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 - Have positions remember where both kings are; this will save a lot
  14   of calls to chess-pos-search
  15
  16 - Make use of the new chess-incr-index*, which does no checks
  17
  18 - Don't popup the display if it's already the currently selected
  19   window
  20
  21 - Make the drawing/highlighting code just touch single squares, rather
  22   than redrawing the whole board each time (fast though this is,
  23   touching single squares is all that's necessary, and it would be
  24   even faster)
  25
  26 - Fix highlighting in chess-plain when chess-plain-spacing is set.
  27   chess-coord needs to be applied to a larger area, and also the way
  28   highlight locations are found needs to be recalculated.
  29
  30 - Change all of the highlighting functions to use properties to find
  31   out where the highlighting region should begin.
  32
  33 - Move keyboard shortcutting and mouse selection into their own
  34   modules
  35
  36 - Use chess-ply-set-keyword wherever keywords are being set now.
  37
  38 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  39   only scanned once.
  40
  41 - Extend elp.el to do any kind of memory profiling
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  44
  45 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  46
  47 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  48
  49 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  50   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  51
  52 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  53
  54 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  55   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  56
  57 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying
  58   it's not our turn to move
  59
  60 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  61   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  62   after every move; use BBDB if available
  63
  64 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  65   reference that game again
  66
  67 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  68   game into an unplayable state right now
  69
  70 - Break my dependency on cl
  71
  72 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  73
  74 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  75   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  76
  77 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry
  78
  79 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  80
  81 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  82   chess games back and forth.
  83
  84 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  85
  86 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  87
  88 - Add support for ICS observing
  89
  90 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  91   playing, etc.
  92
  93 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
  94
  95 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  96
  97 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  98   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  99   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 100   handle cursor-type with that display.
 101
 102 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
 103
 104 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 105   tells the engine not to resign.
 106
 107 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
 108
 109 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
 110
 111 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
 112   a game object
 113
 114 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
 115
 116 - Port image display code to XEmacs
 117
 118                           Training features
 119
 120 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 121
 122 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 123   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 124   might lead to an inferior position.
 125
 126 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
 127
 128                           Analysis features
 129
 130 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 131   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 132   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 133   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 134   kibitzing feature).
 135
 136 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 137   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 138   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 139   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 140   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 141   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 142   routine.
 143
 144 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 145
 146 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 147   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 148   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 149   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
 150
 151                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 152
 153   profile
 154   mem profile
 155   docstring
 156   texi
 157   elint
 158   checkdoc