I realize that apart from anything else, TODO gets treated as a list of things to avoid. However, could you at least reference existing work on the topics, even if it gets re-done, to avoid more wasted hacker time? Here are items I know about, though I can't necessarily remember what I did long ago.
* `fx is looking at multilingual font selection for Emacs 22.' should be `fx looked at multilingual font selection for Unicode-based Emacs.' * `Program Enriched mode to read and save in RTF.' appears to be addressed by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/. * `Make movemail work with IMAP.' is done in GNU mailutils, along with other things. * `** ange-ftp *** understand sftp' isn't likely to work properly because sftp doesn't print status messages. * `Implement a clean way to use different major modes for different parts of a buffer.' should reference http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/multi-mode.el and, probably, reference mmm-mode with a critique. * `Implement a variant of uncompress.el or jka-compr.el that works with GNU Privacy Guard for encryption.' should reference http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/auto-crypt.tgz * `Investigate using the language environment (or locale?) ...' might read something like: ** Enhance locale handling: handle language, territory and charset orthogonally and de-emphasize language environments. Use the locale to set up more things, such as fontsets, the default Ispell dictionary, diary format, calendar holidays and display, quoting characters and phrase boundaries, sentence endings, collation for sorting (at least for unicodes), HTTP Accept-language, patterns for directory listings and compilation messages, yes-or-no replies, common menu items when the toolkit supports it ... `locale-info' needs extending for LC_COLLATE &c. [fx started on this.] The item `Improve language environment handling so that Emacs can fit better to a users locale.' would be covered by that, but as far as I remember, doing it that way was vetoed. * `Port the conservative stack marking code of Emacs' garbage collector to more systems' should note that the Boehm collector gives you that. * `Eliminate the storm of warnings concerning char/unsigned char mismatches that we get with proprietary compilers on various systems.' should say `proprietary compilers and gcc 4'. * `A function to tell you the argument pattern of functions.' is `function-arity' in http://www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/fx-misc.el. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
