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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
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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 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
333 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
334 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
335 what else ?
336
337 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
338 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
339
340 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
341 macros in cl-macs.
342
343 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
344 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
345 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
346
347 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
348 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
349
350 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
351 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
352 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
353
354 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
355 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
356 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
357 warnings.
358
359 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
360
361 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
362 automatically.
363
364 ** Update the FAQ.
365
366 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
367 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
368
369 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
370 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
371 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
372 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
373
374 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
375 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
376 this.]
377
378 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
379
380 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
381
382 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
383
384 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
385 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
386
387 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
388 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
389 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
390
391 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
392 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
393 thought this was feasible.]
394
395 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
396 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
397 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
398
399 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
400 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
401 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
402 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
403 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
404 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
405 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
406
407 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
408 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
409 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
410
411 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
412 encodings.
413
414 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
415
416 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
417 when the body only calls primitives.
418
419 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
420
421 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
422 colors of the applicable faces.
423
424 ** Face remapping.
425
426 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
427
428 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
429 or the end of the buffer.
430
431 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
432 XRender/Freetype.
433
434 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
435 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
436 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
437
438 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
439 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
440 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
441 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
442 attributes.
443
444 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
445 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
446 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
447 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
448
449 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
450 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
451 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
452 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
453 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
454 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
455 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
456 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
457 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
458 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
459 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
460 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
461 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
462 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
463 probably in separate manual.
464
465 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
466 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
467 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
468
469 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
470 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
471 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
472 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
473
474 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
475 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
476
477 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
478 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
479 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
480 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
481 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
482 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
483 and from the calls.
484
485 ** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
486 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
487 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
488 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
489 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
490 such sizes.
491
492 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
493 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
494
495 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
496 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
497 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
498 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
499 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
500
501 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
502 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
503 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
504 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
505 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
506 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
507 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
508 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
509 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
510
511 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
512 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
513 addition to ASCII.
514
515 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
516
517 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
518 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
519 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
520 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
521 via Xft library).
522
523 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
524 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
525
526 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
527 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
528 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
529 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
530
531 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
532 but which can also be used as a modifier).
533
534 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
535 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
536 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
537 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
538 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
539
540 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
541 See thread
542 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
543 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
544
545 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
546 See thread
547 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
548
549 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
550 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
551 the window associated with that modeline.
552 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
553
554 * Internal changes
555
556 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
557 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
558
559 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
560 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
561 one to use when terminating the selection.
562
563 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
564 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
565 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
566
567 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
568 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
569 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
570
571 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
572 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
573 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
574 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
575 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
576
577 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
578 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
579 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
580 this.]
581
582 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
583
584 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
585 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
586 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
587 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
588 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
589
590 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
591 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
592 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
593 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
594 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
595 data munging.
596
597 ** Add "link" button class
598 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
599 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
600 class to the standard "link" face.
601
602 * Other known bugs:
603
604 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
605 ** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
606 From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
607
608 (define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
609 (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
610
611 (defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
612
613 C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
614
615 toto is a Lisp function.
616 (toto)
617
618 key binding
619 - --- -------
620
621 C-g abort-recursive-edit
622 TAB minibuffer-complete
623 C-j exit-minibuffer
624 RET exit-minibuffer
625 ESC Prefix Command
626 SPC minibuffer-complete-word
627 ? minibuffer-completion-help
628 C-= foo
629 C-= foo
630 ...
631
632 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
633 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
634
635 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
636 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
637
638 \f
639 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
640
641 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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645
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650
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655
656 ;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036