etc/NEWS: Mention impact of old-style backquotes on key sequences.

[gnu-emacs] / etc / TODO

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Emacs TODO List                                                   -*-outline-*-
 
-Copyright (C) 2001-2011  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2012  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ things in their .emacs.
 
 ** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print).
 
+** Write more tests.  Pick a fixed bug from the database, write a test
+case to make sure it stays fixed.  Or pick your favorite programming
+major-mode, and write a test for its indentation.  Or a version
+control backend, and write a test for its status parser.  Etc.
+See test/automated for examples.
+
 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
 
 ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer
@@ -79,7 +85,7 @@ understand.  I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation
 command it will use.
 
 I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest
-mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs.  That will be easy
+mechanism that suffices for the specific needs.  That will be easy
 for users to customize.
 
 ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
@@ -165,7 +171,7 @@ Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
 like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files.
 
 ** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for
-dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'. 
+dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
 
 ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling.
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
@@ -205,7 +211,7 @@ of the scroll bar itself.  That depends on to what extent toolkit
 scroll bars are extensible.
 
 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
-   list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at
+  list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc.  [fx is looking at
   multilingual font selection for the Unicode branch of Emacs.]
 
 ** Provide a convenient way to select a color with the mouse.
@@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors.
 
 ** Beefed-up syntax-tables.
 *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'.
-*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings).
+*** 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
@@ -635,7 +641,7 @@ up on top of all others
 
 *** Other / Low Priority:
 
-**** Better recognition of unicode scripts / Greek / composition.
+**** Better recognition of Unicode scripts / Greek / composition.
 
 **** Undo for color-drag face customization.
 
@@ -674,7 +680,7 @@ with toolkit-specific code to display the menu bar right to left.
 
 *** image-type-header-regexps priorities the jpeg loader over the
 ImageMagick one.  This is not wrong, but how should a user go about
-prefering the ImageMagick loader?  The user might like zooming etc in jpegs.
+preferring the ImageMagick loader?  The user might like zooming etc in jpegs.
 
 Try (setq image-type-header-regexps nil) for a quick hack to prefer
 ImageMagick over the jpg loader.
@@ -841,7 +847,7 @@ more detailed diagnosis.
 
 **** Provide an Error Summary buffer showing all the validation errors.
 
-**** Pop-up menu.  What is useful?  Tag a region (should be greyed out if
+**** Pop-up menu.  What is useful?  Tag a region (should be grayed out if
 the region is not balanced).  Suggestions based on error messages.
 
 **** Have configurable list of namespace URIs so that we can provide
@@ -1043,7 +1049,7 @@ was an error in the namespace URI.
 
 **** Better recovery from ill-formed XML declarations.
 
-*** Useability improvements
+*** Usability improvements
 
 **** Should print a "Parsing..." message during long movements.
 
@@ -1243,4 +1249,3 @@ GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-