* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
-** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text. At the moment,
+** 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.
+ 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.
+
+** Clean up the variables in browse-url. Perhaps use a shell command string to
+ specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
+ 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,
** 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
+ and/or add a variable to the list.
+
** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
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).
** Make movemail work with IMAP.
-** Internationalize Emacs's messages. [Note that this is of limited
- use until the menus can display multilingual text. It also doesn't
- address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially
- as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom. -- fx]
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+
+** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
+ so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
+ This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
+
+** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
+ as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text. [This
probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
in the menu or by rendering in an unmapped window and copying the
- pixels. Note that the relevant Xlib functions assume a specific
- locale; that isn't good enough even if X can render the arbitrary
- text, which it often can't as far as I can tell. -- fx] [The gtk
+ pixels. The current code assumes a specific locale; that isn't good
+ enough even if X can render the arbitrary text] [The gtk
port now displays multilingual text in menus, but only insofar as
Emacs can encode it as utf-8 and gtk can display the result.]
+ Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
+ enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
be only full columns/lines.
* 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
+ 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
-*** ignore some irrelevant errors (like IPv6 and kerberos thingies).
*** Use MLS for ange-ftp-insert-directory if a list of files is specified.
** Ability to map a key, including all modified-combinations.
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
** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
when needed for undoing. This could extend undo capacity.
-** Merge the Emacs regex.c with the Glibc regex.c.
- They split off a few years ago through negligence.
-
** Change the Windows NT menu code
so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
** 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
colors of the applicable faces.
+** Face remapping.
+
** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
XRender/Freetype.
"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, ...
+
+* 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.
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