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-* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are
+* Tentative plan for Emacs-24
+
+** Bidi
+** lexbind: I haven't checked the status of the code recently, so
+ I don't know how realistic it is to include it. But it's been around
+ for a long time, and I trust Miles, so I have hope.
+** concurrency: including it as an "experimental" compile-time option
+ sounds good. Of course there might still be big questions around
+ "which form of concurrency" we'll want.
+** Overhaul of customize: sounds wonderful.
+** some kind of color-theme: agreed.
+** better support for dynamic embedded graphics: I like this idea (my
+ mpc.el code could use it for the volume widget), tho I wonder if the
+ resulting efficiency will be sufficient.
+** Spread Semantic.
+** Improve the "code snippets" support: consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el,
+ and expand.el (any other?) and then advertise/use/improve it.
+** Improve VC: yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-(
+ And most of it could/should make it into Emacs-23.3.
+** package manager.
+
+** Random things that cross my mind right now that I'd like to see (some of
+them from my local hacks), but it's not obvious at all whether they'll
+make it.
+*** multiple inheritance for keymaps (to get rid of the
+ fix_submap_inheritance hack and to more cleanly express the
+ relationship between minibuffer-local-*-map): I've had this locally
+ for a long time, but the details of the semantics is somewhat ... delicate.
+*** Derive from prog-mode in more places, close bug#5532.
+*** prog-mode could/should provide a better fill-paragraph default
+ that uses syntax-tables to recognize string/comment boundaries.
+*** provide more completion-at-point-functions. Make existing
+ in-buffer completion use completion-at-point.
+*** "functional" function-key-map that would make it easy to add (and
+ remove) mappings like "FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down",
+ "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t", "uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] ->
+ [KEY]", "H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ...
+
+
+* Simple tasks. These don't require much Emacs knowledge, they are
suitable for anyone from beginners to experts.
** Convert modes that use view-mode to be derived from special-mode instead.
** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
-** 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.
** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
-** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
-
** In Custom buffers, put the option that turns a mode on or off first,
using a heuristic of some kind?
** Add function to redraw the tool bar.
-** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
-
** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
recording which file the latest definition came from.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
* Important features:
-
+** Extended text-properties (to make overlays "obsolete")
+*** Several text-property planes
+This would get us rid of font-lock-face property (and I'd be happy to
+get rid of char-property-alias-alist as well) since font-lock would
+simply use the `face' property in the `font-lock' plane.
+Each property would come with an Elisp merge-function. The merge
+would be performed in add-text-properties.
+*** zero-width text-properties.
** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations. We have
posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
- (see http://graphics.csail.mit.edu/~rcm/chi04.pdf).
+ (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf).
** Implement other text formatting properties.
*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
- significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
+ significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ ECB.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
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