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
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  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
  26
  27 - Polish chess-input.el
  28
  29 - Find a way that regexp-alist entries that only need to fire once are
  30   only scanned once.
  31
  32 - Make any game-modifying commands in a display use C-c C-?
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  34 - Complete the ICS12 parser, based on Mario's comments
  35
  36 - Add support for ICS observing
  37
  38 - Use server-side sockets in chess-network, if Emacs supports it
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  40 - Allow ASCII displays to use a separate frame
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  42 - Still need to test many areas: position editing
  43
  44 - Add chess-game-strip-annotations, for removing all annotations from
  45   a game object
  46
  47 - Let the user specify a default size for the chess-images display
  48
  49 - Resize the chess board on a window resize event, if possible.
  50
  51 - In chess-ics.el, setup a completion function based on handles
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  53 - Break chess-legal-plies into two parts, one of which would be the
  54   inverse of chess-search-position, and would live in chess-pos.el
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  56 - Have elp.el not instrument defsubst functions; it obscures the
  57   results too much
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  59 - Mario reports that using chess-plain and chess-link, he ends up with
  60   impossible positions being displayed (with too many pieces, bishops
  61   of the same color, etc).
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  65                               To-do List
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  67 - Copy some of ics.el's nicer functionality into chess-ics.el
  68
  69 - Need to implement the "50 moves after irreversible" draw rule
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  71 - The game should go inactive once I lose by stalemate/checkmate
  72
  73 - When a clock runs down, indicate this in the modeline, and all the
  74   user to call-flag in order to win on time
  75
  76 - Detect draw/resign/abort/retract, etc., from ICS and common engines
  77
  78 - in chess-engine-filter and chess-ics-filter, if an error is
  79   encountered, skip that line so the same error isn't triggered again
  80
  81 - SPACE to pass, then try to move (against an engine) fails saying:
  82   it's not our turn to move
  83
  84 - Add support for adjournments; also, implement this is such a way
  85   that an e-mail or postal game is basically a game that's adjourned
  86   after every move; use BBDB if available
  87
  88 - Allow databases to return a game moniker, which can be used to
  89   reference that game again
  90
  91 - There needs to be much more robustness; it's too easy to get the
  92   game into an unplayable state right now
  93
  94 - Break my dependency on cl
  95
  96 - Use more asserts throughout the code
  97
  98 - Read-only mode needs to be more vigorous.  There's nothing
  99   preventing the user from using M-x commands.
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 101 - Complete chess-pgn-mode's automatic entry, using chess-input, and
 102   making space/return perform the move
 103
 104 - Use MIME attachments (application/x-chess-pgn) for sending e-mail
 105   chess games back and forth.
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 107 - In edit mode, mouse-2 and mouse-3 should provide a drop-down list of
 108   pieces the square can be set to.  Cursor movement is really not the
 109   best for chess-images.  I still need to figure out how best to
 110   handle cursor-type with that display.
 111
 112 - Implement engine options; then, in chess-puzzle set the option that
 113   tells the engine not to resign.
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 115 - Remote displays are horribly insecure.
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 119                           Training features
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 121 - Allow the opponent to give hints.
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 123 - Add a warning mode that will use the results of an analysis to warn
 124   the user (and ask for confirmation) before doing something that
 125   might lead to an inferior position.
 126
 127 - Add a chess tutor program, to teach people how to play chess
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 131                           Analysis features
 132
 133 - Add an engine function for obtaining an evaluation of the current
 134   position.  Then, allow M-x chess to startup a non-game oriented
 135   engine, solely for the purpose of submitting position evaluations,
 136   and displaying the result in the modeline.  (Also, look at crafty's
 137   kibitzing feature).
 138
 139 - Add a Map command, that will colorize the squares depending on
 140   whether they are reachable by either side.  Green if reachable by
 141   you, Red if by your opponent, and blue if by both.  With a prefix
 142   argument, colorize only the squares that have pieces on them.  This
 143   is a stable modes that remains in effect until turned off.  It also
 144   requires the ability to pass a color to the chessboard highlighting
 145   routine.
 146
 147 - Using gnuplot-mode, allow evaluation trends to be plotted
 148
 149 - Add an analyze command that will indicate which pieces are defended,
 150   how well, which are attacked, which moves would increase
 151   defense/attack/both, etc.  Basically, everything that can be known
 152   about the current board, and one move ahead (on both sides).
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 156                          BEFORE FINAL RELEASE
 157
 158   port the code to XEmacs
 159   profile
 160   mem profile
 161   docstring
 162   texi
 163   elint
 164   checkdoc