* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
+** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame.
+Use emacsclient later to open frames.
+
+** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local
+variables section.
+
** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset"
I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face.
** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event.
-** Avoid using "iff" in doc strings.
-
** mouse-autoselect-window should wait to select the window until
the mouse is put to rest or after a delay or both, so that moving over
a window doesn't select it.
-** In C-x d, the default if you type RET should be the directory name,
-but if you type M-n you should get the visited file name of the
-current buffer.
-
** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
+** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
+on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
+under the keys
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
+and
+HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
+where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
+
+** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
+Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
+
* Important features:
** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
* 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.
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
** 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.
+ significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html
+ 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
keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
** Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs). Already in CUA,
but it's a valuable feature worth making more general.
-** Support simultaneous tty and X frames. [See the multi-tty branch of Emacs
- at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.]
-
** 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.]
** 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.
+ [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?]
** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on
** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
size and its position from lines instead of characters.
-** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to
- Emacs.
-
** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program
- converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?).
+ 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?]
** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer,
e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry
See thread
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html>
+** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline.
+ The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes
+ the window associated with that modeline.
+ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
+
* Internal changes
** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction
* Other known bugs:
+** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames.
** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries:
From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>