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e39fc314 | 1 | -*-text-*- |
19cc91fb GM |
2 | |
3 | * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector | |
4 | to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. | |
5 | ||
6165b6e3 EZ |
6 | * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. |
7 | ||
8 | * Implement other text formatting properties. | |
9 | ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page. | |
10 | ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this". | |
11 | Don't break the line between two characters that have the | |
12 | same value of this property. | |
13 | ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line. | |
14 | ||
e39fc314 DL |
15 | * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This |
16 | probably needs some primitive support. | |
6165b6e3 | 17 | |
a933dad1 DL |
18 | * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for |
19 | different parts of a buffer. | |
20 | ||
21 | * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error | |
22 | output to a different filter. | |
23 | ||
24 | * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci | |
25 | on text properties in the error message lines. | |
26 | ||
27 | * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some | |
28 | useful sense). | |
29 | ||
30 | * Make movemail work with IMAP. | |
31 | ||
32 | * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files, | |
33 | so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes. | |
34 | ||
35 | * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file | |
e39fc314 DL |
36 | which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave |
37 | Love started on this.] | |
a933dad1 | 38 | |
e39fc314 DL |
39 | * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with |
40 | GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.] | |
a933dad1 DL |
41 | |
42 | * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed | |
43 | for undoing. | |
44 | ||
a933dad1 DL |
45 | * Change the Windows NT menu code |
46 | so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids | |
47 | regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except | |
48 | when the user tries to use the menubar. | |
49 | ||
50 | This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to | |
51 | the main thread, and not return from that message until the main | |
52 | thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated | |
53 | the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. | |
d054101f GM |
54 | |
55 | * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean. | |
6344985d | 56 | |
e39fc314 | 57 | * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule. |
da1608d9 | 58 | |
e39fc314 DL |
59 | * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or |
60 | ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's | |
34f70eda | 61 | a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist, |
e39fc314 DL |
62 | ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion, |
63 | delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu, | |
64 | expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various | |
65 | modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight | |
66 | [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, | |
67 | mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be | |
68 | interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt | |
69 | [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode | |
70 | [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce, | |
71 | bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, | |
72 | spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], | |
5dd31b13 SM |
73 | pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); |
74 | other progmodes, probably in separate manual. | |
e39fc314 DL |
75 | |
76 | * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs | |
77 | significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the | |
78 | assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been | |
79 | missed. | |
80 | ||
81 | * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of | |
5dd31b13 SM |
82 | keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? |
83 | multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ? | |
84 | what else ? | |
e39fc314 DL |
85 | |
86 | * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as | |
87 | an example how to do part of this. | |
88 | ||
89 | * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler | |
90 | macros in cl-macs. | |
91 | ||
92 | * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). | |
93 | ||
94 | * Support simultaneous tty and X frames. | |
95 | ||
96 | * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling | |
97 | properly with variable-pitch faces. | |
98 | ||
99 | * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. | |
100 | ||
101 | * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char | |
102 | mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems. | |
103 | They make it difficult to spot the important warnings. | |
104 | ||
105 | * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC. | |
eaf67bae DL |
106 | |
107 | * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies | |
108 | automatically. | |
109 | ||
110 | * Update the FAQ. | |
111 | ||
112 | * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and | |
113 | support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.] | |
b04f7626 DL |
114 | |
115 | * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available. | |
116 | [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.] | |
1265b539 DL |
117 | |
118 | * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus | |
119 | ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the | |
120 | environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. | |
121 | ||
122 | * Investigate using the language environment to set up more things, | |
123 | such as the default Ispell dictionary. | |
34f70eda DL |
124 | |
125 | * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use | |
126 | the Boehm collector.) | |
19cc91fb GM |
127 | |
128 | * Implement variable aliases, i.e. a `defvaralias' analogous to the | |
129 | `defalias' for functions. The implementation should not slow down | |
130 | Emacs, and it shouldn't use additional memory, at least not much. | |
131 | ||
132 | * Port Emacs to GTK+. | |
133 | ||
134 | * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. | |
135 | ||
136 | * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window | |
137 | when the mouse enters it. | |
138 | ||
4dd4cc14 | 139 | * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3. |