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1Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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1bb97e22 3Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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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
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15* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
16suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
17
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18** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t.
19
20** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
21
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22** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
23not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode,
76be286d 24change-log-mode, texinfo-mode, nroff-mode, reb-mode.
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26** Change the text for the mode-line tooltips to not use things like C-x 0.
27In general make sure that tooltips have obvious meanings. Check if
28all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip.
29
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30** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
31It can use the same icons as gud.
32
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33** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
34to use it.
35
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36** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
37of appropriate :type and :group.
38
ba1c68de 39* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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41** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
42levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
43understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
44command it will use.
45
46I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
47mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
48for users to customize.
49
600e5c79 50** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
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51Use emacsclient later to open frames.
52
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53** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
54variables section.
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56** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
57I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
58
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59** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
60
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61** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
62 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
63
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64** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
65
125fbe81 66** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
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67 For related problems consult the thread starting with
68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
125fbe81 69
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70** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
71
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72** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
73 as well as overlapping matches.
74
d3a403e5 75** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
b9e6b498 76 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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77 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
78 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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79 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
80
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81** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
82 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
83 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
84
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85** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
86 a specified time).
87
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88** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
89 variables whose values are currently hidden.
90
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91** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
92 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
93 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
94 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
95
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96** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
97
98** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
99
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100** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
101 using a heuristic of some kind?
102
103** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
104 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
105
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106** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
107 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
108 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
109 without menu and tool bar lines.
110
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111** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
112 and they should create Custom buffers.
113
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114** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
115
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116** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
117
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118** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
119
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120** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
121 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
122 recording which file the latest definition came from.
046ece71 123
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124** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
125
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126** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
127http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
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129** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
130http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
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132** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
133on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
134under the keys
135HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
136and
137HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
138where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
139
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140** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
141Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
142
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143** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
144
ba1c68de 145* Important features:
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147** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
148
149** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
150had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
151beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
152advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
153
154Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
155because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
156Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
157never really made it work for this.
158
159Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
160
161** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
162using code like that of customize-groups.
163
164** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
165errors.
166
167** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
168indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
169Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
170of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
171scroll bars are extensible.
172
ba1c68de 173** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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174 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
175 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
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177** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
178
09d04fb3 179** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
5e101746 180
ba1c68de 181** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
c51b37fd 182 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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183 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
184 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
185 very early stages.
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ba1c68de 187** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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188 probably needs some primitive support.
189
ba6be78d 190** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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191 and/or add a variable to the list.
192
ba1c68de 193** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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194 properly with variable-pitch faces.
195
ba1c68de 196** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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197 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
198 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
a9c1a157 199
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200** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
201 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
202
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203** Implement other text formatting properties.
204*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
205*** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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206 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
207 same value of this property.
ba1c68de 208*** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
6165b6e3 209
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210** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
211
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212** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
213specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
214
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215** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
216
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217** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
218 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
219 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
220
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221** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
222 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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ba1c68de 224** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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225 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
226 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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227 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
228 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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229 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
230 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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231 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
232 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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ba1c68de 234** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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235 be only full columns/lines.
236
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237* Other features we would like:
238
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239** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
240 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
241 properly.
242
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243** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
244from the emacsclient process.
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245** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
246rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
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248** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
249typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
250
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251** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
252
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253** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
254 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
255
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256** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
257 and put some other errors under it.
258
1a500a73 259** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
1b2105d9 260 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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262** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
263
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264** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
265
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266** A function to check for customizable options that have been
267 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
268 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
269 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
270 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
271
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272** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
273 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
274 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
275 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
276 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
277 customization buffers.
278
e0402468 279** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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280 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
281 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
282 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
283 use to view the advice.
e0402468 284
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285** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
286
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287** ange-ftp
288*** understand sftp
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289 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
290 messages.
291
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292*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
293
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294** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
295 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
296 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
297 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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299** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
300*** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
301*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
302*** support for infix operators (with precedence).
303*** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
304*** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
305 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
306 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
307*** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
308
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309** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
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ba1c68de 311** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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312 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
313 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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ba1c68de 315** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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316 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
317 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
318 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
319
a7abe867 320** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
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321 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
322 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
323 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
324 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
a7abe867 325 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
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327 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
328 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
329 modifiers.
330
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331 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
332 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
333 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
334 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
335 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
336 downgrade to versions that require activation.
337
ba1c68de 338** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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339 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
340 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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341 where one language is embedded in another language. See
342 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
343 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
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345** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
346 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
347 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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ba1c68de 349** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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350 output to a different filter.
351
ba1c68de 352** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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353 useful sense).
354
ba1c68de 355** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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356 desktops.
357
ba1c68de 358** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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359 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
360 Love started on this.]
a933dad1 361
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362** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
363
ba1c68de 364** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
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365 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
366 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
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367 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
368 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
a933dad1 369
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370** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
371 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
a933dad1 372
ba1c68de 373** Change the Windows NT menu code
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374 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
375 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
376 when the user tries to use the menubar.
