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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** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
19
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20** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t.
21
22** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
23
c884b4d7 24** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
bfb906ac 25not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
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479be3f4 27** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
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29** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
30It can use the same icons as gud.
31
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32** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
33to use it.
34
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35** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
36of appropriate :type and :group.
37
ba1c68de 38* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
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40** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
41levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
42understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
43command it will use.
44
45I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
46mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
47for users to customize.
48
600e5c79 49** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
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50Use emacsclient later to open frames.
51
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52** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
53variables section.
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55** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
56I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
57
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58** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
59
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60** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
61 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
62
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63** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
64
125fbe81 65** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
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66 For related problems consult the thread starting with
67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
125fbe81 68
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69** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
70
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71** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
72 as well as overlapping matches.
73
d3a403e5 74** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
b9e6b498 75 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
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76 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
77 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
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78 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
79
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80** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
81 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
82 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
83
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84** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
85 a specified time).
86
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87** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
88 variables whose values are currently hidden.
89
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90** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
91 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
92 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
93 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
94
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95** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
96
97** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
98
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99** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
100 using a heuristic of some kind?
101
102** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
103 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
104
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105** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
106 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
107 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
108 without menu and tool bar lines.
109
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110** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
111 and they should create Custom buffers.
112
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113** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
114
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115** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
116
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117** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
118
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119** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
120 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
121 recording which file the latest definition came from.
046ece71 122
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123** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
124
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125** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
126http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
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128** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
129http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
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131** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
132on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
133under the keys
134HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
135and
136HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
137where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
138
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139** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
140Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
141
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142** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
143
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144** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files,
145like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
146
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147** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for
148dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
149
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150** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
151http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
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ba1c68de 153* Important features:
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155** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
156
157** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
158had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
159beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
160advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
161
162Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
163because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
164Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
165never really made it work for this.
166
167Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
168
169** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
170using code like that of customize-groups.
171
172** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
173errors.
174
175** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
176indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
177Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
178of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
179scroll bars are extensible.
180
ba1c68de 181** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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182 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
183 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
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185** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
186
09d04fb3 187** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
5e101746 188
ba1c68de 189** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
c51b37fd 190 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
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191 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
192 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
193 very early stages.
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ba1c68de 195** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
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196 probably needs some primitive support.
197
ba6be78d 198** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
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199 and/or add a variable to the list.
200
ba1c68de 201** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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202 properly with variable-pitch faces.
203
ba1c68de 204** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
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205 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
206 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
a9c1a157 207
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208** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
209 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
210
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211** Implement other text formatting properties.
212*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
213*** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
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214 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
215 same value of this property.
ba1c68de 216*** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
6165b6e3 217
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218** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
219
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220** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
221specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
222
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223** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
224
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225** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
226 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
227 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
228
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229** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
230 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
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ba1c68de 232** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
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233 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
234 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
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235 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
236 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
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237 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
238 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
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239 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
240 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
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ba1c68de 242** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
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243 be only full columns/lines.
244
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245* Other features we would like:
246
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247** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
248 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
249 properly.
250
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251** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
252from the emacsclient process.
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253** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
254rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
0de301ed 255
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256** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
257typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
258
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259** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
260
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261** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
262 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
263
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264** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
265 and put some other errors under it.
266
1a500a73 267** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
1b2105d9 268 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
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270** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
271
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272** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
273
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274** A function to check for customizable options that have been
275 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
276 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
277 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
278 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
279
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280** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
281 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
282 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
283 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
284 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
285 customization buffers.
286
e0402468 287** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
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288 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
289 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
290 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
291 use to view the advice.
e0402468 292
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293** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
294
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295** ange-ftp
296*** understand sftp
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297 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
298 messages.
299
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300*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
301
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302** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
303 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
304 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
305 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
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307** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
308*** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
309*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
310*** support for infix operators (with precedence).
311*** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
312*** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
313 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
314 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
315*** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
316
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317** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
318
ba1c68de 319** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
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320 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
321 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
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ba1c68de 323** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
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324 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
325 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
326 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
327
a7abe867 328** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
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329 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
330 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
331 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
332 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
a7abe867 333 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
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335 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
336 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
337 modifiers.
338
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339 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
340 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
341 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
342 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
343 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
344 downgrade to versions that require activation.
