba1c68de | 453 | ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
b04f7626 | 454 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] |
1265b539 | 455 | |
ba1c68de | 456 | ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus |
1265b539 DL |
457 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the |
458 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
590394eb | 459 | [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?] |
1265b539 | 460 | |
ba1c68de | 461 | ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use |
7bea57c9 DL |
462 | the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on |
463 | this.] | |
19cc91fb | 464 | |
ba1c68de | 465 | ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 | 466 | |
a5bd14d3 RS |
467 | ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes. |
468 | ||
ba1c68de | 469 | ** Add horizontal scroll bars. |
00a18b59 | 470 | |
ba1c68de | 471 | ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
e4ded23c | 472 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. |
c0460c17 | 473 | |
ba1c68de | 474 | ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program |
590394eb GM |
475 | converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does |
476 | doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?] | |
d1c3f6b6 | 477 | |
ba1c68de | 478 | ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer, |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
479 | e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry |
480 | thought this was feasible.] | |
481 | ||
ba1c68de | 482 | ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive. |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
483 | (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way |
484 | to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse. | |
485 | ||
ba1c68de | 486 | ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
487 | is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to |
488 | define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes | |
489 | (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include | |
490 | box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and | |
491 | tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done | |
8589dc17 | 492 | already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.] |
d1c3f6b6 | 493 | |
ba1c68de | 494 | ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
495 | to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database |
496 | access in cases which need more than Lisp. | |
497 | ||
ba1c68de | 498 | ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra |
d1c3f6b6 RS |
499 | encodings. |
500 | ||
ba1c68de | 501 | ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design). |
d1c3f6b6 | 502 | |
48b194fd | 503 | ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args |
8b5e9361 | 504 | when the body only calls primitives. |
48b194fd | 505 | |
ba1c68de | 506 | ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. |
e641b454 | 507 | |
ba1c68de | 508 | ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background |
51fe665a RS |
509 | colors of the applicable faces. |
510 | ||
ec68482b RS |
511 | ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'. |
512 | ||
fda12b27 RS |
513 | ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line |
514 | or the end of the buffer. | |
515 | ||
ba1c68de | 516 | ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector |
1b2105d9 EZ |
517 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note |
518 | that Boehm garbage collector provides this. | |
5e101746 | 519 | |
ba1c68de | 520 | ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important |
5005a9c0 EZ |
521 | options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by |
522 | either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order | |
523 | they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after | |
524 | attributes. | |
525 | ||
ba1c68de | 526 | ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
5e101746 RS |
527 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). |
528 | This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not | |
529 | aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. | |
530 | ||
531 | Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, | |
532 | artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, | |
657c5358 | 533 | completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, |
5e101746 RS |
534 | easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], |
535 | generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit | |
536 | [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], | |
537 | mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, | |
538 | snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from | |
539 | the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, | |
540 | vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, | |
541 | swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, | |
542 | refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, | |
543 | cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, | |
544 | cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, | |
545 | probably in separate manual. | |
758830ba | 546 | |
ba1c68de | 547 | ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap |
6772c8e1 GM |
548 | the XPMs so that the color versions work generally. (Requires care |
549 | with the color used for the transparent regions.) | |
bf6394a6 | 550 | |
ba1c68de | 551 | ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an |
758830ba JB |
552 | interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the |
553 | list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some | |
554 | other variable, without changing the value of `values'. | |
bf6394a6 | 555 | |
ba1c68de | 556 | ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly, |
c51b37fd DL |
557 | i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'. |
558 | ||
ba1c68de | 559 | ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and |
9ac8c83b LH |
560 | `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used. |
561 | Whenever possible, use value 'string. | |
562 | When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string. | |
563 | If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from | |
564 | the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes' | |
565 | and from the calls. | |
566 | ||
cf4c9271 KH |
567 | ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize |
568 | only the variable `current-language-environment'. | |
569 | ||
570 | ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit | |
571 | better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language | |
572 | environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale | |
573 | are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is | |
574 | better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system. | |
1f724d55 | 575 | |
321e4870 RS |
576 | ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset |
577 | orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale | |
578 | to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell | |
579 | dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting | |
580 | characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for | |
581 | sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for | |
582 | directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies, | |
583 | common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info' | |
584 | needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.] | |
585 | ||
1f724d55 KH |
586 | ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print. |
587 | Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in | |
588 | addition to ASCII. | |
589 | ||
590 | ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts. | |
591 | ||
1f724d55 KH |
592 | ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use |
593 | space at word boundary (e.g. Thai). | |
594 | ||
cf4c9271 KH |
595 | ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server |
596 | in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method | |
597 | "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external | |
598 | packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM. | |
1f724d55 | 599 | |
a53e64cc | 600 | ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\ |
8b5e9361 | 601 | but which can also be used as a modifier). |
a53e64cc | 602 | |
d59e3c42 | 603 | ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like |
8b5e9361 GM |
604 | Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of |
605 | lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. | |
d59e3c42 | 606 | |
5a473319 GM |
607 | ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable. |
608 | See thread | |
609 | <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>. | |
610 | [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1] | |
611 | ||
9e21382c GM |
612 | ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly. |
613 | See thread | |
614 | <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html> | |
615 | ||
590394eb GM |
616 | ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline. |
617 | The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes | |
618 | the window associated with that modeline. | |
619 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html | |
620 | ||
ba1c68de SM |
621 | * Internal changes |
622 | ||
41a023e3 | 623 | ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction |
dcbccc4d CY |
624 | since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself. |
625 | ||
12cdb1c1 SM |
626 | ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name. |
627 | Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the | |
628 | one to use when terminating the selection. | |
629 | ||
1d919365 SM |
630 | ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el. |
631 | More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default, | |
632 | or just an extension of buff-menu.el. | |
633 | ||
634 | ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode. | |
635 | This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code. | |
636 | Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ... | |
637 | ||
638 | ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el. | |
639 | Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be | |
640 | a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split | |
641 | into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as | |
642 | we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el. | |
045744c6 | 643 | |
ba1c68de | 644 | ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current |
1d919365 SM |
645 | GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed -- |
646 | that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done | |
647 | this.] | |
ba1c68de SM |
648 | |
649 | ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable. | |
650 | ||
651 | ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations | |
652 | offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior | |
d3a403e5 SM |
653 | comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic. |
654 | For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode, | |
655 | haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ... | |
ba1c68de | 656 | |
8b5e9361 | 657 | ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11] |
7cef6228 CY |
658 | All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that |
659 | C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we | |
660 | switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the | |
661 | allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about | |
662 | data munging. | |
663 | ||
f57dad5a MB |
664 | ** Add "link" button class |
665 | Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like | |
666 | button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button | |
667 | class to the standard "link" face. | |
668 | ||
2345130a SM |
669 | * Other known bugs: |
670 | ||
c3bb6fdb | 671 | ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames. |
48b8e4a0 | 672 | |
2345130a SM |
673 | ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will |
674 | not be noticed if it appears within a word. | |
675 | ||
07ff1e4b RS |
676 | ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local |
677 | sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX. | |
678 | ||
5b87ad55 GM |
679 | \f |
680 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
681 | ||
ab73e885 | 682 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
5b87ad55 | 683 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
ab73e885 GM |
684 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
685 | (at your option) any later version. | |
309920fa | 686 | |
5b87ad55 GM |
687 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
688 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
689 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
690 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
309920fa | 691 | |
5b87ad55 | 692 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
ab73e885 | 693 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
309920fa | 694 | |
ab5796a9 | 695 | ;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036 |