1
0
mirror of https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git synced 2024-12-30 11:09:23 +00:00
emacs/etc/TODO
2000-10-27 11:27:28 +00:00

99 lines
4.0 KiB
Plaintext

-*-text-*-
* Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.
* Implement other text formatting properties.
** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
Don't break the line between two characters that have the
same value of this property.
** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
* Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
probably needs some primitive support.
* Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
different parts of a buffer.
* Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
output to a different filter.
* Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
on text properties in the error message lines.
* Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
useful sense).
* Make movemail work with IMAP.
* Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.
* Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
Love started on this.]
* Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
* Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
for undoing.
* Change the Windows NT menu code
so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
when the user tries to use the menubar.
This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
* Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.
* Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.
* Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's
a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout,
ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
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; other progmodes, probably in separate manual.
* Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). 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).
* 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.
* Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
* Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
* Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
properly with variable-pitch faces.
* Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
* 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.