3 * Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector
4 to more systems, so that we can completely get rid of GCPROs.
6 * Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.
8 * Implement other text formatting properties.
9 ** Footnotes that can appear either in place or at the end of the page.
10 ** text property that says "don't break line in middle of this".
11 Don't break the line between two characters that have the
12 same value of this property.
13 ** Discretionary hyphens that are not visible when they are at end of line.
15 * Implement something better than the current Refill mode. This
16 probably needs some primitive support.
18 * Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
19 different parts of a buffer.
21 * Give start-process the ability to direct standard-error
22 output to a different filter.
24 * Make compile.el record the markers that point to error loci
25 on text properties in the error message lines.
27 * Make desktop.el save the "frame configuration" of Emacs (in some
30 * Make movemail work with IMAP.
32 * Add ANSI C prototype forward declarations to the source files,
33 so that even the functions used within one file have prototypes.
35 * Replace finder.el with something that generates an Info file
36 which gives the same information through a menu structure. [Dave
37 Love started on this.]
39 * Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with
40 GNU Privacy Guard for encryption. [Code exists but isn't assigned.]
42 * Save undo information in files, and reload it when needed
45 * Change the Windows NT menu code
46 so that it handles the deep_p argument and avoids
47 regenerating the whole menu bar menu tree except
48 when the user tries to use the menubar.
50 This requires the RIT to forward the WM_INITMENU message to
51 the main thread, and not return from that message until the main
52 thread has processed the menu_bar_activate_event and regenerated
53 the whole menu bar. In the mean time, it should process other messages.
55 * Make Emacs work as a Java Bean.
57 * Implement the design for Unicode-based internal encoding for Mule.
59 * Document the features of libraries missing from the manual (or
60 ancillary manuals, including the Lisp manual in some cases). Here's
61 a list which is probably not complete/correct: align, allout, artist,
62 ansi-color, array, battery, calculator, cdl, cmuscheme, completion,
63 delim-col, dirtrack, double, echistory, elide-head, easymenu,
64 expand, flow-ctrl, format [format-alist], generic/generic-x [various
65 modes], kermit, log-edit, ledit [obsolete?], makesum, midnight
66 [other than in Kill Buffer node], mouse-copy [?], mouse-drag,
67 mouse-sel, net-utils, rcompile, snmp-mode [?], soundex [should be
68 interactive?], strokes [start from the web page], talk, thingatpt
69 [interactive functions?], type-break, vcursor, xscheme, zone-mode
70 [?], mlconvert [?], iso-cvt, iso-swed, swedish, feedmail [?], uce,
71 bruce, gametree, meese, page-ext, refbib, refer, scribe, sgml-mode,
72 spell, texinfo, underline, cmacexp, hideif, mantemp [obsolete?],
73 pcomplete, assoc, xml, cvs-status (should be described in PCL-CVS manual);
74 other progmodes, probably in separate manual.
76 * Get some major packages installed: W3/url (development version needs
77 significant work), PSGML, Mule-UCS, Tramp (?). Check the
78 assignments file for other packages which might go in and have been
81 * Make keymaps a first-class Lisp object (this means a rewrite of
82 keymap.c). What should it do apart from being opaque ?
83 multiple inheritance ? faster where-is ? no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
86 * Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
87 an example how to do part of this.
89 * Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
92 * Highlight rectangles (`mouse-track-rectangle-p' in XEmacs).
94 * Support simultaneous tty and X frames.
96 * Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
97 properly with variable-pitch faces.
99 * Provide MIME support for Rmail using the Gnus MIME library.
101 * Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char
102 mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.
103 They make it difficult to spot the important warnings.
105 * Fix anything necessary to use `long long' EMACS_INTs with GCC.
107 * Split out parts of lisp.h and generate Makefile dependencies
112 * Support dynamically-loadable primitive support using libtool and
113 support similarly to Guile. [Some work has been done.]
115 * Allow auto-compression-mode to use zlib calls if zlib is available.
116 [It's required for PNG, so may be linked anyhow.]
118 * Add a --pristine startup flag which does -q --no-site-file plus
119 ignoring X resources (Doze equivalents?) and most of the
120 environment. What should not be ignored needs consideration.
122 * Investigate using the language environment to set up more things,
123 such as the default Ispell dictionary.
125 * Improve the GC (generational, incremental). (We may be able to use
126 the Boehm collector.)
128 * Implement variable aliases, i.e. a `defvaralias' analogous to the
129 `defalias' for functions. The implementation should not slow down
130 Emacs, and it shouldn't use additional memory, at least not much.
132 * Port Emacs to GTK+.
134 * Make the Lucid menu widget display multilingual text.
136 * Implement, in C, a ``focus follows mouse'' mode that selects a window
137 when the mouse enters it.
139 * Check what hooks would help Emacspeak -- see the defadvising in W3.