Projects

Emacs

• I want to integrate my AUC TeX package into the main Emacs distribution. This involves getting RMS to accept as much as possible of the of the functionality, and making the rest an add-on package to the standard (La)TeX mode.
• A widget.el based, mime aware mail compose mode.
• A proper MIME API, based on the MIME code from w3, and used integrated by default in Gnus and W3. Update: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen is working on this.
• Rewrite SuperCite using the citation parse functions from Gnus.
• Make auto fill and fill paragraph work in programming language modes (look at pp.el). This also buys you an indent program.
• Make RMS accept `global commands apply to the region only when the region is active and we are in transient-mark-mode' as official Emacs policy. Status: M-% now works this way.
• There should be a standard framework for context sensitive help, like C-h v and C-h f works now. func-doc.el does what I want, but it should be cleaned up, generalized, and put into the standard distribution. Status: Someone submitted this. See if it is any good, and delete this item if so.
• Create a rectangle minor mode where the the rectangle between mark and point are highlighted when mark is active, and where commands that usually would operate on region now operates on the rectangle.
• Interface Gnus with Tim Pierce's generic score filter.
• A roguelike game.
• alist and plist custom types. Status: I have a prototype.
• A generic tree widget that works like customize-browse. Status: I have a prototype. Ask me, if you want it.
• A file selection dialog based on that.
• A bookmark editor (generic and for w3) that based on that.
• A widget based Makefile editor. I envision something like the `project' window in the Borland C++.
• A keyword based substitute for `completing-read' like `prompt-user'.

Software

• Memory and boundary checking for C++ and other gcc languages. This should be build into gcc and the GNU/Cygnus tools and libraries. Checker and bcc
• Wine windows emulation, especially win32.
• A 386 emulator and a PC emulator to use with wine. The projects I have heard about are shareware or worse.
• Experiment with a file system where directories can be opened and copied like files (the content will be encoded like tar/ar/whatever), and having lots of small files are cheap. Use userfs or hurd for the experimentation. Could be useful for implementing file attributes as directories, and for using the file system for organizing stuff even if it is small (like mh vs. mbox for mail). The OpenDoc file format may be relevant.
• A graphical "widget" that supports TeX quality formatting. Could be the basis for a word processor. Should be implemented so it is easy to add to existing graphical toolkits, especially TK (we don't need more graphical toolkits!). I think there is a project for such a text widget for tk. Fresco may also already provide what I want.
• Make myth work.
• A play by email game in the style of conquer with an embedded guile interpreter.
• A java based play by www multiuser roguelike or conquerlike game.
• A CGI script where the user specify an URL pointing of a gif, and get a X-Face: header back, and perhaps a picon.
• A lazy news server. Only ask for data from its feed when a client request it. Only send overview data, until the client ask for a full article. Later: Try to prodict client requests. Apparently, the technically term for this is `sucking' and the knowledgeable people claims that sucking sucks. Leafnode and DNEWS are relevant here.