rosapps/mc/src/todo

   1 * Bugs
   2
   3   - "Files" message flickers a lot when copying files.
   4
   5   - Make the extfs handle re-reads.
   6
   7   - Document C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s
   8
   9   - Check that all the help contexts exist on the help file.
  10
  11   - Make the buttonbar for the tree box work.
  12
  13   - In the incremental search mode, when backspacing, select the
  14     correct file, do not stop in current file.
  15
  16   - Make C-y yank back all the killed text at once if you've just done
  17     several kill operations in a row (C-k, M-d, etc).  [For MC 3.x]
  18
  19   - In learn keys, warn the user if he is trying to
  20     i) define a same sequence as an already defined (if the keycode differs)
  21     ii) define a sequence, which is a prefix of other longer and already
  22         defined sequence
  23
  24 * Tk/mc
  25
  26   - Add drag and drop.
  27
  28   - Fix viewer.
  29
  30   - Fix WInputs (they currently are not very well coordinated with Tk's entry)
  31
  32   - Fix problem with enter/enter on most dialogs (should be just one enter).
  33
  34   - Fix the auto-reload dir problem with the little shortcut option.
  35
  36   - Change the menus for the Tk version.
  37
  38   - name_trunc the pathname on top of the panels.
  39
  40   - Click on the pathname should take you to that directory.
  41
  42   - Viewer breaks with object libraries prev_color is miss computed.
  43
  44   - Tk/Winfo: The program should not recompute the file system information
  45     for each file, it should keep a cache
  46
  47   - The control of the buttonbar is broken in Tk, try quick view and
  48     then press F3 when focusing the Quick view.  It does not change
  49     the labels on the buttonbar.
  50
  51   - UNLINK the file as soon as the ftpfs gets an error during write.
  52
  53   - Port the WTree and WHelp widgets.
  54
  55   - The current size detection for the widgets will only work if there
  56     was a panel before (they assume winfo width/height container does
  57     have useful information), I should encapsulate and fix this.
  58
  59   - Change of the listing mode is broken.
  60
  61   - The mini status has not been coded.
  62
  63   - menubar_arrange, destroy_menu: implement
  64
  65   - Port the interal editor
  66
  67   - the interal editor adds it's entries to the wrong menu
  68
  69 * XView/mc
  70
  71   - Dropping files on root window should create action icon.
  72
  73   - Fix the viewer.
  74
  75   - Fix help.
  76
  77   - Icons for buttonbar.
  78
  79   - Info panel.
  80
  81   - Tree panel.
  82
  83 * Configuration
  84
  85 * Documentation
  86
  87   - Convert the source mc.1 to mc.sgml and create automagically from it
  88     mc.1, mc.html, mc.hlp, mc.info, mc.tex, mc.txt etc. [3.x]
  89
  90 * Extensions
  91
  92    - Hotlist should allow people to edit the entry (like we do in the external
  93      panelize thing).
  94
  95    - Change ext.c to allow the %{..} to recursively expand any other %thingies.
  96
  97    - Write a general grow_string routine.  This code is used in the internal
  98      viewer and would also be used in the profile.c code.
  99
 100    - Allow colors to be defined in the mc.lib file.
 101
 102    -  A command to set the line length to a fixed value for viewing
 103       fixed length binary files. LIST does this with Ctrl-B and then
 104       prompts for a "record" length.
 105
 106    - Viewer: have a case match toggle.
 107
 108    - Viewer: Mark all found matches, and when 'n' is pressed go to the
 109      next page, not the next match on the same screen (when there is
 110      more than one).
 111
 112   - In ftpfs_open, extfs_open, if we set local_filename to tmpnam, use
 113     a mechanism to set local_filename to another place on the local
 114     diskspace (this would be useful for copying, so that we would save
 115     some tmp space). This would require special care in file.c afterwards.
 116
 117   - In Listing mode... give at least three user-definable formats
 118     (using Janne's Listing mode editor) and assign hot-keys to both
 119     standard and user defined (what about c-x f [fbl123] ?).
 120
 121   - Multiple panels - really necessary! [3.x]
 122
 123   - Shift-Home, Shift-End for the input line: home and end.
 124
 125   - Make a mechanism to lock all the mouse events and send them to
 126     the locking widget until unlocking is done.
 127
 128   - Sort with numerical extensions.
 129
 130   - Allow the program to execute a command even when we are on a vfs, maybe
 131     a special box, or make subshell code ignore the change directory
 132     request. Perhaps each vfs should store a local path attached to it,
 133     like in tarfs, extfs it would be the directory which contains the
 134     topmost tararchive, in ftpfs it would be the directory which we entered
 135     to ftp from.
 136
 137   - auto_hint_lines: a variable that would choose to use hint mode when
 138     at least auto_hint_lines are visible.
 139
 140   - Listbox: Mouse handler for the scrollbar: this will be hard with
 141     the current approach (since the listbox scrollbar is drawn *outside*
 142     the listbox control area).
 143
 144   - In file.c, we shouldn't need to get a full path name in order to
 145     work, we should instead canon the file name inside the tar.c (the
 146     only fs that relies on this), tar.c should know about the cwd (i
 147     think).
 148
 149   - Panelize the selected files.
 150
 151   - Recursive delete should (perhaps as an option) delete files just after
 152     they have been copied and not to delay deleting until everything was
 153     moved. [3.x]
 154
 155   - When copying a tree (or moving or deleting), as an option act primarily
 156     on the regular files and at the end on directories recursively, so that
 157     we get complete high parts of the tree if something fails (useful for
 158     ftpfs). [3.x]
 159
 160   - Put into a new and bigger Options/Configuration dialog all the options
 161     we have now to set using .mc.ini manually. [3.x]
 162
 163   - When after deleting there are no files in a panelized panel, restore
 164     it automagically to the real directory content. [3.x]
 165
 166   - Files/Symlink and Link should be able to do multiple links (if the
 167     target is a directory). [3.x]
 168
 169   - Directory sizes should work in background using try_channels. [3.x]
 170
 171   - Support of non-UNIX ls in ftpfs. Perhaps using an ascii configuration
 172     file similar to moxftp. [3.x]
 173
 174   - Have an option to let the user choose the preferred keybindings.
 175     Currently, only the emacs keybindings are supported, add support
 176     for Norton Commander and vi keybindings.
 177
 178   - Find command should have a way to specify directories to skip.
 179
 180   - Add an option that will let listboxes do incremental searches.
 181
 182 * Optimizations and cleanup
 183
 184   - "How to use help" section should be at the first page of the
 185     "Contents" help section.
 186
 187   - Use RPCbind on SVR4, this currently will be left for 3.5
 188
 189   - Optimize the mcfs read and write code: make the code ouput 8k
 190     blocks all the time (if we have called mc_hint_readall) and probe
 191     the input for a possible cancel.
 192
 193   - When verbose is off, remove all the clutter on the screen about
 194     the files being copied.
 195
 196   - The viewer is calling view_update in many places, I call
 197     view_update after handling a key, should all the other
 198     view_updates be removed?
 199
 200   - If the viewer is too slow, some catching could be done.
 201     width and cols are currently computed each time they are needed.
 202
 203   - Add context sensitive help to the f9 menus.
 204
 205   - Add an overlap when going up or down in the file list.
 206
 207   - In the user menu, don't use the entries array, we can now grow
 208     dynamically.  I should take a look at this one day, it's easy to
 209     fix.
 210
 211 * Binaries distribution
 212   - Including all the necessary terminfo databases compiled for
 213     different machines, as well as xterm_color for different machines.
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