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@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ to the FSF.
 
 * Small but important fixes needed in existing features:
 
+** Make occur correctly handle matches that span more than one line,
+   as well as overlapping matches.
+
 ** Fix the kill/yank treatment of invisible text.  At the moment,
   invisible text is placed in the kill-ring, so that the contents of
-  the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user. It
-  ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
+  the ring may not correspond to the text as displayed to the user.
+  It ought to be possible to omit text which is invisible (due to a
   text-property, overlay, or selective display) from the kill-ring.
 
-** Redefine define-generic-mode as a macro, so the compiler
-  sees the definitions it generates.
-
 ** Change the way define-minor-mode handles autoloading.
   It should not generate :require.  Or :require in defcustom
   should not be recorded in the user's custom-set-variables call.
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ to the FSF.
 ** The buttons at the top of a custom buffer should not omit
   variables whose values are currently hidden.
 
+** Clean up the variables in browse-url.  Perhaps use a shell command string to
+  specify the browser instead of the mushrooming set of functions.
+  See also ESR's proposal for a BROWSER environment variable
+  <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/browse-url.patch>.
+
+** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move).
+
+** Make occur handle multi-line matches cleanly with context.
+
 * Important features:
 
 ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families,
@@ -38,6 +47,9 @@ to the FSF.
 ** Implement something better than the current Refill mode.  This
   probably needs some primitive support.
 
+** Add a command to make a local variables list in the current buffer
+  and/or add a variable to the list.
+
 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
   properly with variable-pitch faces.
 
@@ -57,10 +69,14 @@ to the FSF.
 
 ** Make movemail work with IMAP.
 
-** Internationalize Emacs's messages.  [Note that this is of limited
-  use until the menus can display multilingual text.  It also doesn't
-  address important issues like using the names of symbols essentially
-  as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.  -- fx]
+** Internationalize Emacs's messages.
+
+** Add a "current vertical pixel level" value that goes with point,
+  so that motion commands can also move through tall images.
+  This value would be to point as window-vscroll is to window-start.
+
+** Address internationalization of symbols names essentially
+  as documentation, e.g. in command names and Custom.
 
 ** Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.  [This
   probably needs to be done from actual Emacs buffers, either directly
@@ -77,6 +93,12 @@ to the FSF.
 
 * Other features we would like:
 
+** Create a category of errors called `process-error'
+  for some or all errors associated with using subprocesses.
+
+** Maybe reinterpret `parse-error' as a category of errors
+  and put some other errors under it.
+
 ** A function to check for customizable options that have been
   set but not saved, and ask the user whether to save them.
   This could go in kill-emacs-query-functions, to remind people
@@ -137,6 +159,8 @@ to the FSF.
   which gives the same information through a menu structure.  [Dave
   Love started on this.]
 
+** Add a cpio mode, more or less like tar mode.
+
 ** Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
   GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.  [Code exists but isn't assigned.
   See the Gnus development sources for assigned code concerning GPG
@@ -249,11 +273,16 @@ to the FSF.
 
 ** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
 
+** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
+when the body only calls primitives.
+
 ** 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.
 
@@ -354,4 +383,12 @@ to the FSF.
    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.
+
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