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 - Polish chess-input.el
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  17 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  18   only scanned once.
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  20 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  21
  22 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  23
  24 - Add support for ICS observing
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  26 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  27
  28 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  29
  30 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  31
  32 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  33   a game object
  34
  35 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  36
  37 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  38
  39 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
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  41 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  42   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
  43
  44 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  45   results too much
  46
  47 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  48   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  49   of the same color, etc).
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  53                               To-do List
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  55 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  56
  57 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  58
  59 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  60
  61 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  62   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  63
  64 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  65
  66 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  67   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  68
  69 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  70   it's not our turn to move
  71
  72 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  73   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  74   after every move; use BBDB if available
  75
  76 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  77   reference that game again
  78
  79 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  80   game into an unplayable state right now
  81
  82 - Break my dependency on cl
  83
  84 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  85
  86 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  87   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  88
  89 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
  90   making space/return perform the move
  91
  92 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  93   chess games back and forth.
  94
  95 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  96   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  97   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  98   handle cursor-type with that display.
  99
 100 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 101   tells the engine not to resign.
 102
 103 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 107                           Training features
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 109 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
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 111 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 112   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 113   might lead to an inferior position.
 114
 115 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 119                           Analysis features
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 121 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 122   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 123   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 124   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 125   kibitzing feature).
 126
 127 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 128   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 129   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 130   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 131   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 132   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 133   routine.
 134
 135 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 136
 137 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 138   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 139   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 140   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 144                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 145
 146   port the code to XEmacs
 147   profile
 148   mem profile
 149   docstring
 150   texi
 151   elint
 152   checkdoc