345
ba1c68de 346** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
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347 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
348 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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349 where one language is embedded in another language. See
350 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
8b5e9361 351 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken by others.
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353** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
354 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
355 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
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ba1c68de 357** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
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358 output to a different filter.
359
ba1c68de 360** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
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361 useful sense).
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ba1c68de 363** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
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364 desktops.
365
ba1c68de 366** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
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367 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
368 Love started on this.]
a933dad1 369
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370** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
371
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372** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
373 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
a933dad1 374
ba1c68de 375** Change the Windows NT menu code
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376 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
377 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
378 when the user tries to use the menubar.
379
380 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
381 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
0245b3ef 382 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
a933dad1 383 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
d054101f 384
ba1c68de 385** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
93a759ba 386 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
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387 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
388 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
389 have been missed.
390
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391** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
392Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
393python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
394http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
395http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
396http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
397http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
398
ba1c68de 399** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
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400 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
401 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
402 what else ?
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ba1c68de 404** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
2fa4f835 405 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
e39fc314 406
ba1c68de 407** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
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408 macros in cl-macs.
409
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410** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
411 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
412 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
413
ba1c68de 414** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
a52ce7f8 415 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
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ba1c68de 417** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
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418 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
419 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
e39fc314 420
ba1c68de 421** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
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422 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
423 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
424 warnings.
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ba1c68de 426** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
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ba1c68de 428** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
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429 automatically.
430
ba1c68de 431** Update the FAQ.
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ba1c68de 433** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
b04f7626 434 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
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ba1c68de 436** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
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437 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
438 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
590394eb 439 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
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ba1c68de 441** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
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442 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
443 this.]
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ba1c68de 445** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
e2849090 446
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447** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
448
ba1c68de 449** Add horizontal scroll bars.
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ba1c68de 451** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
e4ded23c 452 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
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ba1c68de 454** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
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455 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
456 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
d1c3f6b6 457
ba1c68de 458** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
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459 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
460 thought this was feasible.]
461
ba1c68de 462** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
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463 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
464 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
465
ba1c68de 466** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
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467 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
468 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
469 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
470 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
471 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
8589dc17 472 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
d1c3f6b6 473
ba1c68de 474** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
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475 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
476 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
477
ba1c68de 478** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
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479 encodings.
480
ba1c68de 481** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
d1c3f6b6 482
48b194fd 483** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
8b5e9361 484 when the body only calls primitives.
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ba1c68de 486** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
e641b454 487
ba1c68de 488** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
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489 colors of the applicable faces.
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 color versions work generally. (Requires care
529 with the color used for the transparent regions.)
bf6394a6 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'.
bf6394a6 535
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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547** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
548 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
549
550** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
551 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
552 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
553 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
554 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
1f724d55 555
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556** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
557 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
558 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
559 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
560 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
561 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
562 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
563 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
564 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
565
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566** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
567 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
568 addition to ASCII.
569
570** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
571
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572** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
573 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
574
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575** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
576 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
577 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
578 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
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a53e64cc 580** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
8b5e9361 581 but which can also be used as a modifier).
a53e64cc 582
d59e3c42 583** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
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584 Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of
585 lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face.
d59e3c42 586
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587** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
588 See thread
589 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
590 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
591
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592** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
593 See thread
594 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
595
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596** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
597 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
598 the window associated with that modeline.
599 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
600
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601* Internal changes
602
41a023e3 603** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
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604 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
605
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606** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
607 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
608 one to use when terminating the selection.
609
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610** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
611 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
612 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
613
614** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
615 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
616 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
617
618** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
619 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
620 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
621 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
622 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
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ba1c68de 624** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
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625 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
626 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
627 this.]
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629** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
630
631** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
632 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
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633 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
634 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
635 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
ba1c68de 636
8b5e9361 637** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11]
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638 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
639 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
640 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
641 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
642 data munging.
643
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644** Add "link" button class
645 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
646 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
647 class to the standard "link" face.
648
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650
c3bb6fdb 651** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
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653** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
654not be noticed if it appears within a word.
655
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656** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
657 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
658
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659\f
660This file is part of GNU Emacs.
661
ab73e885 662GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5b87ad55 663it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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664the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
665(at your option) any later version.
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667GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
668but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
669MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
670GNU General Public License for more details.
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5b87ad55 672You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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