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

   1 - Feature work remaining:
   2
   3   2.0
   4     annotations
   5     chatting
   6   2.x
   7     display/database tie-in
   8     analysis/highlight tools
   9     bughouse/crazyhouse
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  12
  13 - Make use of the new chess-incr-index*, which does no checks
  14
  15 - Don't popup the display if it's already the currently selected
  16   window
  17
  18 - Make the drawing/highlighting code just touch single squares, rather
  19   than redrawing the whole board each time (fast though this is,
  20   touching single squares is all that's necessary, and it would be
  21   even faster)
  22
  23 - Fix highlighting in chess-plain when chess-plain-spacing is set.
  24   chess-coord needs to be applied to a larger area, and also the way
  25   highlight locations are found needs to be recalculated.
  26
  27 - Change all of the highlighting functions to use properties to find
  28   out where the highlighting region should begin.
  29
  30 - Move keyboard shortcutting and mouse selection into their own
  31   modules
  32
  33 - Use chess-ply-set-keyword wherever keywords are being set now.
  34
  35 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  36   only scanned once.
  37
  38 - Extend elp.el to do any kind of memory profiling
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  41
  42 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  43
  44 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  45
  46 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  47   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  48
  49 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  50
  51 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  52   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  53
  54 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
  55   it's not our turn to move
  56
  57 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  58   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  59   after every move; use BBDB if available
  60
  61 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  62   reference that game again
  63
  64 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  65   game into an unplayable state right now
  66
  67 - Break my dependency on cl
  68
  69 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  70
  71 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  72   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  73
  74 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry
  75
  76 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  77
  78 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  79   chess games back and forth.
  80
  81 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  82
  83 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  84
  85 - Add support for ICS observing
  86
  87 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  88   playing, etc.
  89
  90 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  91
  92 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  93
  94 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  95   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  96   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  97   handle cursor-type with that display.
  98
  99 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 100
 101 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 102   tells the engine not to resign.
 103
 104 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 105
 106 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 107
 108 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 109   a game object
 110
 111 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 112
 113 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 114
 115                           Training features
 116
 117 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 118
 119 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 120   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 121   might lead to an inferior position.
 122
 123 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
 124
 125                           Analysis features
 126
 127 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 128   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 129   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 130   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 131   kibitzing feature).
 132
 133 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 134   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 135   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 136   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 137   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 138   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 139   routine.
 140
 141 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 142
 143 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 144   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 145   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 146   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 147
 148                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 149
 150   profile
 151   mem profile
 152   docstring
 153   texi
 154   elint
 155   checkdoc