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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 ** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do
19 not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode,
20 change-log-mode, conf-*-mode.
21
22 ** Change the text for the mode-line tooltips to not use things like C-x 0.
23 In general make sure that tooltips have obvious meanings. Check if
24 all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip.
25
26 ** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them
27 to use it.
28
29 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
30
31 ** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
32 Use emacsclient later to open frames.
33
34 ** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
35 variables section.
36
37 ** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
38 I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
39
40 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
41
42 ** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
43 on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
44
45 ** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
46 the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
47
48 ** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
49
50 ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
51 For related problems consult the thread starting with
52 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html
53
54 ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
55
56 ** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
57 as well as overlapping matches.
58
59 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
60 invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
61 the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
62 It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
63 text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
64
65 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
66 It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
67 should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
68
69 ** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
70 a specified time).
71
72 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
73 variables whose values are currently hidden.
74
75 ** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
76 specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
77 See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
78 <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
79
80 ** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
81
82 ** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
83
84 ** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
85 using a heuristic of some kind?
86
87 ** Define recompute-arg and recompute-arg-if for fix_command to use.
88 See rms message of 11 Dec 05.
89
90 ** Height returned by frame-parameter ... and height given to
91 make-frame does not mean the same thing. The former includes menu and
92 tool bar lines, the latter don't. frame-parameter should return height
93 without menu and tool bar lines.
94
95 ** In Emacs Info, examples of using Customize should be clickable
96 and they should create Custom buffers.
97
98 ** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
99
100 ** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
101
102 ** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
103
104 ** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
105 with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
106 recording which file the latest definition came from.
107
108 ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent.
109
110 ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn.
111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html
112
113 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
115
116 ** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
117 on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
118 under the keys
119 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
120 and
121 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
122 where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
123
124 ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
125 Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
126
127 ** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?)
128
129 * Important features:
130
131 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
132 list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
133 multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
134
135 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
136
137 ** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
138
139 ** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
140 decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
141 http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.] This task seems to be addressed
142 by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
143 very early stages.
144
145 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
146 probably needs some primitive support.
147
148 ** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
149 and/or add a variable to the list.
150
151 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
152 properly with variable-pitch faces.
153
154 ** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
155 C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
156 posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
157
158 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
159 (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
160
161 ** Implement other text formatting properties.
162 *** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
163 *** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
164 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
165 same value of this property.
166 *** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
167
168 ** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
169
170 ** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
171 specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
172
173 ** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
174
175 ** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
176 so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
177 This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
178
179 ** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
180 as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
181
182 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
183 probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
184 in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
185 pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
186 enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
187 port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
188 Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
189 Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
190 enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
191
192 ** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
193 be only full columns/lines.
194
195 * Other features we would like:
196
197 ** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
198 of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
199 properly.
200
201 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
202 from the emacsclient process.
203 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
204 rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
205
206 ** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
207 typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
208
209 ** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
210
211 ** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
212 for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
213
214 ** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
215 and put some other errors under it.
216
217 ** A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.
218 See `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el.
219
220 ** Make byte-compile warn when a doc string is too wide.
221
222 ** Make byte-optimization warnings issue accurate line numbers.
223
224 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
225 set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
226 This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
227 to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
228 in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
229
230 ** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
231 and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
232 as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
233 changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
234 default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
235 customization buffers.
236
237 ** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
238 function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
239 " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
240 has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
241 use to view the advice.
242
243 ** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay.
244
245 ** ange-ftp
246 *** understand sftp
247 This is hard to make work because sftp doesn't print status
248 messages.
249
250 *** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
251
252 ** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
253 E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
254 M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
255 H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
256
257 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
258 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
259 *** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
260 *** support for infix operators (with precedence).
261 *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
262 *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
263 by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
264 at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
265 *** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
266
267 ** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
268
269 ** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
270 of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
271 It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
272
273 ** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
274 from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
275 user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
276 latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
277
278 ** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
279 Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
280 this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
281 Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
282 In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
283 will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
284
285 One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
286 which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with
287 modifiers.
288
289 Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
290 Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
291 the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
292 and later. We should not make this change if it would pressure
293 users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
294 downgrade to versions that require activation.
295
296 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
297 different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
298 Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
299 where one language is embedded in another language. See
300 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and also
301 mmm-mode, as reference for approaches took by others.
302
303 ** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
304 immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
305 input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
306
307 ** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
308 output to a different filter.
309
310 ** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
311 useful sense).
312
313 ** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
314 desktops.
315
316 ** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
317 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
318 Love started on this.]
319
320 ** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
321
322 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
323 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
324 See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
325 use with mail, which is probably a good start.] See also
326 http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz.
327
328 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
329 when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
330
331 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
332 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
333 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
334 when the user tries to use the menubar.
335
336 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
337 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
338 thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
339 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
340
341 ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
342 significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
343 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
344 Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
345 have been missed.
346
347 ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
348 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
349 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
350 what else ?
351
352 ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
353 an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
354
355 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
356 macros in cl-macs.
357
358 ** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
359 smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
360 compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
361
362 ** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
363 but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
364
365 ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
366 not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
367 this and can say where some of the problems are.]
368
369 ** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
370 mismatches that we get with GCC 4.x and proprietary compilers on
371 various systems. They make it difficult to spot the important
372 warnings.
373
374 ** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
375
376 ** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
377 automatically.
378
379 ** Update the FAQ.
380
381 ** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
382 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
383
384 ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
385 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
386 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
387 [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
388
389 ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
390 the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
391 this.]
392
393 ** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
394
395 ** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
396
397 ** Add horizontal scroll bars.
398
399 ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
400 size and its position from lines instead of characters.
401
402 ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
403 converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
404 doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
405
406 ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
407 e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
408 thought this was feasible.]
409
410 ** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
411 (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
412 to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
413
414 ** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
415 is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
416 define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
417 (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
418 box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
419 tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
420 already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
421
422 ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
423 to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
424 access in cases which need more than Lisp.
425
426 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
427 encodings.
428
429 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
430
431 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
432 when the body only calls primitives.
433
434 ** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
435
436 ** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
437 colors of the applicable faces.
438
439 ** Face remapping.
440
441 ** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
442
443 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
444 or the end of the buffer.
445
446 ** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
447 XRender/Freetype.
448
449 ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
450 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note
451 that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
452
453 ** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
454 options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
455 either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
456 they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
457 attributes.
458
459 ** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
460 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
461 This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
462 aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
463
464 Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
465 artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
466 completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
467 easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
468 generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
469 [obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
470 mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
471 snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
472 the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
473 vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed,
474 swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
475 refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
476 cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
477 cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
478 probably in separate manual.
479
480 ** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
481 the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
482 with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
483
484 ** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
485 interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
486 list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
487 other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
488
489 ** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
490 i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
491
492 ** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
493 `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
494 Whenever possible, use value 'string.
495 When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
496 If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
497 the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
498 and from the calls.
499
500 ** Modify the emulation of `stat' for MS-Windows to support large files.
501 The current version uses the stock Windows definition of `struct
502 stat', where the file's size is returned as a 32-bit integer. That
503 overflows for files larger than 4GB. To fix, modify `stat' to use
504 64-bit size, and use a declaration of `struct stat' that supports
505 such sizes.
506
507 ** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
508 only the variable `current-language-environment'.
509
510 ** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
511 better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
512 environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
513 are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
514 better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
515
516 ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset
517 orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale
518 to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell
519 dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting
520 characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for
521 sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for
522 directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies,
523 common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info'
524 needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.]
525
526 ** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
527 Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
528 addition to ASCII.
529
530 ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
531
532 ** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
533 As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
534 in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
535 fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
536 via Xft library).
537
538 ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
539 space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
540
541 ** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
542 in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
543 "japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
544 packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
545
546 ** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
547 but which can also be used as a modifier).
548
549 ** Improve Help buffers: Change the face of previously visited links (like
550 Info, but also with regard to namespace), add a forward button to make the
551 Help buffer more browser like and gives the value of lisp expressions
552 e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
553 for this for inclusion after 22.1].
554
555 ** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
556 See thread
557 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
558 [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
559
560 ** Possibly make cal-dst use the system timezone database directly.
561 See thread
562 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
563
564 ** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
565 The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
566 the window associated with that modeline.
567 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
568
569 * Internal changes
570
571 ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
572 since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself.
573
574 ** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name.
575 Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the
576 one to use when terminating the selection.
577
578 ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el.
579 More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
580 or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
581
582 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
583 This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
584 Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...
585
586 ** Merge sendmail.el and messages.el.
587 Probably not a complete merge, but at least arrange for messages.el to be
588 a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split
589 into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as
590 we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el.
591
592 ** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
593 GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
594 that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
595 this.]
596
597 ** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
598
599 ** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
600 offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
601 comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
602 For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
603 haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
604
605 ** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
606 All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
607 C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
608 switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
609 allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
610 data munging.
611
612 ** Add "link" button class
613 Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
614 button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
615 class to the standard "link" face.
616
617 * Other known bugs:
618
619 ** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
620 ** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
621 From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
622
623 (define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
624 (define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo)
625
626 (defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4)
627
628 C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=:
629
630 toto is a Lisp function.
631 (toto)
632
633 key binding
634 - --- -------
635
636 C-g abort-recursive-edit
637 TAB minibuffer-complete
638 C-j exit-minibuffer
639 RET exit-minibuffer
640 ESC Prefix Command
641 SPC minibuffer-complete-word
642 ? minibuffer-completion-help
643 C-= foo
644 C-= foo
645 ...
646
647 ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
648 not be noticed if it appears within a word.
649
650 ** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
651 sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
652
653 \f
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655
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670
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