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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 * Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
16 suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
17
18 ** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
19
20 ** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf.
21
22 ** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
23 not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, inferior-lisp-mode.
24
25 ** Check if all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip for all modes.
26
27 ** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar.
28 It can use the same icons as gud.
29
30 ** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
31 to use it.
32
33 ** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
34 of appropriate :type and :group.
35
36 ** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings.
37
38 ** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms.
39 This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to
40 expecting such variables to always be defined, eg when they modify
41 things in their .emacs.
42
43 ** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print).
44
45 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
46
47 ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
48 levels of indirection) and better documented, so it is easier to
49 understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
50 command it will use.
51
52 I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
53 mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy
54 for users to customize.
55
56 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
57
58 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
59 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
60
61 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
62
63 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
64 For related problems consult the thread starting with
65 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
66
67 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
68
69 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
70 as well as overlapping matches.
71
72 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
73 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
74 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
75 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
76 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
77
78 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
79 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
80 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
81
82 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
83 a specified time).
84
85 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
86 variables whose values are currently hidden.
87
88 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
89 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
90 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
91 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
92
93 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
94
95 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
96
97 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
98 using a heuristic of some kind?
99
100 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
101 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
102
103 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
104 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
105 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
106 without menu and tool bar lines.
107
108 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
109 and they should create Custom buffers.
110
111 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
112
113 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
114
115 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
116 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
117 recording which file the latest definition came from.
118
119 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
120
121 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
122 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
123
124 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
125 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
126
127 ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
128 on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
129 under the keys
130 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
131 and
132 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
133 where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
134
135 ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
136 Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
137
138 ** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
139
140 ** Add a defcustom that supplies a function to name numeric backup files,
141 like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
142
143 ** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for
144 dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
145
146 ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
147 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
148
149 * Important features:
150
151 ** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
152
153 ** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
154 had the window configuration mechanism in GNU Emacs since the
155 beginning but we have never developed a good user interface to take
156 advantage of them. Eclipse's user interface seems to be good.
157
158 Perspectives work well even if you do the equivalent of C-x 4 C-f
159 because of the distinction between view windows vs file windows. In
160 Emacs this is more or less the "dedicated window" feature, but we have
161 never really made it work for this.
162
163 Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
164
165 ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
166 using code like that of customize-groups.
167
168 ** Display something in the margin on lines that have compilation
169 errors.
170
171 ** Compilation error navigation bar, parallel to the scroll bar,
172 indicating where in the buffer there are compilation errors.
173 Perhaps we could arrange to display these error indications on top
174 of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit
175 scroll bars are extensible.
176
177 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
178 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
179 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
180
181 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
182
183 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
184
185 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
186 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
187 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
188 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
189 very early stages.
190
191 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
192 properly with variable-pitch faces.
193
194 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
195 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
196 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
197
198 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
199 (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf).
200
201 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
202 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
203 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
204 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
205 same value of this property.
206 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
207
208 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
209
210 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
211 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
212
213 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
214
215 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
216 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
217 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
218
219 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
220 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
221
222 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
223 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
224 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
225 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
226 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
227 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
228 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
229 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
230 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
231
232 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
233 be only full columns/lines.
234
235 * Other features we would like:
236
237 ** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
238 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
239 properly.
240
241 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
242 from the emacsclient process.
243 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
244 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
245
246 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
247 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
248
249 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
250
251 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
252 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
253
254 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
255 and put some other errors under it.
256
257 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
258 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
259
260 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
261
262 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
263
264 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
265 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
266 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
267 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
268 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
269
270 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
271 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
272 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
273 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
274 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
275 customization buffers.
276
277 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
278 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
279 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
280 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
281 use to view the advice.
282
283 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
284
285 ** ange-ftp
286 *** understand sftp
287 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
288 messages.
289
290 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
291
292 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
293 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
294 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
295 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
296
297 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
298 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
299 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
300 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
301 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
302 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
303 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
304 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
305 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
306
307 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
308
309 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
310 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
311 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
312
313 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
314 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
315 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
316 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
317
318 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
319 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
320 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
321 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
322 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
323 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
324
325 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
326 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
327 modifiers.
328
329 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
330 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
331 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
332 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
333 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
334 downgrade to versions that require activation.
335
336 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
337 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
338 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
339 where one language is embedded in another language. See
340 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
341 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches taken by others.
342
343 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
344 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
345 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
346
347 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
348 output to a different filter.
349
350 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
351 useful sense).
352
353 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
354 desktops.
355
356 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
357
358 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
359 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
360
361 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
362 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
363 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
364 when the user tries to use the menubar.
365
366 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
367 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
368 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
369 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
370
371 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
372 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ ECB.
373 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
374 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
375 have been missed.
376
377 ** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
378 Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
379 python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
380 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
381 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
382 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
383 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
384
385 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
386 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
387 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
388 what else ?
389
390 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
391 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
392
393 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
394 macros in cl-macs.
395
396 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
397 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
398 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
399
400 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
401 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
402
403 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
404 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
405 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
406
407 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
408 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
409 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
410 warnings.
411
412 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
413
414 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
415 automatically.
416
417 ** Update the FAQ.
418
419 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
420 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
421
422 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
423 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
424 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
425 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
426
427 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
428 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
429 this.]
430
431 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
432
433 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
434
435 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
436
437 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
438 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
439
440 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
441 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
442 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
443
444 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
445 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
446 thought this was feasible.]
447
448 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
449 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
450 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
451
452 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
453 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
454 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
455 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
456 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
457 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
458 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
459
460 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
461 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
462 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
463
464 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
465 encodings.
466
467 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
468
469 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
470 when the body only calls primitives.
471
472 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
473
474 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
475 colors of the applicable faces.
476
477 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
478
479 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
480 or the end of the buffer.
481
482 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
483 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
484 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
485
486 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
487 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
488 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
489 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
490 attributes.
491
492 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
493 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
494 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
495 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
496
497 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
498 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
499 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
500 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
501 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
502 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
503 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
504 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
505 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
506 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
507 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
508 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
509 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
510 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
511 probably in separate manual.
512
513 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
514 the XPMs so that the color versions work generally. (Requires care
515 with the color used for the transparent regions.)
516
517 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
518 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
519 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
520 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
521
522 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
523 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
524
525 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
526 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
527 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
528 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
529 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
530 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
531 and from the calls.
532
533 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
534 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
535
536 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
537 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
538 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
539 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
540 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
541
542 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
543 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
544 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
545 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
546 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
547 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
548 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
549 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
550 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
551
552 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
553 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
554 addition to ASCII.
555
556 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
557
558 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
559 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
560
561 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
562 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
563 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
564 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
565
566 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
567 but which can also be used as a modifier).
568
569 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
570 Info, but also with regard to namespace), and give the value of
571 lisp expressions, e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face.
572
573 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
574 See thread
575 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
576 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
577
578 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
579 See thread
580 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
581
582 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
583 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
584 the window associated with that modeline.
585 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
586
587 * Internal changes
588
589 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
590 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
591
592 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
593 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
594 one to use when terminating the selection.
595
596 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
597 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
598 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
599
600 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
601 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
602 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
603
604 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
605 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
606 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
607 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
608 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
609
610 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
611 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
612 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
613 this.]
614
615 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
616
617 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
618 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
619 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
620 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
621 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
622
623 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default. [true since 2008-03-11]
624 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
625 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
626 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
627 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
628 data munging.
629
630 ** Add "link" button class
631 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
632 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
633 class to the standard "link" face.
634
635 * Other known bugs:
636
637 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
638
639 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
640 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
641
642 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
643 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
644
645 \f
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