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@@ -12,35 +12,48 @@ it best. Since Emacs is an FSF-copyrighted package, please be prepared to sign legal papers to transfer the copyright on your work to the FSF. -* Small but important fixes needed in existing features: +* Simple tasks. These don't require much emacs knowledge, they are +suitable for anyone from beginners to experts. -** Fix compilation when Xaw3d libraries are present but libxaw is not. -In new X11 versions, xaw3dg-dev does not depend on libxaw-dev, so the -latter need not be installed. As a result, all the source files that -look for include files in X11/Xaw should look in X11/Xaw3d if we are -using Xaw3d. +** make emacsclient accept -nw as a synonym to -t. -** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event. +** Replace some uses of the preprocessor code in Makefile.in with the equivalent autoconf. + +** Major modes should have a menu entry. Examples of modes that do +not have one at the moment and probably should: text-mode, +change-log-mode, conf-*-mode, debugger-mode. + +** Change the text for the mode-line tooltips to not use things like C-x 0. +In general make sure that tooltips have obvious meanings. Check if +all items on the mode-line have a suitable tooltip. + +** edebug and debugger-mode should have a toolbar. +It can use the same icons as gud. + +** Check what minor modes don't use define-minor-mode and convert them +to use it. + +* 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. +** Make "emacs --daemon" start emacs without showing any frame. +Use emacsclient later to open frames. -** 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. +** Make it possible to reliably turn on minor modes using "mode:" in the local +variables section. -** describe-face should show an example of text in the face. +** "Options -> Save Options" should save the font set via "Set Font/Fontset" +I.e. mouse-set-font should use customize-face. + +** Compute the list of active keymaps *after* reading the first event. ** 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. + For related problems consult the thread starting with + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-11/msg01346.html ** erase-buffer should perhaps disregard read-only properties of text. @@ -98,15 +111,25 @@ current buffer. ** make back_comment use syntax-ppss or equivalent. -** Improve configure's treatment of NON_GNU_CPP on Solaris. -(patch available for after Emacs 22) - ** Consider improving src/sysdep.c's search for a fqdn. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00782.html ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html +** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info' +on MS-Windows. Hint: the information is present in the Registry, +under the keys +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\ +and +HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\ +where <device> is the network device found under the first key. + +** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands. +Change them to use report-emacs-bug. + +** Allow fringe indicators to display a tooltip (provide a help-echo property?) + * Important features: ** Provide user-friendly ways to list all available font families, @@ -179,8 +202,11 @@ specified filters, specified timers, and specified hooks. of character position, so that variable-width fonts can be handled properly. +** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment +from the emacsclient process. ** 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. @@ -317,8 +343,18 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages. ** Get some major packages installed: W3 (development version needs - significant work), PSGML. Check the assignments file for other - packages which might go in and have been missed. + significant work), PSGML, _possibly_ Cedet and ECB. + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01493.html + Check the assignments file for other packages which might go in and + have been missed. + +** Possibly install python-mode in place of python.el, or combine the two. +Someone needs to do the work of figuring out who all the non-trivial +python-mode.el contributors are and getting assignments. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02156.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02201.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02489.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02234.html ** Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ? @@ -338,9 +374,6 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. ** 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 - at http://lorentey.hu/project/emacs.] - ** Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library. [Maybe not now feasible, given Gnus maintenance decisions. fx looked at this and can say where some of the problems are.] @@ -363,6 +396,7 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. ** Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration. + [Do the existing -Q and -D cover this, or is more needed?] ** Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use the Boehm collector.) [See the Boehm-GC branch in CVS for work on @@ -377,20 +411,9 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. ** Provide an optional feature which computes a scroll bar slider's size and its position from lines instead of characters. -** Add support for SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) rendering to - Emacs. - ** Allow unknown image types to be rendered via an external program - converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). - -** Display images with alpha channels, such as png, with the current -background color of whatever frame it is displayed in. Currently, we -use the default background color if specified in the png file, or, if -that is unspecified, the background color of the frame in which the -image was first created. Ideally, the image should display the -background color of whichever frame it is being displayed in. The -main complication is that this will require the loading of a new image -object for each different background color. + converting them to, say, PBM (in the same way as PostScript?). [does + doc-view.el do this, or could it be extended to do this?] ** Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer, e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry @@ -406,7 +429,7 @@ object for each different background color. (with ASCIIfied fallback via latin1-disp). Examples include box-drawing graphics in Custom buffers, W3 rules and tables, and tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator. [See work done - already for Emacs 22 and consult fx.] + already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.] ** Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database @@ -432,9 +455,6 @@ when the body only calls primitives. ** Optionally make the cursor a little thinner at the end of a line or the end of the buffer. -** Add support for rendering antialiased text, probably using - XRender/Freetype. - ** Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs. Note that Boehm garbage collector provides this. @@ -518,12 +538,6 @@ when the body only calls primitives. ** In ps-print, provide an user friendly interface to specify fonts. -** OpenType font support for various complex scripts (e.g. Devanagari). - As X protocal doesn't provide a way to access OpenType Layout Tables - in a OpenType font of a server side, we need a way to utilize local - fonts (perhaps by directly using the Freetype library or indirectly - via Xft library). - ** Enhance word boundary detection for such a script that doesn't use space at word boundary (e.g. Thai). @@ -550,11 +564,20 @@ but which can also be used as a modifier). See thread <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2006-11/msg00060.html> +** Possibly add a "close" button to the modeline. + The idea is to add an "X" of some kind, that when clicked deletes + the window associated with that modeline. + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg02416.html + * Internal changes ** Cleanup all the GC_ mark bit stuff -- there is no longer any distinction since the mark bit is no longer stored in the Lisp_Object itself. +** Refine the `predicate' arg to read-file-name. + Currently, it mixes up the predicate to apply when doing completion and the + one to use when terminating the selection. + ** Merge ibuffer.el and buff-menu.el. More specifically do what's needed to make ibuffer.el the default, or just an extension of buff-menu.el. @@ -568,7 +591,7 @@ but which can also be used as a modifier). a derived mode of sendmail.el. Or arrange for messages.el to be split into a small core and "the rest" so that we use less resources as long as we stick to the features provided in sendmail.el. - + ** 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 @@ -596,6 +619,34 @@ but which can also be used as a modifier). * Other known bugs: +** `make-frame' forgets unhandled parameters, at least for X11 frames. +** The \\{...} keymap dump output does not correctly remove shadowed entries: +From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> + +(define-key minibuffer-local-map [(control ?=)] 'foo) +(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map [(control ?=)] 'foo) + +(defun toto () "\\{minibuffer-local-completion-map}" 4) + +C-h f toto shows a duplicate entry for C-=: + +toto is a Lisp function. +(toto) + +key binding +- --- ------- + +C-g abort-recursive-edit +TAB minibuffer-complete +C-j exit-minibuffer +RET exit-minibuffer +ESC Prefix Command +SPC minibuffer-complete-word +? minibuffer-completion-help +C-= foo +C-= foo +... + ** a two-char comment-starter whose two chars are symbol constituents will not be noticed if it appears within a word. |