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

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   2                         Feature work remaining
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   4   2.0  annotations
   5        chatting
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   7   2.x  display/database tie-in
   8        analysis/highlight tools
   9        bughouse/crazyhouse
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  13                                Hotlist
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  15 - Move chess-assert-can-move into chess-display-move
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  17 - Allow an "index N" command to the network protocol, so two people
  18   can review a game together
  19
  20 - Make ( create variations in a display, and { begin an annotation
  21
  22 - Make chess-display-create use require, not chess.el
  23
  24 - Polish chess-input.el
  25
  26 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  27   only scanned once.
  28
  29 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
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  31 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  32
  33 - Add support for ICS observing
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  35 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  36
  37 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  38
  39 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  40
  41 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  42   a game object
  43
  44 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  45
  46 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  47
  48 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
  49
  50 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  51   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
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  53 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  54   results too much
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  56 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  57   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  58   of the same color, etc).
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  62                               To-do List
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  64 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  66 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
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  68 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  69
  70 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  71   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  72
  73 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  74
  75 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  76   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  77
  78 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  79   it's not our turn to move
  80
  81 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  82   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  83   after every move; use BBDB if available
  84
  85 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  86   reference that game again
  87
  88 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  89   game into an unplayable state right now
  90
  91 - Break my dependency on cl
  92
  93 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  94
  95 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  96   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  97
  98 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
  99   making space/return perform the move
 100
 101 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 102   chess games back and forth.
 103
 104 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 105   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 106   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 107   handle cursor-type with that display.
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 109 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 110   tells the engine not to resign.
 111
 112 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 116                           Training features
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 118 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
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 120 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 121   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 122   might lead to an inferior position.
 123
 124 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 128                           Analysis features
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 130 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 131   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 132   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 133   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 134   kibitzing feature).
 135
 136 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 137   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 138   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 139   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 140   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 141   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 142   routine.
 143
 144 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 145
 146 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 147   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 148   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 149   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 153                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
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 155   port the code to XEmacs
 156   profile
 157   mem profile
 158   docstring
 159   texi
 160   elint
 161   checkdoc