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 - Make the mode-line much more informative, with information on who is
  16   playing, etc.
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  18 - Add an "mlang" user, and "chess" group to my laptop.
  19
  20 - Polish chess-input.el
  21
  22 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  23   only scanned once.
  24
  25 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
  26
  27 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  28
  29 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  30
  31 - Add support for ICS observing
  32
  33 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
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  35 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
  36
  37 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  38
  39 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  40   a game object
  41
  42 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  43
  44 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
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  48                               To-do List
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  50 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
  51
  52 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  53
  54 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  55   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  56
  57 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  58
  59 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  60   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  61
  62 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  63   it's not our turn to move
  64
  65 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  66   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  67   after every move; use BBDB if available
  68
  69 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  70   reference that game again
  71
  72 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  73   game into an unplayable state right now
  74
  75 - Break my dependency on cl
  76
  77 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  78
  79 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  80   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
  81
  82 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
  83   making space/return perform the move
  84
  85 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
  86   chess games back and forth.
  87
  88 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
  89   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
  90   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
  91   handle cursor-type with that display.
  92
  93 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
  94   tells the engine not to resign.
  95
  96 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 100                           Training features
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 102 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
 103
 104 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 105   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 106   might lead to an inferior position.
 107
 108 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 112                           Analysis features
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 114 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 115   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 116   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 117   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 118   kibitzing feature).
 119
 120 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 121   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 122   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 123   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 124   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 125   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 126   routine.
 127
 128 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 129
 130 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 131   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 132   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 133   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 137                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 138
 139   port the code to XEmacs
 140   profile
 141   mem profile
 142   docstring
 143   texi
 144   elint
 145   checkdoc