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 - Make a command binding (for reading NG articles and such) which will
  16   assume there is a PGN game under point and will read it as such and
  17   jump to the move before cursor; right now, C-c C-c in chess-pgn
  18   requires that the buffer be in pgn-mode
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  20 - Move chess-assert-can-move into chess-display-move
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  22 - Allow an "index N" command to the network protocol, so two people
  23   can review a game together
  24
  25 - Make ( create variations in a display, and { begin an annotation.  "
  26   or ; will begin a chat string.
  27
  28 - Have C-p and C-n move forward and backward plies, and C-f and C-b
  29   move into and out of variations
  30
  31 - Make chess-display-create use require, not chess.el
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  33 - PGN files aren't sendable via IRC yet; I will have to convert ^J
  34   into ^K or something.
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  36 - Polish chess-input.el
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  38 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  39   only scanned once.
  40
  41 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  42
  43 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  44
  45 - Add support for ICS observing
  46
  47 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  48
  49 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  50
  51 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  52
  53 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  54   a game object
  55
  56 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  57
  58 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  59
  60 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
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  62 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  63   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
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  65 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  66   results too much
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  68 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  69   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  70   of the same color, etc).
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  74                               To-do List
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  76 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  77
  78 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  79
  80 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  81
  82 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  83   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  84
  85 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  86
  87 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  88   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  89
  90 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  91   it's not our turn to move
  92
  93 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  94   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  95   after every move; use BBDB if available
  96
  97 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  98   reference that game again
  99
 100 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
 101   game into an unplayable state right now
 102
 103 - Break my dependency on cl
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 105 - Use more asserts throughout the code
 106
 107 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
 108   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
 109
 110 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
 111   making space/return perform the move
 112
 113 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 114   chess games back and forth.
 115
 116 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 117   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 118   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 119   handle cursor-type with that display.
 120
 121 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 122   tells the engine not to resign.
 123
 124 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 128                           Training features
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 130 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 131
 132 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 133   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 134   might lead to an inferior position.
 135
 136 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 140                           Analysis features
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 142 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 143   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 144   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 145   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 146   kibitzing feature).
 147
 148 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 149   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 150   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 151   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 152   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 153   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 154   routine.
 155
 156 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 157
 158 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 159   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 160   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 161   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 165                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 166
 167   port the code to XEmacs
 168   profile
 169   mem profile
 170   docstring
 171   texi
 172   elint
 173   checkdoc