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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: | |
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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 | |
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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 | ||
32 | * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility. | |
33 | ||
6165b6e3 EZ |
34 | * Implement other text formatting properties. |
35 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
36 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
37 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
38 | same value of this property. | |
39 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
40 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
41 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. |
42 | ||
6147334f RS |
43 | * Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
44 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
45 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
46 | ||
47 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
48 | ||
49 | * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
50 | be only full columns/lines. | |
51 | ||
52 | Other features we would like: | |
53 | ||
54 | * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns | |
55 | of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. | |
56 | It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. | |
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58 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
59 | different parts of a buffer. | |
60 | ||
61 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
62 | output to a different filter. | |
63 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
64 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
65 | useful sense). | |
66 | ||
8ba148c7 RS |
67 | * Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named |
68 | desktops. | |
69 | ||
a933dad1 | 70 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
e39fc314 DL |
71 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
72 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 73 | |
e39fc314 DL |
74 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
75 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
76 | |
77 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
78 | for undoing. | |
79 | ||
7665519d RS |
80 | * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. |
81 | They split off a few years ago through negligance. | |
82 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
83 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
84 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
85 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
86 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
87 | ||
88 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
89 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
90 | thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
91 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
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93 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
94 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
95 | assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
96 | missed. | |
97 | ||
98 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
99 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
100 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
101 | what else ? | |
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102 | |
103 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
104 | an example how to do part of this. | |
105 | ||
106 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
107 | macros in cl-macs. | |
108 | ||
109 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
110 | ||
111 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
112 | ||
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113 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. |
114 | ||
115 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
116 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
117 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
118 | ||
119 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
120 | |
121 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
122 | automatically. | |
123 | ||
124 | * Update the FAQ. | |
125 | ||
b04f7626 DL |
126 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
127 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
128 | |
129 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
130 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
131 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
132 | ||
cf56d05f DL |
133 | * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
134 | more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
6147334f | 135 | holidays, quoting characters?,... |
34f70eda DL |
136 | |
137 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
138 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb | 139 | |
4dd4cc14 | 140 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 DL |
141 | |
142 | * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
52d8e4ff GM |
143 | Using libdnd might be a good start. |
144 | ||
03ff8aab | 145 | * Add horizontal scroll bars. |
00a18b59 | 146 | |
e4ded23c GM |
147 | * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
148 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
c0460c17 | 149 | |
3a84ed60 RS |
150 | * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful |
151 | things. [The integration is partly done.] | |
152 | ||
c0460c17 | 153 | * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
b09646e3 | 154 | |
8d57a345 | 155 | * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
5dcdd840 DL |
156 | compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
157 | programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
b14b5f08 EZ |
158 | |
159 | * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". | |
8bd6307f GM |
160 | |
161 | * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
162 | another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
163 | ||
296808a5 GM |
164 | * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
165 | Emacs. | |
6add099c GM |
166 | |
167 | * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
e641b454 | 168 | |
c5020b5b CW |
169 | * Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using FreeType. |
170 | ||
e641b454 | 171 | * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. |
5e101746 RS |
172 | |
173 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
174 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
175 | ||
176 | * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or | |
177 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). | |
178 | This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not | |
179 | aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. | |
180 | ||
181 | Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, | |
182 | artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, | |
183 | completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, | |
184 | easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], | |
185 | generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit | |
186 | [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], | |
187 | mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, | |
188 | snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from | |
189 | the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, | |
190 | vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, | |
191 | swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, | |
192 | refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, | |
193 | cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, | |
194 | cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, | |
195 | probably in separate manual. |