Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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+* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
+suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
+
+** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t.
+
+** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
+
+** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
+not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode,
+change-log-mode, texinfo-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
+
+** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
+
+** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
+It can use the same icons as gud.
+
+** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
+to use it.
+
+** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
+of appropriate :type and :group.
+
* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
-** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
-I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
+** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
+levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
+understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
+command it will use.
-** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
+I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
+mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
+for users to customize.
-** Avoid using "iff" in doc strings.
+** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
+Use emacsclient later to open frames.
-** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
-the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
-a window doesn't select it.
+** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
+variables section.
+
+** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
+I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
-** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
-but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
-current buffer.
+** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
-** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
- the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
-
** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
+ For related problems consult the thread starting with
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
+** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
+on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
+under the keys
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
+and
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
+where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
+
+** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
+Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
+
+** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
+
+** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files,
+like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
+
* Important features:
+** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
+
+** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
+had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
+beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
+advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
+
+Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
+because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
+Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
+never really made it work for this.
+
+Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
+
+** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
+using code like that of customize-groups.
+
+** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
+errors.
+
+** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
+indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
+Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
+of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
+scroll bars are extensible.
+
** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
* Other features we would like:
+** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
+ of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
+ properly.
+
+** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
+from the emacsclient process.
** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
- significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
- packages which might go in and have been missed.
+ significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
+ Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
+ have been missed.
+
+** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
+Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
+python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
-** Support simultaneous tty and X frames. [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs
- at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.]
-
** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
this and can say where some of the problems are.]
** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
+ [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
- Emacs.
-
** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
- converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
+ converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
+ doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
(with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
- already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
+ already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
or the end of the buffer.
-** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
- XRender/Freetype.
-
** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
-** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
- As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
- in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
- fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
- via Xft library).
-
** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
See thread
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
+** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
+ The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
+ the window associated with that modeline.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
+
* Internal changes
** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
-
+
** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
* Other known bugs:
+** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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