annotate TODO.ben-mule-21-5 @ 787:242b62e9fc59

[xemacs-hg @ 2002-03-20 10:20:48 by ben] debug -> diagnose
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date Wed, 20 Mar 2002 10:21:23 +0000
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3 last update: August 29, 2001.
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5 This is the most current list of priorities in `ben-mule-21-5'.
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6 Updated often.
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8 high-priority:
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10 [input]
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12 -- support for WM_IME_CHAR. IME input can work under -nuni if we use
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13 WM_IME_CHAR. probably we should always be using this, instead of
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14 snarfing input using WM_COMPOSITION. i'll check this out.
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15 -- Russian C-x problem. see above.
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17 [clean-up]
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19 -- make sure it compiles and runs under non-mule. remember that some
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20 code needs the unicode support, or at least a simple version of it.
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21 -- make sure it compiles and runs under pdump. see below.
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22 -- make sure it compiles and runs under cygwin. see below.
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23 -- clean up mswindows-multibyte, TSTR_TO_C_STRING. expand dfc
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24 optimizations to work across chain.
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25 -- eliminate last vestiges of codepage<->charset conversion and similar stuff.
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27 [other]
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29 -- test the "file-coding is binary only on Unix, no-Mule" stuff.
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30 -- test that things work correctly in -nuni if the system environment
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31 is set to e.g. japanese -- i should get japanese menus, japanese
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32 file names, etc. same for russian, hebrew ...
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33 -- cut and paste. see below.
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34 -- misc issues with handling lang environments. see also August 25,
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35 "finally: working on the C-x in ...".
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36 -- when switching lang env, needs to set keyboard layout.
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37 -- user var to control whether, when moving into text of a
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38 particular language, we set the appropriate keyboard layout. we
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39 would need to have a lisp api for retrieving and setting the
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40 keyboard layout, set text properties to indicate the layout of
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41 text, and have a way of dealing with text with no property on
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42 it. (e.g. saved text has no text properties on it.) basically,
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43 we need to get a keyboard layout from a charset; getting a
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44 language would do. Perhaps we need a table that maps charsets
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45 to language environments.
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46 -- test that the lang env is properly set at startup. test that
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47 switching the lang env properly sets the C locale (call
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48 setlocale(), set LANG, etc.) -- a spawned subprogram should have
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49 the new locale in its environment.
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50 -- look through everything below and see if anything is missed in this
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51 priority list, and if so add it. create a separate file for the
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52 priority list, so it can be updated as appropriate.
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55 mid-priority:
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57 -- clean up the chain coding system. its list should specify decode
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58 order, not encode; i now think this way is more logical. it should
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59 check the endpoints to make sure they make sense. it should also
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60 allow for the specification of "reverse-direction coding systems":
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61 use the specified coding system, but invert the sense of decode and
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62 encode.
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64 -- along with that, places that take an arbitrary coding system and
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65 expect the ends to be anything specific need to check this, and add
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66 the appropriate conversions from byte->char or char->byte.
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68 -- get some support for arabic, thai, vietnamese, japanese jisx 0212:
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69 at least get the unicode information in place and make sure we have
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70 things tied together so that we can display them. worry about r2l
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71 some other time.
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73 -- check the handling of C-c. can XEmacs itself be interrupted with C-c?
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74 is that impossible now that we are a window, not a console, app? at
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75 least we should work something out with `i', so that if it receives a
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76 C-c or C-break, it interrupts XEmacs, too. check out how process groups
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77 work and if they apply only to console apps. also redo the way that
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78 XEmacs sends C-c to other apps. the business of injecting code should
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79 be last resort. we should try C-c first, and if that doesn't work, then
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80 the next time we try to interrupt the same process, use the injection
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81 method.