-*-text-*-
-* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
- to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
+Small but important fixes in existing features:
+
+* Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem
+ for the use of the preferred coding systems.
+
+* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
+ on text properties in the error message lines.
+
+Important features:
+
+* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
+ display a font as a sample, etc.
+
+* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
+ decent single definition of RTF?]
+
+* Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
+ probably needs some primitive support.
+
+* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
+ properly with variable-pitch faces.
-* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.
+* Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility.
* Implement other text formatting properties.
** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
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.
+* Make movemail work with IMAP.
+
+* Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+
+* Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
+
+* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
+
+* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
+ be only full columns/lines.
+
+Other features we would like:
+
+* Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
+ of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
+ It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
* 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.]
* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
for undoing.
+* Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
+ They split off a few years ago through negligance.
+
* Change the Windows NT menu code
so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
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, artist,
- 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, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual);
- 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
* 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
* Update the FAQ.
-* Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and
- support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.]
-
* Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
[It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
-* Investigate using the language environment to set up more things,
- such as the default Ispell dictionary.
+* Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
+ more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
+ holidays, quoting characters?,...
* Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
the Boehm collector.)
-* Implement variable aliases, i.e. a `defvaralias' analogous to the
- `defalias' for functions. The implementation should not slow down
- Emacs, and it shouldn't use additional memory, at least not much.
+* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
-* Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
+* Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
+ Using libdnd might be a good start.
-* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
+* Add horizontal scroll bars.
-* Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window
- when the mouse enters it.
+* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
+ size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
+* Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful
+ things. [The integration is partly done.]
-* Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
- Using libdnd might be a good start.
+* Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient.
-* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
- be only full columns/lines.
+* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
+ compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
+ programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.
+
+* Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".
+
+* If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in
+ another buffer but not written yet, print a warning.
+
+* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
+ Emacs.
+
+* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
+
+* Rewrite make-docfile to something sane.
+
+* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
+ to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
+
+* Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
+ ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
+ This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
+ aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
+
+ Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
+ artist, 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, xml,
+ cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
+ probably in separate manual.
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