377
378 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
379 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
0245b3ef 380 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
a933dad1 381 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
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ba1c68de 383** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
93a759ba 384 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
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385 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
386 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
387 have been missed.
388
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389** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
390Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
391python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
392http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
393http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
394http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
395http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
396
ba1c68de 397** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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398 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
399 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
400 what else ?
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ba1c68de 402** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
2fa4f835 403 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
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ba1c68de 405** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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406 macros in cl-macs.
407
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408** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
409 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
410 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
411
ba1c68de 412** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
a52ce7f8 413 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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ba1c68de 415** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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416 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
417 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
e39fc314 418
ba1c68de 419** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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420 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
421 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
422 warnings.
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ba1c68de 424** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
eaf67bae 425
ba1c68de 426** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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427 automatically.
428
ba1c68de 429** Update the FAQ.
eaf67bae 430
ba1c68de 431** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
b04f7626 432 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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ba1c68de 434** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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435 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
436 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
590394eb 437 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
1265b539 438
ba1c68de 439** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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440 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
441 this.]
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ba1c68de 443** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
e2849090 444
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445** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
446
ba1c68de 447** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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ba1c68de 449** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
e4ded23c 450 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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ba1c68de 452** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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453 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
454 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
d1c3f6b6 455
ba1c68de 456** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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457 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
458 thought this was feasible.]
459
ba1c68de 460** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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461 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
462 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
463
ba1c68de 464** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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465 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
466 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
467 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
468 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
469 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
8589dc17 470 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
d1c3f6b6 471
ba1c68de 472** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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473 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
474 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
475
ba1c68de 476** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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477 encodings.
478
ba1c68de 479** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
d1c3f6b6 480
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481** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
482when the body only calls primitives.
483
ba1c68de 484** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
e641b454 485
ba1c68de 486** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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487 colors of the applicable faces.
488
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489** Face remapping.
490
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491** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
492
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493** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
494 or the end of the buffer.
495
ba1c68de 496** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
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497 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
498 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
5e101746 499
ba1c68de 500** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
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501 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
502 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
503 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
504 attributes.
505
ba1c68de 506** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
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507 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
508 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
509 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
510
511 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
512 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
657c5358 513 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
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514 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
515 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
516 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
517 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
518 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
519 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
520 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
521 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
522 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
523 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
524 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
525 probably in separate manual.
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ba1c68de 527** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
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528 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
529 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
530
ba1c68de 531** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
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532 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
533 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
534 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
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ba1c68de 536** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
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537 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
538
ba1c68de 539** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
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540 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
541 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
542 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
543 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
544 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
545 and from the calls.
546
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548 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
549 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
550 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
551 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
552 such sizes.
553
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554** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
555 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
556
557** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
558 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
559 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
560 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
561 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
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563** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
564 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
565 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
566 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
567 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
568 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
569 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
570 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
571 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
572
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573** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
574 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
575 addition to ASCII.
576
577** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
578
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579** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
580 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
581
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582** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
583 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
584 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
585 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
1f724d55 586
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587** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
588but which can also be used as a modifier).
589
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590** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
591 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
592 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
593 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
594 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
595
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596** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
597 See thread
598 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
599 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
600
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601** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
602 See thread
603 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
604
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605** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
606 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
607 the window associated with that modeline.
608 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
609
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610* Internal changes
611
41a023e3 612** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
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613 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
614
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615** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
616 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
617 one to use when terminating the selection.
618
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619** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
620 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
621 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
622
623** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
624 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
625 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
626
627** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
628 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
629 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
630 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
631 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
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ba1c68de 633** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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634 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
635 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
636 this.]
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638** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
639
640** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
641 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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642 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
643 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
644 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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646** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
647 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
648 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
649 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
650 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
651 data munging.
652
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654 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
655 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
656 class to the standard "link" face.
657
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658* Other known bugs:
659
c3bb6fdb 660** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
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661** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
662From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
663
664(define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
665(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
666
667(defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
668
669C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
670
671toto is a Lisp function.
672(toto)
673
674key binding
675- --- -------
676
677C-g abort-recursive-edit
678TAB minibuffer-complete
679C-j exit-minibuffer
680RET exit-minibuffer
681ESC Prefix Command
682SPC minibuffer-complete-word
683? minibuffer-completion-help
684C-= foo
685C-= foo
686...
687
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688** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
689not be noticed if it appears within a word.
690
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691** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
692 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
693
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694\f
695This file is part of GNU Emacs.
696
697GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
698it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
fca4a5de 699the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
5b87ad55 700any later version.
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702GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
703but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
704MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
705GNU General Public License for more details.
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707You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
708along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
709Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
710Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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