[Emacs-diffs] emacs-24 r117345: Minor updates in etc/TODO and etc/NEWS.

[Eli Zaretskii]

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revno: 117345
revision-id: address@hidden
parent: address@hidden
committer: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
branch nick: emacs-24
timestamp: Fri 2014-07-04 10:35:22 +0300
message:
  Minor updates in etc/TODO and etc/NEWS.
  
   etc/TODO: Remove items that were already done.  Rearrange a few
   items that are closely related.  Update a couple of items with new
   information.
   etc/NEWS: Mention 'network-interface-list' and 'network-interface-info'
   being available on MS-Windows.
modified:
  etc/ChangeLog                  changelog-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1485
  etc/NEWS                       news-20100311060928-aoit31wvzf25yr1z-1
  etc/TODO                       todo-20091113204419-o5vbwnq5f7feedwu-1501

=== modified file 'etc/ChangeLog'
--- a/etc/ChangeLog     2014-06-29 02:33:50 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog     2014-07-04 07:35:22 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2014-07-04  Eli Zaretskii  <address@hidden>
+
+       * TODO: Remove items that were already done.  Rearrange a few
+       items that are closely related.  Update a couple of items with new
+       information.
+
+       * NEWS: Mention 'network-interface-list' and 'network-interface-info'
+       being available on MS-Windows.
+
 2014-06-29  Glenn Morris  <address@hidden>
 
        * refcards/calccard.tex (section{Getting Help}):

=== modified file 'etc/NEWS'
--- a/etc/NEWS  2014-07-03 16:29:22 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS  2014-07-04 07:35:22 +0000
@@ -1324,10 +1324,13 @@
 "Interlocking" in the Emacs User Manual for the details.  To disable
 file locking, customize `create-lockfiles' to nil.
 
-** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS Windows.
+** The "generate a backtrace on fatal error" feature now works on MS-Windows.
 The backtrace is written to the 'emacs_backtrace.txt' file in the
 directory where Emacs was running.
 
+** The `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info' functions
+are now available on MS-Windows.
+
 ** The variable `buffer-file-type' is no longer supported.
 Setting it has no effect, and %t in the mode-line format is ignored.
 Likewise, `file-name-buffer-file-type-alist' is now obsolete, and

=== modified file 'etc/TODO'
--- a/etc/TODO  2014-06-05 23:31:46 +0000
+++ b/etc/TODO  2014-07-04 07:35:22 +0000
@@ -167,14 +167,6 @@
 ** Find a proper fix for rcirc multiline nick adding.
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-04/msg00684.html
 
-** Implement `network-interface-list' and `network-interface-info'
-on MS-Windows.  Hint: the information is present in the Registry,
-under the keys
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Linkage\
-and
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<device>\
-where <device> is the network device found under the first key.
-
 ** Check for any included packages that define obsolete bug-reporting commands.
 Change them to use report-emacs-bug.
 *** Related functions:
@@ -232,8 +224,15 @@
 ** FFI (foreign function interface)
 See eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00246.html
 
+One way of doing this is to start 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.
+
 ** Replace unexec with a more portable form of dumping
 See eg http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01034.html
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-06/msg00452.html
+
+One way is to provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
 
 ** Imenu could be extended into a file-structure browsing mechanism
 using code like that of customize-groups.
@@ -260,13 +259,15 @@
   by http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-rtf/, which is still in
   very early stages.
 
+  Another place to look is the Wikipedia article at
+  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
+
+  It currently points to the latest spec of RTF v1.9.1 at
+  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10725
+
 ** Implement primitive and higher-level functions to allow filling
   properly with variable-pitch faces.
 
-** Implement a smoother vertical scroll facility, one that allows
-  C-v to scroll through a tall image.  The primitive operations
-  posn-at-point and posn-at-x-y should now make it doable in elisp.
-
 ** Implement intelligent search/replace, going beyond query-replace
   (see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/clustering/chi04.pdf).
 
@@ -301,9 +302,6 @@
   Maybe making Lucid menus work like Gtk's (i.e. just force utf-8) is good
   enough now that Emacs can encode most chars into utf-8.
 
-** Remove the limitation that window and frame widths and heights can
-  be only full columns/lines.
-
 ** The GNUstep port needs some serious attention, ideally from someone
 familiar with GNUstep and Objective C.
 
@@ -311,6 +309,7 @@
 
 ** Allow frames(terminals) created by emacsclient to inherit their environment
 from the emacsclient process.
+
 ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
 rather than interactively.  This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
 
@@ -382,23 +381,6 @@
   user-selected input method, with the default being the union of
   latin-1-prefix and latin-1-postfix.
 
-** Switch the Windows port to using Unicode keyboard input (maybe).
-  Based on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms633586.aspx,
-  this boils down to (1) calling RegisterClassW function to register
-  Emacs windows, and (2) modifying ALL system messages to use Unicode.
-  In particular, WM_CHAR messages, which result from keyboard input,
-  will then come in encoded in UTF-16.
-
-  One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage,
-  which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with modifiers.
-
-  Problem: using this on Windows 9x/ME requires installing the
-  Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), which might not implement all
-  the required functionality that is available built-in on Windows XP
-  and later.  We should not make this change if it would pressure
-  users of unauthorized copies of older versions of Windows to
-  downgrade to versions that require activation.
-
 ** Implement a clean way to use different major modes for
   different parts of a buffer.  This could be useful in editing
   Bison input files, for instance, or other kinds of text
@@ -444,9 +426,6 @@
   multiple inheritance ?  faster where-is ?  no more fix_submap_inheritance ?
   what else ?
 
-** Provide real menus on ttys.  The MS-DOS implementation can serve as
-  an example how to do part of this; see the XMenu* functions on msdos.c.
-
 ** Implement popular parts of the rest of the CL functions as compiler
   macros in cl-macs.  [Is this still relevant now that cl-lib exists?]
 
@@ -510,15 +489,9 @@
   tree displays generally, mode-line mail indicator.  [See work done
   already for Emacs 23 and consult fx.]
 
-** 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.
-
 ** Extend ps-print to deal with multiple font sizes, images, and extra
   encodings.
 
-** Provide portable undumping using mmap (per gerd design).
-
 ** Make byte-compile avoid binding an expanded defsubst's args
   when the body only calls primitives.
 
@@ -727,7 +700,7 @@
 Try (setq image-type-header-regexps nil) for a quick hack to prefer
 ImageMagick over the jpg loader.
 
-*** For some reason its unbearably slow to look at a page in a large
+*** For some reason it's unbearably slow to look at a page in a large
 image bundle using the :index feature.  The ImageMagick "display"
 command is also a bit slow, but nowhere near as slow as the Emacs
 code.  It seems ImageMagick tries to unpack every page when loading the