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Improve structure of TODO

* etc/TODO: Various improvements to the document structure according
to discussion with the maintainers.
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@ -29,95 +29,25 @@ are the ones we consider more important, but these also may be
difficult to fix. Bugs with severity "minor" may be simpler, but this
is not always true.
* Speed up Elisp execution
** Speed up function calls
Change src/bytecode.c so that calls from byte-code functions to byte-code
functions don't go through Ffuncall/funcall_lambda/exec_byte_code but instead
stay within exec_byte_code.
** Improve the byte-compiler to recognize immutable bindings
Recognize immutable (lexical) bindings and get rid of them if they're
used only once and/or they're bound to a constant expression.
Such things aren't present in hand-written code, but macro expansion and
defsubst can often end up generating things like
(funcall (lambda (arg) (body)) actual) which then get optimized to
(let ((arg actual)) (body)) but should additionally get optimized further
when 'actual' is a constant/copyable expression.
** Add an "indirect goto" byte-code
Such a byte-code can be used for local lambda expressions.
E.g. when you have code like
(let ((foo (lambda (x) bar)))
(dosomething
(funcall foo toto)
(blabla (funcall foo titi))))
turn those 'funcalls' into jumps and their return into indirect jumps back.
** Compile efficiently local recursive functions
Similar to the previous point, we should be able to handle something like
(letrec ((loop () (blabla) (if (toto) (loop))))
(loop))
which ideally should generate the same byte-code as
(while (progn (blabla) (toto)))
* Things that were planned for Emacs-24
** 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.
** Spread Semantic
** Improve the "code snippets" support
Consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el, and expand.el (any other?) and then
advertise/use/improve it.
** Improve VC
Yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-(
** 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 make it.
*** Prog-mode could/should provide a better fill-paragraph default
That default should use syntax-tables to recognize string/comment
boundaries.
*** Provide more completion-at-point-functions
Make existing in-buffer completion use completion-at-point.
*** "Functional" function-key-map
It would make it easy to add (and remove) mappings like
"FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down", "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t",
"uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] -> [KEY]",
"H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ...
* Things related to elpa.gnu.org.
* High Priority Items
** Things related to elpa.gnu.org.
We need to figure out how to best include GNU ELPA packages in the
Emacs tarball before doing any of the items below.
** Move idlwave to elpa.gnu.org
*** Move idlwave to elpa.gnu.org
Need to sync up the Emacs and external versions.
See <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2014-07/msg00008.html>
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/39992>
** Move Org mode to elpa.gnu.org
*** Move Org mode to elpa.gnu.org
See <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2014-08/msg00300.html>
<https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg00257.html>
** Move verilog-mode to elpa.gnu.org
*** Move verilog-mode to elpa.gnu.org
See <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg01180.html>
** Move vhdl-mode to elpa.gnu.org
*** Move vhdl-mode to elpa.gnu.org
See <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg01180.html>
* Simple tasks
@ -242,6 +172,44 @@ https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
* Important features
** Speed up Elisp execution
*** Speed up function calls
Change src/bytecode.c so that calls from byte-code functions to byte-code
functions don't go through Ffuncall/funcall_lambda/exec_byte_code but instead
stay within exec_byte_code.
*** Improve the byte-compiler to recognize immutable bindings
Recognize immutable (lexical) bindings and get rid of them if they're
used only once and/or they're bound to a constant expression.
Such things aren't present in hand-written code, but macro expansion and
defsubst can often end up generating things like
(funcall (lambda (arg) (body)) actual) which then get optimized to
(let ((arg actual)) (body)) but should additionally get optimized further
when 'actual' is a constant/copyable expression.
** Add an "indirect goto" byte-code
Such a byte-code can be used for local lambda expressions.
E.g. when you have code like
(let ((foo (lambda (x) bar)))
(dosomething
(funcall foo toto)
(blabla (funcall foo titi))))
turn those 'funcalls' into jumps and their return into indirect jumps back.
*** Compile efficiently local recursive functions
Similar to the previous point, we should be able to handle something like
(letrec ((loop () (blabla) (if (toto) (loop))))
(loop))
which ideally should generate the same byte-code as
(while (progn (blabla) (toto)))
** "Emacs as word processor"
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html
rms writes:
@ -392,6 +360,11 @@ should invoke the 'shape' method. 'hbfont_shape' should be extended
to pass to 'hb_shape_full' the required array of features, as
mentioned in the above HarfBuzz discussion.
** Concurrency
Stefan Monnier writes: "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."
** Better support for displaying Emoji
Emacs is capable of displaying Emoji and some of the Emoji sequences,
provided that its fontsets are configured with a suitable font. To
@ -669,6 +642,13 @@ could also be a button that you could use to view the advice.
** Add a function to get the insertion-type of the markers in an overlay
** Improve VC
Yes, there's a lot of work to be done there :-(
** Improve the "code snippets" support
Consolidate skeleton.el, tempo.el, and expand.el (any other?) and then
advertise/use/improve it.
** ange-ftp
*** Make ange-ftp understand sftp
@ -906,6 +886,25 @@ The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes the
window associated with that modeline.
https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html
** Random things that were planned for Emacs-24
Stefan Monnier writes: "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 make it."
*** Prog-mode could/should provide a better fill-paragraph default
That default should use syntax-tables to recognize string/comment
boundaries.
*** Provide more completion-at-point-functions
Make existing in-buffer completion use completion-at-point.
*** "Functional" function-key-map
It would make it easy to add (and remove) mappings like
"FOO-mouse-4 -> FOO-scroll-down", "FOO-tab -> ?\FOO-\t",
"uppercase -> lowercase", "[fringe KEY...] -> [KEY]",
"H-FOO -> M-FOO", "C-x C-y FOO -> H-FOO", ...
* Things to be done for specific packages or features
** NeXTstep port