* etc/NEWS: New Tramp method "nc".

[gnu-emacs] / etc / TODO

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Emacs TODO List                                                   -*-outline-*-
 
-Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end of the file for license conditions.
 
 
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
 ** "Emacs as word processor"
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html
     rms writes:
-    25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word
+    25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWYG word
     processing.  That is why we added text properties and variable
     width fonts.  However, more features are still needed to achieve this.
 
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ Perspectives also need to interact with the tabs.
 ** FFI (foreign function interface)
 See eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00246.html
 
+** Replace unexec with a more portable form of dumping
+See eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01034.html
+
 ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
 using code like that of customize-groups.
 
@@ -306,6 +309,12 @@ familiar with GNUstep and Objective C.
 
 * Other features we would like:
 
+** A more modern printing interface.  One that pops up a dialog that lets
+you choose printer, page style, etc.
+Integration with the Gtk print dialog is apparently difficult.  See eg:
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-03/msg00501.html
+http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-04/msg00034.html
+
 ** 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
@@ -419,6 +428,8 @@ rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
 
 ** Save undo information in special temporary files, and reload it
   when needed for undoing.  This could extend undo capacity.
+  undo-tree, in ELPA, already does this; its saving code could be
+  integrated without requiring the use of undo-tree.
 
 ** Change the Windows NT menu code
   so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
@@ -529,7 +540,7 @@ rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
 ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
   or the end of the buffer.
 
-** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
+** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs's garbage collector
   to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.  Note
   that Boehm garbage collector provides this.
 
@@ -553,8 +564,8 @@ rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
   snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be interactive?], strokes [start from
   the web page], talk, thingatpt [interactive functions?], type-break,
   vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt,
-  feedmail [?], uce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
-  refbib, refer, scribe, spell [obsolete?], texinfo, underline,
+  feedmail [?], uce, gametree, page-ext,
+  refbib, refer, scribe, texinfo, underline,
   cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?], pcomplete, xml,
   cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual); other progmodes,
   probably in separate manual.
@@ -648,7 +659,7 @@ rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
      [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
+up on top of all others (probably fixed in bug#17439)
 
 **** free_frame_resources, face colors
 
@@ -1222,6 +1233,9 @@ systems for HTML/XML files automatically."
    More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default,
    or just an extension of buff-menu.el.
 
+** Replace linum.el with nlinum.el
+   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00379.html
+
 ** Use pcomplete by default in shell-mode.
    This means to make it behave (by default) more like the current code.
    Use it also for read-shell-command, M-x compile, ...