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a9c1a157 RS |
3 | Small but important fixes in existing features: |
4 | ||
2cce20c0 RS |
5 | * Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem |
6 | for the use of the preferred coding systems. | |
7 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
8 | * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci |
9 | on text properties in the error message lines. | |
10 | ||
11 | Important features: | |
12 | ||
5e101746 RS |
13 | * Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, |
14 | display a font as a sample, etc. | |
15 | ||
00a18b59 DL |
16 | * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a |
17 | decent single definition of RTF?] | |
6165b6e3 | 18 | |
a9c1a157 RS |
19 | * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
20 | probably needs some primitive support. | |
21 | ||
22 | * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
23 | properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
24 | ||
25 | * Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility. | |
26 | ||
6165b6e3 EZ |
27 | * Implement other text formatting properties. |
28 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
29 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
30 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
31 | same value of this property. | |
32 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
33 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
34 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. |
35 | ||
6147334f RS |
36 | * Internationalize Emacs's messages. |
37 | ||
a9c1a157 RS |
38 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.) |
39 | ||
40 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
41 | ||
42 | * Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can | |
43 | be only full columns/lines. | |
44 | ||
45 | Other features we would like: | |
46 | ||
47 | * Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns | |
48 | of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command. | |
49 | It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes. | |
6165b6e3 | 50 | |
a933dad1 DL |
51 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
52 | different parts of a buffer. | |
53 | ||
54 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
55 | output to a different filter. | |
56 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
57 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some |
58 | useful sense). | |
59 | ||
a933dad1 | 60 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file |
e39fc314 DL |
61 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
62 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 63 | |
e39fc314 DL |
64 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
65 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
66 | |
67 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
68 | for undoing. | |
69 | ||
7665519d RS |
70 | * Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c. |
71 | They split off a few years ago through negligance. | |
72 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
73 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
74 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
75 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
76 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
77 | ||
78 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
79 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
80 | thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
81 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
d054101f | 82 | |
e39fc314 DL |
83 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs |
84 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
85 | assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
86 | missed. | |
87 | ||
88 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
89 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
90 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
91 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 DL |
92 | |
93 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
94 | an example how to do part of this. | |
95 | ||
96 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
97 | macros in cl-macs. | |
98 | ||
99 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
100 | ||
101 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
102 | ||
e39fc314 DL |
103 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. |
104 | ||
105 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
106 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
107 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
108 | ||
109 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
110 | |
111 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
112 | automatically. | |
113 | ||
114 | * Update the FAQ. | |
115 | ||
b04f7626 DL |
116 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. |
117 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
118 | |
119 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
120 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
121 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
122 | ||
cf56d05f DL |
123 | * Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up |
124 | more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar | |
6147334f | 125 | holidays, quoting characters?,... |
34f70eda DL |
126 | |
127 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
128 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb | 129 | |
4dd4cc14 | 130 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |
e2849090 DL |
131 | |
132 | * Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X. | |
52d8e4ff GM |
133 | Using libdnd might be a good start. |
134 | ||
03ff8aab | 135 | * Add horizontal scroll bars. |
00a18b59 | 136 | |
e4ded23c GM |
137 | * Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's |
138 | size and its position from lines instead of characters. | |
c0460c17 | 139 | |
3a84ed60 RS |
140 | * Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful |
141 | things. [The integration is partly done.] | |
142 | ||
c0460c17 | 143 | * Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient. |
b09646e3 | 144 | |
8d57a345 | 145 | * Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental |
5dcdd840 DL |
146 | compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL |
147 | programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though. | |
b14b5f08 EZ |
148 | |
149 | * Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT". | |
8bd6307f GM |
150 | |
151 | * If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in | |
152 | another buffer but not written yet, print a warning. | |
153 | ||
296808a5 GM |
154 | * Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to |
155 | Emacs. | |
6add099c GM |
156 | |
157 | * Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display. | |
e641b454 GM |
158 | |
159 | * Rewrite make-docfile to something sane. | |
5e101746 RS |
160 | |
161 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
162 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
163 | ||
164 | * Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or | |
165 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). | |
166 | This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not | |
167 | aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting. | |
168 | ||
169 | Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, | |
170 | artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, | |
171 | completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, | |
172 | easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], | |
173 | generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit | |
174 | [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node], | |
175 | mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, | |
176 | snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from | |
177 | the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break, | |
178 | vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, | |
179 | swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, | |
180 | refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline, | |
181 | cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml, | |
182 | cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes, | |
183 | probably in separate manual. |