* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
-** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
+** 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
text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
+** Redefine define-generic-mode as a macro, so the compiler
+ sees the definitions it generates.
+
+** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
+ It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
+ should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
+
+** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
+ variables whose values are currently hidden.
+
* 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.]
+ font selection for Emacs 23.]
** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
properly with variable-pitch faces.
** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
- C-v to scroll through a tall image.
+ C-v to scroll through a tall image. The primitive operations
+ 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).
** Implement other text formatting properties.
*** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
* Other features we would like:
+** 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
+ to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
+ in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
+
+** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
+ function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like "
+ [Function has advice]". It might look like
+ (defun foo [Function has advice] (x y)
+ The overlay could also be a button that you could use to view the advice.
+
+** ange-ftp
+*** understand sftp
+*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
+
** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
E.g map mouse-4 to wheel-up as well as M-mouse-4 -> M-wheel-up
M-C-mouse-4 -> M-C-wheel-up, H-S-C-M-s-double-mouse-4 ->
at the same time and do it in a context-sensitive way.
*** ability to add mode-specific data to the partial-parse-state.
+** Add a way to convert a keyboard macro to equivalent Lisp code.
+
** Have a command suggestion help system that recognizes patterns
of commands which could be replaced with a simpler common command.
It should not make more than one suggestion per 10 minutes.
latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
- different parts of a buffer.
+ different parts of a buffer. This could be useful in editing
+ Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
+ where one language is embedded in another language.
** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
output to a different filter.
See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
-** Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
- for undoing.
-
-** Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
- They split off a few years ago through negligence.
+** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
+ when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
** Change the Windows NT menu code
so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
macros in cl-macs.
+** Make compiler warnings about functions that might be undefined at run time
+ smarter, so that they know which files are required by the file being
+ compiled and don't warn about functions defined in them.
+
** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
(with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include
box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and
tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done
- already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.]
+ already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
-** Fix skip-chars-{for,back}ward to allow character classes.
-
** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
"japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
+** Provide the toolbar on ttys. This could map a bit like tmm-menubar
+ for the menubar and buttons could look a bit like those used by customize.
+
* Internal changes
** Replace gmalloc.c with the modified Doug Lea code from the current
** Add an inferior-comint-minor-mode to capture the common set of operations
offered by major modes that offer an associated inferior
- comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el generic.
- For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, ...
+ comint-derived mode. I.e. basically make cmuscheme.el/inf-lisp.el generic.
+ For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
+ haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
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