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.
+** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
** 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.
+not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
of appropriate :type and :group.
+** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings.
+
+** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms.
+This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to
+expecting such variables to always be defined, eg when they modify
+things in their .emacs.
+
+** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print).
+
* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
for users to customize.
-** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
-Use emacsclient later to open frames.
-
-** 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.
-
** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
-** 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.
** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files,
like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
+** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for
+dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
+
+** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
+
* Important features:
** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
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.
-
-** 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.
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).
+ (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf).
** Implement other text formatting properties.
*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
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.
+ mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken 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
** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
desktops.
-** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
- 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
- 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.
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, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
+ significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ 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.
** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
-when the body only calls primitives.
+ 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.
-** Face remapping.
-
** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
probably in separate manual.
** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
- the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
- with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
+ the XPMs so that the color versions work generally. (Requires care
+ with the color used for the transparent regions.)
** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
and from the calls.
-** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
- The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
- stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
- overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
- 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
- such sizes.
-
** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
only the variable `current-language-environment'.
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).
+ but which can also be used as a modifier).
** 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].
+ Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of
+ lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face.
** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
See thread
For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
-** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
+** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11]
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
* 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>
-
-(define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
-(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
-
-(defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
-
-C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
-
-toto is a Lisp function.
-(toto)
-
-key binding
-- --- -------
-
-C-g abort-recursive-edit
-TAB minibuffer-complete
-C-j exit-minibuffer
-RET exit-minibuffer
-ESC Prefix Command
-SPC minibuffer-complete-word
-? minibuffer-completion-help
-C-= foo
-C-= foo
-...
** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
not be noticed if it appears within a word.
\f
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