X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/f7ff1b0f0792f1f870778404531e68e77832c4a1..50ab02c5cc9c84ecb6459bb3b1a041154365f8ac:/etc/TODO diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO index 6019473b92..db1d50192f 100644 --- a/etc/TODO +++ b/etc/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Emacs TODO List -*-outline-*- -Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. @@ -13,15 +13,10 @@ to the FSF. * Tentative plan for Emacs-24 -** Bidi -** lexbind: I haven't checked the status of the code recently, so - I don't know how realistic it is to include it. But it's been around - for a long time, and I trust Miles, so I have hope. ** concurrency: including it as an "experimental" compile-time option sounds good. Of course there might still be big questions around "which form of concurrency" we'll want. ** Overhaul of customize: sounds wonderful. -** some kind of color-theme: agreed. ** better support for dynamic embedded graphics: I like this idea (my mpc.el code could use it for the volume widget), tho I wonder if the resulting efficiency will be sufficient. @@ -30,7 +25,6 @@ to the FSF. and expand.el (any other?) and then advertise/use/improve it. ** Improve VC: yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-( And most of it could/should make it into Emacs-23.3. -** package manager. ** Random things that cross my mind right now that I'd like to see (some of them from my local hacks), but it's not obvious at all whether they'll @@ -77,6 +71,12 @@ things in their .emacs. ** See if other files can use generated-autoload-file (see eg ps-print). +** Write more tests. Pick a fixed bug from the database, write a test +case to make sure it stays fixed. Or pick your favorite programming +major-mode, and write a test for its indentation. Or a version +control backend, and write a test for its status parser. Etc. +See test/automated for examples. + * Small but important fixes needed in existing features: ** Flymake's customization mechanism needs to be both simpler (fewer @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ understand. I find it quite hard to figure out what compilation command it will use. I suggest totally rewriting that part of Flymake, using the simplest -mechanism that sufficies for the specific needs. That will be easy +mechanism that suffices for the specific needs. That will be easy for users to customize. ** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event. @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Change them to use report-emacs-bug. like make-backup-file-name-function for non-numeric backup files. ** `dired-mode' should specify the semantics of `buffer-modified-p' for -dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'. +dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'. ** Check uses of prin1 for error-handling. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ of the scroll bar itself. That depends on to what extent toolkit scroll bars are extensible. ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, - list fonts, display a font as a sample, etc. [fx is looking at + 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. @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. ** Beefed-up syntax-tables. *** recognize multi-character syntactic entities like `begin' and `end'. -*** nested string-delimiters (for Postscript's (foo(bar)baz) strings). +*** nested string-delimiters (for PostScript's (foo(bar)baz) strings). *** support for infix operators (with precedence). *** support for the $ (paired delimiter) in parse-partial-sexp. *** support for hook-chars whose effect on the parsing-state is specified @@ -641,15 +641,46 @@ up on top of all others *** Other / Low Priority: -**** Better recognition of unicode scripts / Greek / composition. +**** Better recognition of Unicode scripts / Greek / composition. **** Undo for color-drag face customization. +** Bidirectional editing + +*** Allow the user to control the direction of the UI + +**** Introduce user option to control direction of mode line. +This requires to figure out what to do with unibyte strings that are +used in constructing the mode line. Currently, unibyte strings are +not reordered by bidi.c, without which R2L mode line will not display +correctly. One possibility would be to STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE all Lisp +strings involved in the mode line, and then pass them through bidi.c. + +Another problem is the header line, which is produced by the same +routines as the mode line. While it makes sense to have the mode-line +direction controlled by a single global variable, header lines are +buffer-specific, so they need a separate treatment in this regard. + +**** User options to control direction of menu bar and tool bar. +For the tool bar, it's relatively easy: set it.paragraph_embedding +in redisplay_tool_bar according to the user variable, and make +f->desired_tool_bar_string multibyte with STRING_SET_MULTIBYTE. Some +minor changes will be needed to set the right_box_line_p and +left_box_line_p flags correctly for the R2L tool bar. + +However, it makes no sense to display the tool bar right to left if +the menu bar cannot be displayed in the same direction. + +R2L menu bar is tricky for the same reasons as the mode line. In +addition, toolkit builds create their menu bars in toolkit-specific +parts of code, bypassing xdisp.c, so those parts need to be enhanced +with toolkit-specific code to display the menu bar right to left. + ** ImageMagick support *** image-type-header-regexps priorities the jpeg loader over the ImageMagick one. This is not wrong, but how should a user go about -prefering the ImageMagick loader? The user might like zooming etc in jpegs. +preferring the ImageMagick loader? The user might like zooming etc in jpegs. Try (setq image-type-header-regexps nil) for a quick hack to prefer ImageMagick over the jpg loader. @@ -669,8 +700,8 @@ view, page-flipping becomes uselessly slow. *** Integrate with image-dired. -*** Integrate with docview. - +*** Integrate with docview. + *** Integrate with image-mode. Some work has been done, e.g. M-x image-transform-fit-to-height will fit the image to the height of the Emacs window. @@ -816,7 +847,7 @@ more detailed diagnosis. **** Provide an Error Summary buffer showing all the validation errors. -**** Pop-up menu. What is useful? Tag a region (should be greyed out if +**** Pop-up menu. What is useful? Tag a region (should be grayed out if the region is not balanced). Suggestions based on error messages. **** Have configurable list of namespace URIs so that we can provide @@ -1018,7 +1049,7 @@ was an error in the namespace URI. **** Better recovery from ill-formed XML declarations. -*** Useability improvements +*** Usability improvements **** Should print a "Parsing..." message during long movements. @@ -1218,4 +1249,3 @@ GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . -