* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
+** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
+ as well as overlapping matches.
+
** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
- the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
- ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
+ the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
+ It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
<URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
+** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
+
+** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
+
* Important features:
** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
- display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at multilingual
- font selection for Emacs 22.]
+ list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
+ multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.]
** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
probably needs some primitive support.
-** Add a command to make a local variables list in the current buffer
+** Add a command to make a "Local Variables" section in the current buffer
and/or add a variable to the list.
** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
* Other features we would like:
+** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
+ for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
+
+** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
+ and put some other errors under it.
+
** A function to check for customizable options that have been
set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
where one language is embedded in another language.
+** Arrange a way for an input method to return the first character
+ immediately, then replace it later. So that C-s a with
+ input method latin-1-postfix would immediately search for an a.
+
** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
output to a different filter.
which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
Love started on this.]
+** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
+
** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.
See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
- holidays, quoting characters?,...
+ holidays, quoting characters, space after periods and colons, ...
** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-** Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
-
** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
Emacs.
** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
+** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
+when the body only calls primitives.
+
** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
+* Other known bugs:
+
+** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
+not be noticed if it appears within a word.
+
** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.