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   or ; will begin a chat string.
  22
  23 - Have C-p and C-n move forward and backward plies, and C-f and C-b
  24   move into and out of variations
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  26 - Make chess-display-create use require, not chess.el
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  28 - PGN files aren't sendable via IRC yet; I will have to convert ^J
  29   into ^K or something.
  30
  31 - Polish chess-input.el
  32
  33 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  34   only scanned once.
  35
  36 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  37
  38 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
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  40 - Add support for ICS observing
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  42 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  43
  44 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  45
  46 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  47
  48 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  49   a game object
  50
  51 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  52
  53 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  54
  55 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
  56
  57 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  58   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
  59
  60 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  61   results too much
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  63 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  64   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  65   of the same color, etc).
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  69                               To-do List
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  71 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  72
  73 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  74
  75 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  76
  77 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  78   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  79
  80 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  81
  82 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  83   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  84
  85 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  86   it's not our turn to move
  87
  88 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  89   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  90   after every move; use BBDB if available
  91
  92 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  93   reference that game again
  94
  95 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  96   game into an unplayable state right now
  97
  98 - Break my dependency on cl
  99
 100 - Use more asserts throughout the code
 101
 102 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
 103   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
 104
 105 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
 106   making space/return perform the move
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 108 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 109   chess games back and forth.
 110
 111 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 112   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 113   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 114   handle cursor-type with that display.
 115
 116 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 117   tells the engine not to resign.
 118
 119 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 123                           Training features
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 125 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 126
 127 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 128   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 129   might lead to an inferior position.
 130
 131 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 135                           Analysis features
 136
 137 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 138   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 139   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 140   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 141   kibitzing feature).
 142
 143 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 144   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 145   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 146   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 147   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 148   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 149   routine.
 150
 151 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 152
 153 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 154   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 155   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 156   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 160                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 161
 162   port the code to XEmacs
 163   profile
 164   mem profile
 165   docstring
 166   texi
 167   elint
 168   checkdoc