code.delx.au - gnu-emacs-elpa/blob - TODO

   1 - Feature work remaining:
   2
   3   2.0
   4     annotations
   5     chatting
   6   2.x
   7     display/database tie-in
   8     analysis/highlight tools
   9     bughouse/crazyhouse
  10
  11 - Make the drawing/highlighting code just touch single squares, rather
  12   than redrawing the whole board each time (fast though this is,
  13   touching single squares is all that's necessary, and it would be
  14   even faster)
  15
  16 - Fix highlighting in chess-plain when chess-plain-spacing is set.
  17   chess-coord needs to be applied to a larger area, and also the way
  18   highlight locations are found needs to be recalculated.
  19
  20 - Change all of the highlighting functions to use properties to find
  21   out where the highlighting region should begin.
  22
  23 - Move keyboard shortcutting and mouse selection into their own
  24   modules
  25
  26 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  27
  28 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  29
  30 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  31   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  32
  33 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  34
  35 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  36   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  37
  38 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
  39   it's not our turn to move
  40
  41 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  42   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  43   after every move; use BBDB if available
  44
  45 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  46   reference that game again
  47
  48 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  49   game into an unplayable state right now
  50
  51 - Break my dependency on cl
  52
  53 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  54
  55 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  56   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  57
  58 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry
  59
  60 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  61
  62 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  63   chess games back and forth.
  64
  65 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  66
  67 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  68
  69 - Add support for ICS observing
  70
  71 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  72   playing, etc.
  73
  74 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  75
  76 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  77
  78 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  79   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  80   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  81   handle cursor-type with that display.
  82
  83 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  84
  85 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  86   tells the engine not to resign.
  87
  88 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
  89
  90 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  91
  92 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  93   a game object
  94
  95 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  96
  97 - Port image display code to XEmacs
  98
  99                           Training features
 100
 101 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 102
 103 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 104   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 105   might lead to an inferior position.
 106
 107 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
 108
 109                           Analysis features
 110
 111 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 112   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 113   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 114   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 115   kibitzing feature).
 116
 117 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 118   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 119   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 120   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 121   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 122   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 123   routine.
 124
 125 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 126
 127 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 128   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 129   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 130   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 131
 132                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 133
 134   profile
 135   mem profile
 136   docstring
 137   texi
 138   elint
 139   checkdoc