+
+** 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
+ 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
+ an example how to do part of this.
+
+** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
+ macros in cl-macs.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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
+ 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.
+
+** Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
+ automatically.
+
+** Update the FAQ.
+
+** 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
+ 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
+ more things, such as the default Ispell dictionary, calendar
+ holidays, quoting characters?,...
+
+** 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.]
+
+** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
+
+** Add horizontal scroll bars.
+
+** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
+ size and its position from lines instead of characters.
+
+** Make the Custom themes support do useful things.
+
+** 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?).
+
+** 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.]
+
+** 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.
+
+** 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.]
+
+** 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.
+
+** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
+ encodings.
+
+** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
+
+** Use the XIE X extension, if available, for image display.
+
+** Make monochrome images display using the foreground and background
+ colors of the applicable faces.
+
+** Face remapping.
+
+** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using
+ XRender/Freetype.
+
+** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
+ to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
+
+** 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, 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],
+ mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag, mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile,
+ 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, iso-swed,
+ swedish, feedmail [?], uce, bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext,
+ refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode, spell, texinfo, underline,
+ 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