* bindings.el: Give mode-line-format, mode-line-modes, and

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@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-                                                                -*-outline-*-
+Emacs TODO List                                                   -*-outline-*-
+
+Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
+Free software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for copying permissions.

 
 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
 
 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be


@@ -9,30 +13,108 @@ to the FSF.
 
 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
 
 
 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
 

-** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** whitespace-cleanup should work only on the region if the region is active.
+
+** 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.
+
+** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
+
+** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
+   as well as overlapping matches.
+
+** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text.  At the moment,

   invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
   invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of

-  the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
-  ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
+  the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
+  It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a

   text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
 
   text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
 

+** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
+  It should not generate :require.  Or :require in defcustom
+  should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
+
+** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
+  variables whose values are currently hidden.
+
+** Clean up the variables in browse-url.  Perhaps use a shell command string to
+  specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
+  See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
+  <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
+
+** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
+
+** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
+
+** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
+  using a heuristic of some kind?
+
+** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
+  See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
+
+** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
+   make-frame does not mean the same thing.  The former includes menu and
+   tool bar lines, the latter don't.  frame-parameter should return height
+   without menu and tool bar lines.
+
+** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
+   and they should create Custom buffers.
+
+** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
+
+** Modify allout.el to use overlays, like outline.el.
+
+** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
+
+** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
+  with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
+  recording which file the latest definition came from.
+

 * Important features:
 
 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
 * Important features:
 
 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,

-  display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at multilingual
-  font selection for Emacs 22.]
+   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at
+  multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
+
+** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
+
+** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.

 
 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.  [Is there actually a
   decent single definition of RTF?  Maybe see info at
 
 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.  [Is there actually a
   decent single definition of RTF?  Maybe see info at

-  http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]
+  http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]  This task seems to be addressed
+  by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
+  very early stages.

 
 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
   probably needs some primitive support.
 
 
 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
   probably needs some primitive support.
 

+** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
+  and/or add a variable to the list.
+

 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
   properly with variable-pitch faces.
 
 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
   properly with variable-pitch faces.
 
 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows

-  C-v to scroll through a tall image.
+  C-v to scroll through a tall image.  The primitive operations
+  posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
+
+** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
+  (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).

 
 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
 
 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.


@@ -41,30 +123,74 @@ to the FSF.
    same value of this property.
 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
 
    same value of this property.
 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
 

-** Make movemail work with IMAP.
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+
+** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
+
+** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
+  so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
+  This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.

 
 

-** Internationalize Emacs's messages.  [Note that this is of limited
-  use until the menus can display multilingual text.  It also doesn't
-  address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially
-  as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.  -- fx]
+** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
+  as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.

 
 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.  [This
   probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
   in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
 
 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.  [This
   probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
   in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the

-  pixels.  Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific
-  locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary
-  text, which it often can't as far as I can tell.  -- fx] [The gtk
+  pixels.  The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
+  enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk

   port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
   Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
   port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
   Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]

+  Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
+  enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.

 
 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
   be only full columns/lines.
 
 * Other features we would like:
 
 
 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
   be only full columns/lines.
 
 * Other features we would like:
 

+** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
+rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
+** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
+typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
+
+** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
+
+** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
+  for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
+
+** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
+  and put some other errors under it.
+
+** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
+  See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
+
+** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
+
+** A function to check for customizable options that have been
+  set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
+  This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
+  to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
+  in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
+
+** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
+  and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
+  as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
+  changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
+  default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
+  customization buffers.
+
+** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
+  function that has advice.  The overlay could have `after-text' like
+  " [Function has advice]".  It might look like (defun foo [Function
+  has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
+  use to view the advice.
+

 ** ange-ftp
 *** understand sftp
 ** ange-ftp
 *** understand sftp

-*** ignore some irrelevant errors (like IPv6 and kerberos thingies).
+   This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
+   messages.
+

 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
 
 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
 
 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.


@@ -82,6 +208,8 @@ to the FSF.
        at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
 
        at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
 

+** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
+

 ** 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.
 ** 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.


@@ -94,7 +222,13 @@ to the FSF.
 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
   different parts of a buffer.  This could be useful in editing
   Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
   different parts of a buffer.  This could be useful in editing
   Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text

-  where one language is embedded in another language.
+  where one language is embedded in another language.  See
+  http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
+  mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
+
+** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
+  immediately, then replace it later.  So that C-s a with
+  input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.

