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+Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*-
+
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If you are ready to start working on any of these TODO items, we
appreciate your help; please write to emacs-devel@gnu.org so we can be
* Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
+** 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.
+
+** describe-face should show an example of text in the face.
+
+** Distribute a bar cursor of width > 1 evenly between the two glyphs
+ on each side of the bar (what to do at the edges?).
+
+** Make vc-checkin avoid reverting the buffer if has not changed after
+ the checkin. Comparing (md5 BUFFER) to (md5 FILE) should be enough.
+
+** buffer-offer-save should be a permanent local.
+
** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text.
It should not generate :require. Or :require in defcustom
should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
+** Feature to change cursor shape when Emacs is idle (for more than
+ a specified time).
+
** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
variables whose values are currently hidden.
** The toolbar should show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips.
+** Modify allout.el to use overlays, like outline.el.
+
+** M-! M-n should fetch the buffer-file-name as the default.
+
+** Redesign the load-history data structure so it can cope better
+ with evaluating definitions of the same function from different files,
+ recording which file the latest definition came from.
+
* Important features:
** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
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.
+
** Rewrite the face code to be simpler, clearer and faster.
** Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF. [Is there actually a
** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+** Set up a facility to save backtraces when errors happen during
+specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks.
+
** Install mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's no-flicker change.
** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
* Other features we would like:
+** 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'
for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
to save their changes. If the user says yes, show them
in a Custom buffer using customize-customized.
+** Record the sxhash of the default value for customized variables
+ and notify the user (maybe by adding a menu item or toolbar button,
+ as the detection can occur during autoload time) when the default
+ changes (meaning that new versions of the Lisp source with a changed
+ default value got installed) and offer ediff on the respective
+ customization buffers.
+
** Emacs Lisp mode could put an overlay on the defun for every
- function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like "
- [Function has advice]". It might look like
- (defun foo [Function has advice] (x y)
- The overlay could also be a button that you could use to view the advice.
+ function that has advice. The overlay could have `after-text' like
+ " [Function has advice]". It might look like (defun foo [Function
+ has advice] (x y) The overlay could also be a button that you could
+ use to view the advice.
** ange-ftp
*** understand sftp
** 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
+** 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
** Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.
+** Add definitions for symbol properties, for documentation purposes.
+
** Add horizontal scroll bars.
** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's
** Face remapping.
+** Make `format-time-string' preserve text properties like `format'.
+
** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line
or the end of the buffer.
"japanese". Currently, most Japanese users are using external
packages (e.g. tamago, anthy) or an input method via XIM.
+** Let LEIM handle the Mode_switch key like XIM does (i.e. a toggle like C-\
+but which can also be used as a modifier).
+
** 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.
e.g auto-mode-alist, the right face. [nickrob@snap.net.nz has a patch
for this for inclusion after 22.1].
+** Possibly make `list-holidays' eval items in the calendar-holidays variable.
+ See thread
+ <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-02/msg01034.html>.
+ [rgm@gnu.org will look at this after 22.1]
+
* 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
+ that apparently loses under Solaris, at least. [fx has mostly done
this.]
** Rewrite make-docfile to be clean and maintainable.
For use by sml-mode, python-mode, tex-mode, scheme-mode, lisp-mode,
haskell-mode, tuareg-mode, ...
+** Make SYNC_INPUT the default.
+ All loops using immediate_quit need to be checked to ensure that
+ C-g can interrupt them, in case of an infinite loop. Once we
+ switch to using SYNC_INPUT, we can remove the BLOCK_INPUTs in the
+ allocation functions (allocate_string etc.) without worrying about
+ data munging.
+
+** Add "link" button class
+ Add a standard button-class named "link", and make all other link-like
+ button classes inherit from it. Set the default face of the "link" button
+ class to the standard "link" face.
+
* Other known bugs:
** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will
** Fix unexelf.c to handle the .data.rel and .data.rel.local
sections made by GCC 3.4 on IRIX.
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