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

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