 
 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
   output to a different filter.
 
 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
   output to a different filter.


@@ -109,17 +243,17 @@ to the FSF.
   which gives the same information through a menu structure.  [Dave
   Love started on this.]
 
   which gives the same information through a menu structure.  [Dave
   Love started on this.]
 

+** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
+

 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
   GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.
   See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
   GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.
   See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG

-  use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
+  use with mail, which is probably a good start.]  See also
+  http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.

 
 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
   when needed for undoing.  This could extend undo capacity.
 
 
 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
   when needed for undoing.  This could extend undo capacity.
 

-** Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
-  They split off a few years ago through negligence.
-

 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
   so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
   regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
   so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
   regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except


@@ -145,18 +279,24 @@ to the FSF.
 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
   macros in cl-macs.
 
 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
   macros in cl-macs.
 

+** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
+ smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
+ compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
+

 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).  Already in CUA,
   but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
 
 ** 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.
+** 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.]
 
 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
 
 ** 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.]
 
 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char

-  mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
-  They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
+  mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
+  various systems.  They make it difficult to spot the important
+  warnings.

 
 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
 
 
 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
 


@@ -172,23 +312,19 @@ to the FSF.
   ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
   environment.  What should not be ignored needs consideration.
 
   ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
   environment.  What should not be ignored needs consideration.
 

-** 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.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
   this.]
 
 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
 
 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental).  (We may be able to use
   the Boehm collector.)  [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
   this.]
 
 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
 

+** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
+

 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
 
 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
   size and its position from lines instead of characters.
 
 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
 
 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
   size and its position from lines instead of characters.
 

-** Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
-

 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
   Emacs.
 
 ** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
   Emacs.
 


@@ -220,16 +356,27 @@ to the FSF.
 
 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
 
 
 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
 

+** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
+when the body only calls primitives.
+

 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
 
 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
   colors of the applicable faces.
 
 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
 
 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
   colors of the applicable faces.
 

+** Face remapping.
+
+** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
+
+** 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
 ** 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.
+  to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.  Note
+  that Boehm garbage collector provides this.

 
 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
   options come first in the Customize buffers.  This could be done by
 
 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
   options come first in the Customize buffers.  This could be done by


@@ -267,8 +414,6 @@ to the FSF.
   list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
   other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
 
   list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
   other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
 

-** Fix skip-chars-{for,back}ward to allow character classes.
-

 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
   i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
 
 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
   i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
 


@@ -289,6 +434,16 @@ to the FSF.
   are also put in utf-8 lang. env.  In such a case, it is
   better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
 
   are also put in utf-8 lang. env.  In such a case, it is
   better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
 

+** Enhance locale handling:  handle language, territory and charset
+  orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments.  Use the locale
+  to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
+  dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
+  characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
+  sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
+  directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
+  common menu items when the toolkit supports it ...  `locale-info'
+  needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c.  [fx started on this.]
+

 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
   Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
   addition to ASCII.
 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
   Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
   addition to ASCII.


@@ -309,18 +464,68 @@ to the FSF.
   "japanese".  Currently, most Japanese users are using external
   packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
 
   "japanese".  Currently, most Japanese users are using external
   packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
 

+** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
+but which can also be used as a modifier).
+
+** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
+   for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
+
+** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
+   Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
+   Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
+   e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
+   for this for inclusion after 22.1].
+
+** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
+   See thread
+   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
+   [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
+

 * Internal changes
 
 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
   GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
 * Internal changes
 
 ** 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
+  that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done

   this.]
 
 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
 
 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
    offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
   this.]
 
 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
 
 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
    offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior

-   comint-derived mode.  I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el generic.
-   For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, ...
+   comint-derived mode.  I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
+   For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
+   haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
+
+** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
+   All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
+   C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop.  Once we
+   switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
+   allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
+   data munging.
+
+** Add "link" button class
+   Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
+   button classes inherit from it.  Set the default face of the "link" button
+   class to the standard "link" face.
+
+* Other known bugs:
+
+** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
+not be noticed if it appears within a word.
+
+** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
+   sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
+
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