- -*-text-*-
+ -*-outline-*-
-* Bring back the feature of showing the part of the buffer that is a problem
- for the use of the preferred coding systems.
+If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
+appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
+aware that the problem is being addressed, and talk with you how to do
+it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be
+prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work
+to the FSF.
-* Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
- display a font as a sample, etc.
+* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
-* 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.
+** 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
+ 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:
-* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
- decent single definition of RTF?]
+** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
+ list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at
+ multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.]
-* Implement other text formatting properties.
-** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
-** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
+** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
+ decent single definition of RTF? Maybe see info at
+ http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/.]
+
+** Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
+ probably needs some primitive support.
+
+** 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
+ properly with variable-pitch faces.
+
+** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
+ 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.
+*** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
Don't break the line between two characters that have the
same value of this property.
-** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
+*** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
-* Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
- probably needs some primitive support.
+** Make movemail work with IMAP.
-* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
- different parts of a buffer.
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
-* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
- output to a different filter.
+** 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.
-* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
- on text properties in the error message lines.
+** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
+ as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
-* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
- useful sense).
+** 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. 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
+*** 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 ->
+ H-S-C-M-s-double-wheel-up, ...
+
+** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
+*** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
+*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
+*** support for infix operators (with precedence).
+*** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp.
+*** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified
+ by elisp code. Thus a char could both close a string and open a comment
+ 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.
+
+** Add a way to define input methods by computing them (when first used)
+ from other input methods. Then redefine C-x 8 to use a
+ user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
+ latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
-* Make movemail work with IMAP.
+** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
+ 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.
-* Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
- so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.
+** 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.
-* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
+** Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
+ output to a different filter.
+
+** Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
+ useful sense).
+
+** Give desktop.el a feature to switch between different named
+ desktops.
+
+** Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
Love started on this.]
-* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
- GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
+** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
-* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
- for undoing.
+** 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
+ use with mail, which is probably a good start.]
-* Change the Windows NT menu code
+** 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
regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
when the user tries to use the menubar.
This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
- thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
+ thread has processed the MENU_BAR_ACTIVATE_EVENT and regenerated
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
-* Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.
-
-* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
- significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the
- assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
- missed.
+** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs
+ significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other
+ packages which might go in and have been missed.
-* Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
+** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
what else ?
-* Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
+** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
an example how to do part of this.
-* Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
+** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
macros in cl-macs.
-* Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
+** 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.
-* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
+** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
+ but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
-* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
- properly with variable-pitch faces.
+** Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
-* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
+** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe
+ not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at
+ this and can say where some of the problems are.]
-* Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
+** Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
-* Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
+** Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
-* Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
+** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
automatically.
-* Update the FAQ.
+** Update the FAQ.
-* Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
+** Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
[It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
-* Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
+** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
-* Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
+** Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) to set up
more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
- holidays...
+ 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
+ this.]
-* Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
- the Boehm collector.)
+** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
-* Port Emacs to GTK+. (Relevant work has been done already.)
+** Add horizontal scroll bars.
-* Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
+** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
+ size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-* Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
+** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
+ Emacs.
-* Implement some variety of (non-gtk) drag-and-drop support under X.
- Using libdnd might be a good start.
+** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
+ converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
-* Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
- be only full columns/lines.
+** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
+ e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
+ thought this was feasible.]
-* Add horizontal scroll bars.
+** Allow images (not just text) in the margin to be mouse-sensitive.
+ (Requires recursing through display properties). Provide some way
+ to simulate mouse-clicks on marginal text without a mouse.
-* Integrate Vroonhof's Custom themes code and make it do useful
- things. [The integration is partly done.]
+** Implement Lisp functions to determine properly whether a character
+ is displayable (particularly needed in XFree 4, sigh). Use it to
+ define useful glyphs that may be displayed as images or unicodes
+ (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.]
-* Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
- size and its position from lines instead of characters.
+** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it
+ to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database
+ access in cases which need more than Lisp.
-* Adapt the gnuserv/gnudoit features for server/emacsclient.
+** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
+ encodings.
-* Investigate using GNU Lightning or similar system for incremental
- compilation of selected bytecode functions to subrs. Converting CCL
- programs to native code is probably the first thing to try, though.
+** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
-* Add a feature to Info similar to "info --apropos SUBJECT".
+** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
+when the body only calls primitives.
-* If you do an insert-file and that file is currently modified in
- another buffer but not written yet, print a warning.
+** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
-* Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
- Emacs.
+** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
+ colors of the applicable faces.
-* Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
+** Face remapping.
-* Rewrite make-docfile to something sane.
+** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
+ XRender/Freetype.
-* Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
+** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
-* Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
+** Reorder defcustom's in each package so that the more important
+ options come first in the Customize buffers. This could be done by
+ either rearranging the file (since options are shown in the order
+ they appear in the *.el files), or by adding a few :set-after
+ attributes.
+
+** Maybe document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases).
This is not worth doing for all of these packages and we need not
aim for completeness, but some may be worth documenting.
Here's a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
artist, ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme,
- completion, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
+ completion, cua, delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head,
easymenu, expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist],
generic/generic-x [various modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit
[obsolete?], makesum, midnight [other than in Kill Buffer node],
cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, assoc, xml,
cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
probably in separate manual.
+
+** Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap
+ the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care
+ with the colour used for the transparent regions.)
+
+** Convenient access to the `values' variable. It would be nice to have an
+ interface that would show you the printed reps of the elements of the
+ list in a menu, let you select one of the values, and put it into some
+ other variable, without changing the value of `values'.
+
+** (Controlled by a flag) make open and close syntax match exactly,
+ i.e. `(' doesn't match `]'.
+
+** Specify parameter ID-FORMAT in all calls to `file-attributes' and
+ `directory-files-and-attributes' where attributes UID or GID are used.
+ Whenever possible, use value 'string.
+ When done, change meaning of default value from 'integer to 'string.
+ If value 'integer is used nowhere, remove the parameter ID-FORMAT from
+ the definition of `file-attributes' and `directory-files-and-attributes'
+ and from the calls.
+
+** Make language-info-alist customizable. Currently a user can customize
+ only the variable `current-language-environment'.
+
+** Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit
+ better to a users locale. Currently Emacs uses utf-8 language
+ environment for all utf-8 locales, thus a user in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale
+ are also put in utf-8 lang. env. In such a case, it is
+ better to use Japanese lang. env. but prefer utf-8 coding system.
+
+** Eliminate the current restriction on header printing by ps-print.
+ Currently, a header can contain only single 1-byte charset in
+ addition to ASCII.
+
+** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts.
+
+** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari).
+ As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables
+ in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local
+ fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly
+ via Xft library).
+
+** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use
+ space at word boundary (e.g. Thai).
+
+** Implement interface programs with major Japanese conversion server
+ in lib-src so that they can be used from the input method
+ "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
+ GNU libc so that the special mmapping of buffers can be removed --
+ that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
+ this.]
+
+** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
+
+** 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/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.
+
+;;; arch-tag: b0a3e40b-726a-457d-9999-ba848321b036