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1 # List of problems with XEmacs. If anyone wants to work on these, please 1 # List of problems with XEmacs. If anyone wants to work on these, please
2 # mail me and I'll update the table below. 2 # mail me and I'll update the table below.
3 3
4 1. vfork references 4 # Core NT issues
5 2. provide working select which supports handles as well as sockets 5 1. Subprocess support is completely broken.
6 3. make "Save Options" actually save options to home directory. Currently I get 6 2. Networking support is completely broken. This is due to the fact that
7 it trying to save in g:\home\davidh\~davidh 7 the model relies on the subprocess support also working.
8 4. build a binary distribution (just install temacs and get user to _easily_ 8 4. No binary release. We know a binary release would be A Good Thing.
9 build an xemacs.exe on their system. This will ensure heap problems do not 9 However we want to make things stable before producing one so we don't
10 occur) 10 have to field too many problems. Sorry.
11 5. provide option for dired to use dir/attrib on Win32 platforms 11 5. Support for dired is perhaps not quite there. We need to port ls-lisp.el
12 6. verify MULE supports CRLF correctly 12 from FSF Emacs.
13 7. get subprocesses working 13 6. Currently the backup files do not get the same permissions as the file
14 being edited. August Hill is looking at this one.
15 7. Verify that CRLF issues are dealt with correctly. Marc Paquette is
16 looking at this.
17 8. Use the registry to store the root directory(ies) of lisp packages; that
18 is the path name, not the elisp files.
14 19
20 # X issues
21 1. Redrawing on my (davidh) system seems fairly broken - I don't know if
22 this is the XEmacs redraw functionality, my X server or just something
23 strange with X under NT. Has anyone else experiences with this ?
15 24
16 Issue - Person 25 # Native GUI issues
17 2 David Hobley 26 1. Mouse drags can cause aborts. I think this is because the timeout
18 3 August Hill 27 implementation is broken and can cause the same timeout to go
28 off twice (especially during mouse drags?), which makes XEmacs abort.
29 Windows95 doesn't appear to provide any one-shot timers (NT does).
30 2. XEmacs starts-up with "Arithmetic error".
31 3. It might be a good idea if someone sanity-checked my (jhar) changes to
32 faces.el.
33 4. w32-make-font-foo in w32/w32-faces.el need to be written.
34 5. Calling mouse_[enter|leave]_frame_hook.
35 6. Eliminate resizing funnies
36 7. Scrollbar
37 8. Menubar
38 9. Palette handling
39 10. Middle mouse button emulation. Dragging off-frame.
40 11. Images
41 12. Toolbar
42
43 Old Issues.
44
45 1. For some reason, HOME is a required environment variable.
46