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* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.

* Implement other text formatting properties.
** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
   Don't break the line between two characters that have the
   same value of this property.
** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.

* Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
  probably needs some primitive support.

* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
  different parts of a buffer.

* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
  output to a different filter.

* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
  on text properties in the error message lines.

* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
  useful sense).

* Make movemail work with IMAP.

* Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
  so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.

* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
  which gives the same information through a menu structure.  [Dave
  Love started on this.]

* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
  GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.]

* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
  for undoing.

* Change the Windows NT menu code
  so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
  regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
  when the user tries to use the menubar.

  This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
  the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
  thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
  the whole menu bar.  In the mean time, it should process other messages.

* Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.

* Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.

* Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
  ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).  Here's
  a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
  ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
  delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu,
  expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various
  modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight
  [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag,
  mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be
  interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt
  [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode
  [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce,
  bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode,
  spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?],
  pcomplete, assoc; other progmodes, probably in separate manual.

* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
  significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?).  Check the
  assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
  missed.

* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
  keymap.c).

* Provide real menus on ttys.  The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
  an example how to do part of this.

* Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
  macros in cl-macs.

* Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).

* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.

* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
  properly with variable-pitch faces.

* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.

* Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
  mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
  They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.

* Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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e39fc314	1	--text--
6165b6e3 EZ	2	* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.
	3
	4	* Implement other text formatting properties.
	5	** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
	6	** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
	7	Don't break the line between two characters that have the
	8	same value of this property.
	9	** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
	10
e39fc314 DL	11	* Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
e39fc314 DL	12	probably needs some primitive support.
6165b6e3	13
a933dad1 DL	14	* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
	15	different parts of a buffer.
	16
	17	* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
	18	output to a different filter.
	19
	20	* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
	21	on text properties in the error message lines.
	22
	23	* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
	24	useful sense).
	25
	26	* Make movemail work with IMAP.
	27
	28	* Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
	29	so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.
	30
	31	* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
e39fc314 DL	32	which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
e39fc314 DL	33	Love started on this.]
a933dad1	34
e39fc314 DL	35	* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
e39fc314 DL	36	GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
a933dad1 DL	37
	38	* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
	39	for undoing.
	40
a933dad1 DL	41	* Change the Windows NT menu code
	42	so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
	43	regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
	44	when the user tries to use the menubar.
	45
	46	This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
	47	the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
	48	thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
	49	the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
d054101f GM	50
d054101f GM	51	* Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.
6344985d	52
e39fc314	53	* Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.
da1608d9	54
e39fc314 DL	55	* Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
	56	ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's
	57	a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
	58	ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
	59	delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu,
	60	expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various
	61	modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight
	62	[other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag,
	63	mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be
	64	interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt
	65	[interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode
	66	[?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce,
	67	bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode,
	68	spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?],
	69	pcomplete, assoc; other progmodes, probably in separate manual.
	70
	71	* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
	72	significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the
	73	assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
	74	missed.
	75
	76	* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
	77	keymap.c).
	78
	79	* Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
	80	an example how to do part of this.
	81
	82	* Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
	83	macros in cl-macs.
	84
	85	* Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
	86
	87	* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
	88
	89	* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
	90	properly with variable-pitch faces.
	91
	92	* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
	93
	94	* Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
	95	mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
	96	They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
	97
	98	* Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.