From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TODO additions Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:06 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200210211307.g9LD76b15675@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035205744 23796 80.91.224.249 (21 Oct 2002 13:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183cIo-0006BN-00 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:09:02 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 183dCg-0000Xm-00 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:06:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183cHy-0002vE-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:08:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183cH1-0002I8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183cGz-0002Hm-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183cGy-0002Hi-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9LD76b15675; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:07:06 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Dave Love Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8613 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8613 > * Provide a means to display a background image in a window [miles > started on this?] and extract image-relative coordinates from mouse > clicks on images. (Both needed for W3.) Also useful for W3 and Gnus: > allow scrolling images properly. I couldn't care less about background images (my browser config explicitly disrergards background settings), but image scrolling is important and deserves its own TODO entry. > * Convert the XPM bitmaps to PPM, replace the PBMs with them and scrap > the XPMs so that the colour versions work generally. (Requires care > with the colour used for the transparent regions.) It seems more energy is spent on this list talking about such a thing than doing it. I sadly have no experience with such things at all, so I wouldn't even know what to look for. > * Allow displaying an X window from an external program in a buffer, > e.g. to render graphics from Java applets. [gerd and/or wmperry > thought this was feasible.] XEmacs allows something very similar, where a glyph can be any widget from the underlying toolkit (that's how they added progress-meters). > * Do something to make rms happy with fx's dynamic loading, and use it > to implement things like auto-loaded buffer parsers and database > access in cases which need more than Lisp. What exactly is Richard unhappy about ? I thought it was the fact that it allows dynamic linking with non-GPL libraries, right ? If so, what can we do (apart from trying to convince Richard otherwise) ? > * Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design). [unexec > _is_ a major headache.] Grepping emacs-devel for dump or pdump or portable dump or something like that should get you to an article posted by a guy who said he was working on exactly that. Haven't heard much more about it, tho. I generally agree with the rest, of course. Please add it to etc/TODO. Stefan