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- * Bugs
-
- Far better to have cons.saver itself calling ttyname(), just by not
- connecting its stderr to /dev/null (it doesn't use it, does it?).
- If you really want to, you can do it after exec().
-
- - Document C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s
-
- - Sort is wrong: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/# files.
-
- - Check that all the help contexts exist on the help file.
-
- - Make the buttonbar for the tree box work.
-
- - Fix the tree: it displays similar entries wrong.
-
- - In the incremental search mode, when backspacing, select the
- correct file, do not stop in current file.
-
- - Make C-y yank back all the killed text at once if you've just done
- several kill operations in a row (C-k, M-d, etc). [For MC 3.x]
-
- - In learn keys, warn the user if he is trying to
- i) define a same sequence as an already defined (if the keycode differs)
- ii) define a sequence, which is a prefix of other longer and already
- defined sequence
-
- - Fix freeing of memory when tar loading crashes. [3.x]
-
- * Tk/mc
-
- - name_trunc the pathname on top of the panels.
-
- - Click on the pathname should take you to that directory.
-
- - Viewer breask with object libraries prev_color is miss computed.
-
- - Tk/Winfo: The program should not recompute the file system information
- for each file, it should keep a cache
-
- - The control of the buttonbar is broken in Tk, try quick view and
- then press F3 when focusing the Quick view. It does not change
- the labels on the buttonbar.
-
- - UNLINK the file as soon as the ftpfs gets an error during write.
-
- - Port the WTree and WHelp widgets.
-
- - The current size detection for the widgets will only work if there
- was a panel before (they assume winfo width/height container does
- have useful information), I should encapsulate and fix this.
-
- - Change of the listing mode is broken.
-
- - The mini status has not been coded.
-
- * XView/mc
-
- - Dropping files on root window should create action icon.
-
- - Fix the viewer.
-
- - Fix help.
-
- - Icons for buttonbar.
-
- - Info panel.
-
- - Tree panel.
-
- * Configuration
-
- - HPUX needs -Aa and _HPUX_SOURCE defined, is there any way to
- detect this?
-
- * Documentation
-
- - Convert the source mc.1 to mc.sgml and create automagically from it
- mc.1, mc.html, mc.hlp, mc.info, mc.tex, mc.txt etc. [3.x]
-
- * Extensions
-
- - Write a general grow_string routine. This code is used in the internal
- viewer and would also be used in the profile.c code.
-
- - Allow colors to be defined in the mc.lib file.
-
- - A command to set the line length to a fixed value for viewing
- fixed length binary files. LIST does this with Ctrl-B and then
- prompts for a "record" length.
-
- - A ruler that shows the column positions when viewing a file. Again,
- from LIST, the keystroke command is Alt-R to invoke the ruler.
-
- - The 8 bit clean option in the option/config menu is not needed anymore
- we have display bits and slang does not have the ncurses bug, so
- we could move one of the other variables that are not needed to the
- config box. Suggestions?
-
- - Viewer: have a case match toggle.
-
- - Viewer: Mark all found matches, and when 'n' is pressed go to the
- next page, not the next match on the same screen (when there is
- more than one).
-
- - In ftpfs_open, extfs_open, if we set local_filename to tmpnam, use
- a mechanism to set local_filename to another place on the local
- diskspace (this would be useful for copying, so that we would save
- some tmp space). This would require special care in file.c afterwards.
-
- - In Listing mode... give at least three user-definable formats
- (using Janne's Listing mode editor) and assign hot-keys to both
- standard and user defined (what about c-x f [fbl123] ?).
-
- - Multiple panels - really necessary! [3.x]
-
- - Shift-Home, Shift-End for the input line: home and end.
-
- - Control-Left Control-Right move by words.g
-
- - Make a mechanism to lock all the mouse events and send them to
- the locking widget until unlocking is done.
-
- - Sort with numerical extensions.
-
- - Allow the program to execute a command even when we are on a vfs, maybe
- a special box, or make subshell code ignore the change directory
- request. Perhaps each vfs should store a local path attached to it,
- like in tarfs, extfs it would be the directory which contains the
- topmost tararchive, in ftpfs it would be the directory which we entered
- to ftp from.
-
- - auto_hint_lines: a variable that would choose to use hint mode when
- at least auto_hint_lines are visible.
-
- - After SIGWINCH, set top to the best value.
-
- - Listbox: Mouse handler for the scrollbar: this will be hard with
- the current approach (since the listbox scrollbar is drawn *outside*
- the listbox control area).
-
- - In file.c, we shouldn't need to get a full path name in order to
- work, we should instead canon the file name inside the tar.c (the
- only fs that relies on this), tar.c should know about the cwd (i
- think).
-
- - Panelize the selected files.
-
- - Write a generic file system that would invoke a program with
- special arguments to provide any kind of file systems (the program
- could be a shell file, and we could provide .zip and .deb support).
- It is already in an ALPHA stage and won't be released with MC 3.0.
- Wait for MC 3.1. Currently works for zip, zoo, ls-lR and your favourite
- ftplist. [For MC 3.1]
-
- - Make all our vfs's work under userfs (Unix filesystem which runs
- user-space programs to do it's work). Then e.g. an ftp server would
- allow you to browse tar files in place using ftp... [3.x]
-
- - Recursive delete should (perhaps as an option) delete files just after
- they have been copied and not to delay deleting until everything was
- moved. [3.x]
-
- - When copying a tree (or moving or deleting), as an option act primarily
- on the regular files and at the end on directories recursively, so that
- we get complete high parts of the tree if something fails (useful for
- ftpfs). [3.x]
-
- - Put into a new and bigger Options/Configuration dialog all the options
- we have now to set using .mc.ini manually. [3.x]
-
- - When after deleting there are no files in a panelized panel, restore
- it automagically to the real directory content. [3.x]
-
- - Files/Symlink and Link should be able to do multiple links (if the
- target is a directory). [3.x]
-
- - Directory sizes should work in background using try_channels. [3.x]
-
- - Support of non-UNIX ls in ftpfs. Perhaps using an ascii configuration
- file similar to moxftp. [3.x]
-
- - Archie support using extfs. [3.x]
-
- - Have an option to let the user choose the preferred keybindings.
- Currently, only the emacs keybindings are supported, add support
- for Norton Commander and vi keybindings.
-
- - Find command should have a way to specify directories to skip.
-
- - Add an option that will let listboxes do incremental searches.
-
- * Optimizations and cleanup
-
- - Use RPCbind on SVR4, this currently will be left for 3.5
-
- - Optimize the mcfs read and write code: make the code ouput 8k
- blocks all the time (if we have called mc_hint_readall) and probe
- the input for a possible cancel.
-
- - When verbose is off, remove all the clutter on the screen about
- the files being copied.
-
- - The viewer is calling view_update in many places, I call
- view_update after handling a key, should all the other
- view_updates be removed?
-
- - If the viewer is too slow, some catching could be done.
- width and cols are currently computed each time they are needed.
-
- - Add context sensitive help to the f9 menus.
-
- - Add an overlap when going up or down in the file list.
-
- - In the user menu, don't use the entries array, we can now grow
- dynamically. I should take a look at this one day, it's easy to
- fix.
-
- * Binaries distribution
- - Including all the necessary terminfo databases compiled for
- different machines, as well as xterm_color for different machines.
-
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