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 - TAB in chess-pgn-mode at move 1 thinks O-O and O-O-O are legal
  16   moves.
  17
  18 - Make a command binding (for reading NG articles and such) which will
  19   assume there is a PGN game under point and will read it as such and
  20   jump to the move before cursor; right now, C-c C-c in chess-pgn
  21   requires that the buffer be in pgn-mode
  22
  23 - Move chess-assert-can-move into chess-display-move
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  25 - Allow an "index N" command to the network protocol, so two people
  26   can review a game together
  27
  28 - Make ( create variations in a display, and { begin an annotation.  "
  29   or ; will begin a chat string.
  30
  31 - Have C-p and C-n move forward and backward plies, and C-f and C-b
  32   move into and out of variations
  33
  34 - Make chess-display-create use require, not chess.el
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  36 - PGN files aren't sendable via IRC yet; I will have to convert ^J
  37   into ^K or something.
  38
  39 - Polish chess-input.el
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  41 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  42   only scanned once.
  43
  44 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  45
  46 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  47
  48 - Add support for ICS observing
  49
  50 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  51
  52 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  53
  54 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  55
  56 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  57   a game object
  58
  59 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  60
  61 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  62
  63 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
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  65 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  66   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
  67
  68 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  69   results too much
  70
  71 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  72   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  73   of the same color, etc).
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  77                               To-do List
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  79 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
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  81 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  82
  83 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  84
  85 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  86   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  87
  88 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  89
  90 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  91   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  92
  93 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  94   it's not our turn to move
  95
  96 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  97   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  98   after every move; use BBDB if available
  99
 100 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
 101   reference that game again
 102
 103 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
 104   game into an unplayable state right now
 105
 106 - Break my dependency on cl
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 108 - Use more asserts throughout the code
 109
 110 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
 111   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
 112
 113 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
 114   making space/return perform the move
 115
 116 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 117   chess games back and forth.
 118
 119 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 120   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 121   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 122   handle cursor-type with that display.
 123
 124 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 125   tells the engine not to resign.
 126
 127 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 131                           Training features
 132
 133 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 134
 135 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 136   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 137   might lead to an inferior position.
 138
 139 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 143                           Analysis features
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 145 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 146   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 147   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 148   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 149   kibitzing feature).
 150
 151 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 152   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 153   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 154   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 155   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 156   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 157   routine.
 158
 159 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 160
 161 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 162   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 163   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 164   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 168                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 169
 170   port the code to XEmacs
 171   profile
 172   mem profile
 173   docstring
 174   texi
 175   elint
 176   checkdoc