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