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
aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
-it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted packages, please be
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to the FSF.
Small but important fixes needed 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.
+ display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual
+ font selection for Emacs 22.]
* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
decent single definition of RTF?]
* Make movemail work with IMAP.
-* Internationalize Emacs's messages.
-
-* Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
+* 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]
-* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
+* 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
+ port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
+ Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
be only full columns/lines.
Love started on this.]
* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
- GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
+ 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.]
* 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.
+ 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
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
- significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS. Check the assignments file for other
+ significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
packages which might go in and have been missed.
* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
-* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
+* 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.
holidays, quoting characters?,...
* Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
- the Boehm collector.)
+ 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.
* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-* Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful
- things. [The integration is partly done.]
-
-* Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient.
+* Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
* Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".
-* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
+* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
Emacs.
* Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
* Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
* 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.
+ GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
+ that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
+ this.]
* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
+* Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
+ colors of the applicable faces.
+
* Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
XRender/Freetype.
cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
probably in separate manual.
+
+* Provide a means to extract image-relative coordinates from mouse
+ clicks on images. (Needed for W3, at least.) Also useful for W3
+ and Gnus: allow images to scroll properly.
+
+* 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.)
+
+* 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
+ 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.
+
+;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036
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