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1 Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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8 If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
9 appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
10 aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
11 it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
12 prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
13 to the FSF.
14
15 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
16
17 ** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
18 Use emacsclient later to open frames.
19
20 ** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
21 variables section.
22
23 ** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
24 I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
25
26 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
27
28 ** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
29 the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
30 a window doesn't select it.
31
32 ** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
33 but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
34 current buffer.
35
36 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
37 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
38
39 ** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
40 the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
41
42 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
43
44 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
45
46 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
47
48 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
49 as well as overlapping matches.
50
51 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
52 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
53 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
54 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
55 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
56
57 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
58 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
59 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
60
61 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
62 a specified time).
63
64 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
65 variables whose values are currently hidden.
66
67 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
68 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
69 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
70 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
71
72 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
73
74 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
75
76 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
77 using a heuristic of some kind?
78
79 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
80 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
81
82 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
83 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
84 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
85 without menu and tool bar lines.
86
87 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
88 and they should create Custom buffers.
89
90 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
91
92 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
93
94 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
95
96 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
97 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
98 recording which file the latest definition came from.
99
100 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
101
102 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
103 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
104
105 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
106 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
107
108 ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
109 on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
110 under the keys
111 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
112 and
113 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
114 where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
115
116 * Important features:
117
118 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
119 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
120 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
121
122 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
123
124 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
125
126 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
127 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
128 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
129 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
130 very early stages.
131
132 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
133 probably needs some primitive support.
134
135 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
136 and/or add a variable to the list.
137
138 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
139 properly with variable-pitch faces.
140
141 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
142 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
143 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
144
145 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
146 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
147
148 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
149 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
150 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
151 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
152 same value of this property.
153 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
154
155 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
156
157 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
158 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
159
160 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
161
162 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
163 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
164 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
165
166 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
167 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
168
169 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
170 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
171 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
172 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
173 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
174 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
175 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
176 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
177 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
178
179 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
180 be only full columns/lines.
181
182 * Other features we would like:
183
184 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
185 from the emacsclient process.
186 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
187 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
188
189 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
190 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
191
192 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
193
194 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
195 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
196
197 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
198 and put some other errors under it.
199
200 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
201 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
202
203 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
204
205 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
206
207 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
208 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
209 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
210 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
211 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
212
213 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
214 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
215 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
216 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
217 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
218 customization buffers.
219
220 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
221 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
222 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
223 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
224 use to view the advice.
225
226 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
227
228 ** ange-ftp
229 *** understand sftp
230 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
231 messages.
232
233 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
234
235 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
236 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
237 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
238 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
239
240 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
241 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
242 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
243 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
244 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
245 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
246 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
247 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
248 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
249
250 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
251
252 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
253 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
254 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
255
256 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
257 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
258 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
259 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
260
261 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
262 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
263 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
264 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
265 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
266 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
267
268 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
269 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
270 modifiers.
271
272 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
273 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
274 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
275 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
276 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
277 downgrade to versions that require activation.
278
279 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
280 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
281 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
282 where one language is embedded in another language. See
283 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
284 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
285
286 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
287 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
288 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
289
290 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
291 output to a different filter.
292
293 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
294 useful sense).
295
296 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
297 desktops.
298
299 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
300 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
301 Love started on this.]
302
303 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
304
305 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
306 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
307 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
308 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
309 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
310
311 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
312 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
313
314 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
315 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
316 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
317 when the user tries to use the menubar.
318
319 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
320 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
321 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
322 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
323
324 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
325 significant work), PSGML, nXML [Mark Hershberger is looking at this
326 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01699.html],
327 _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
328 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
329 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
330 have been missed.
331
332 ** Install ruby-mode (needs assignment)?
333 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00051.html
334
335 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
336 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
337 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
338 what else ?
339
340 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
341 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
342
343 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
344 macros in cl-macs.
345
346 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
347 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
348 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
349
350 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
351 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
352
353 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
354 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
355 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
356
357 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
358 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
359 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
360 warnings.
361
362 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
363
364 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
365 automatically.
366
367 ** Update the FAQ.
368
369 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
370 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
371
372 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
373 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
374 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
375 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
376
377 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
378 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
379 this.]
380
381 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
382
383 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
384
385 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
386
387 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
388 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
389
390 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
391 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
392 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
393
394 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
395 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
396 thought this was feasible.]
397
398 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
399 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
400 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
401
402 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
403 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
404 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
405 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
406 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
407 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
408 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
409
410 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
411 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
412 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
413
414 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
415 encodings.
416
417 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
418
419 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
420 when the body only calls primitives.
421
422 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
423
424 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
425 colors of the applicable faces.
426
427 ** Face remapping.
428
429 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
430
431 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
432 or the end of the buffer.
433
434 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
435 XRender/Freetype.
436
437 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
438 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
439 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
440
441 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
442 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
443 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
444 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
445 attributes.
446
447 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
448 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
449 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
450 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
451
452 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
453 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
454 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
455 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
456 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
457 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
458 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
459 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
460 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
461 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
462 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
463 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
464 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
465 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
466 probably in separate manual.
467
468 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
469 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
470 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
471
472 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
473 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
474 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
475 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
476
477 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
478 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
479
480 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
481 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
482 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
483 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
484 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
485 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
486 and from the calls.
487
488 ** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
489 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
490 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
491 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
492 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
493 such sizes.
494
495 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
496 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
497
498 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
499 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
500 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
501 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
502 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
503
504 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
505 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
506 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
507 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
508 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
509 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
510 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
511 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
512 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
513
514 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
515 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
516 addition to ASCII.
517
518 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
519
520 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
521 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
522 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
523 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
524 via Xft library).
525
526 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
527 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
528
529 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
530 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
531 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
532 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
533
534 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
535 but which can also be used as a modifier).
536
537 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
538 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
539 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
540 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
541 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
542
543 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
544 See thread
545 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
546 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
547
548 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
549 See thread
550 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
551
552 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
553 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
554 the window associated with that modeline.
555 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
556
557 ** When running isearch in a ChangeLog file, if the search fails,
558 then after another C-s try searching the previous ChangeLog, if
559 there is one. (e.g. go from ChangeLog to ChangeLog.12).
560 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02237.html
561 Juri Linkov has a patch for this:
562 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00265.html
563
564 * Internal changes
565
566 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
567 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
568
569 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
570 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
571 one to use when terminating the selection.
572
573 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
574 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
575 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
576
577 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
578 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
579 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
580
581 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
582 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
583 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
584 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
585 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
586
587 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
588 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
589 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
590 this.]
591
592 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
593
594 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
595 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
596 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
597 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
598 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
599
600 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
601 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
602 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
603 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
604 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
605 data munging.
606
607 ** Add "link" button class
608 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
609 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
610 class to the standard "link" face.
611
612 * Other known bugs:
613
614 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
615 ** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
616 From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
617
618 (define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
619 (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
620
621 (defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
622
623 C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
624
625 toto is a Lisp function.
626 (toto)
627
628 key binding
629 - --- -------
630
631 C-g abort-recursive-edit
632 TAB minibuffer-complete
633 C-j exit-minibuffer
634 RET exit-minibuffer
635 ESC Prefix Command
636 SPC minibuffer-complete-word
637 ? minibuffer-completion-help
638 C-= foo
639 C-= foo
640 ...
641
642 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
643 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
644
645 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
646 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
647
648 \f
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650
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