Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
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+
+As well as the issues listed here, there are bug reports at
+<http://debbugs.gnu.org>. Bugs tagged "easy" ought to be suitable for
+beginners to work on, but unfortunately we are not very good at using
+this tag. Bugs tagged "help" are ones where assistance is required,
+but may be difficult to fix. Bugs with severity "important" or higher
+are the ones we consider more important, but these also may be
+difficult to fix. Bugs with severity "minor" may be simpler, but this
+is not always true.
* Tentative plan for Emacs-24
** Convert all defvars with leading `*' in the doc-strings into defcustoms
of appropriate :type and :group.
-** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings.
+** Remove any leading `*'s from defcustom doc-strings. [done?]
** Remove unnecessary autoload cookies from defcustoms.
This needs a bit of care, since often people have become used to
** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
be only full columns/lines.
-* Other features we would like:
+** The GNUstep port needs some serious attention, ideally from someone
+familiar with GNUstep and Objective C.
-** Make longlines-mode wrap lines based on screen position instead
- of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled
- properly.
+* Other features we would like:
** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
from the emacsclient process.
** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
-** Create a category of errors called `user-error' for errors which are
-typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
-
** Give Tar mode all the features of Archive mode.
** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and
have been missed.
-** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two.
-Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial
-python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments.
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html
-http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html
-
** 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 ?
an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
- macros in cl-macs.
+ macros in cl-macs. [Is this still relevant now that cl-lib exists?]
** 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
** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does
- doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?]
+ doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?
+ Does ImageMagick obsolete this idea?]
** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
*** Bugs
-**** The event loop relies on polling and that hurts performance.
- A better strategy is to have the select part in its own thread and let
- the main thread communicate with that thread (see how Gdk does it for
- inspiration). A problem is that redraw don't happen during resize,
+**** The event loop does not redraw.
+ A problem is that redraw don't happen during resize,
because we can't break out from the NSapp loop during resize.
- There is a special trick to detect mouse press in the lower right
- corner and track mouse movements, but this does not work well, and is
+ There was a special trick to detect mouse press in the lower right
+ corner and track mouse movements, but this did not work well, and was
not scalable to the new Lion "resize on every window edge" behavior.
+ [As of trunk r109635, 2012-08-15, the event loop no longer polls.]
**** (mouse-avoidance-mode 'banish) then minimize Emacs, will pop window back
up on top of all others
*** Decide what to do with some uncommitted imagemagick support
functions for image size etc.
-*** Test with more systems.
-Tested on Fedora 12, 14, and the libmagick that ships with it.
-I also tried using an ImageMagick compiled from their SVN, in
-parallel with the one packaged by Fedora, it worked well.
-Ubuntu 8.04 was tested, but it seems it ships a broken ImageMagick.
-
** nxml mode
*** High priority