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# Emacs

- center/top point when
    - moving to text/tag search hit
    - going to man page section
    - opening eww on an anchor
    - visiting a function from its Help buffer
- make font-lock stop background at fill-column or max(len(line) for
  line in paragraph) rather than window-width when text spans >1 lines
- shell-mode
    - add faces instead of reusing font-lock-{comment,string}
    - understand `autocd` and `cd !$`
    - use Bash completions (e.g. `ls TAB` in a folder with one file)
- [.dir-locals changed priorities][bug#30008] between subfolder and
  major mode from 25 to 26
- eshell: `ls --group-directories-first` does not color folders
- eww, gnus-article: adapt filling to window width changes
- scroll-lock-mode
    - cursor stuck on lines wrapped by visual-line-mode
    - cursor stuck on lines with 😛
    - scroll when going down newline with forward-…
- matching-paren analysis fails: `;; (here is\n;; a comment)`
- some modes redefine C-M-h, which makes this binding hard to
  override; could mark-defun consult functions/values exposed by major
  modes instead?
- Man-mode: make isearch skip end-of-line hyphens
- when opening `.gpg` files in a TTY, some characters (e.g. TAB) are
  swallowed by Emacs instead of being forwarded to the gpg prompt;
  these characters are then inserted in the decrypted file's buffer
  (see `epa-file-insert-file-contents`)
- let TRAMP fetch Google Drive credentials from .authinfo.gpg
- icomplete's C-j does not choose the first completion as advertised
  on empty input; it chooses ".", which AFAICT comes from the fact
  that icomplete-exhibit calls completion-pcm--filename-try-filter
  while icomplete-force-complete-and-exit simply calls
  minibuffer-force-complete-and-exit
    - likewise, if a folder contains foo.c and foo.o, "C-x C-f foo"
      hides foo.o, yet C-j completes to foo.o
- calendar uses default X resources when run in its own frame; see
  `calendar-frame-parameters`, `x-handle-named-frame-geometry`,
  `(make-frame '((name . "")))` vs `(make-frame '((title . "")))`
- use compilation-mode-line-… faces for compilation-num-… indicators
- "é" is not erased with a single DEL stroke, despite [Unicode
  conventions]
- sort tar archive members by name; serving suggestion:

    ``` elisp
    (defun my/tar-sort (info)
      (sort info (lambda (a b) (string< (tar-header-name a) (tar-header-name b)))))
    ;; Apply to tar-parse-info in tar-summarize-buffer.
    ```

- add a command or minor mode to highlight marks; serving suggestion:

    ``` elisp
    (save-excursion
      (dolist (m mark-ring)
        (goto-char (marker-position m))
        (pulse-momentary-highlight-region (point) (point-at-eol))
        (sit-for 0.1)))
    ```

- StackOverflow-like suggestions when reporting bugs
- match data vs. `:eval` during redisplay: cf. [bug#31586]
- make vc honour `.gitignore` so that `project-find-file` completion
  is not cluttered with ignored files
- in a folder with a .git folder and a .gitignore file,
    - `C-x C-f .gi TAB` completes to .gitignore
    - `C-x C-f .git TAB` says "not unique"
- add some Custom machinery to save additions/removals to list
  variables; as things stand, once I add/remove items and save the
  variable, I miss out on changes to the variable's default value:
  e.g. `git-commit-setup-hook` recently added `bug-reference-mode`,
  but I never realized it because I customized the hook to add some
  personal functions
- e-pair-mode inserts a closing `$` after point in tex-mode, but
  inserts a new pair instead of overwriting when pressing `$` again
- completions in python.el's comint buffer get confused when
  readline's completion-prefix-display-length is set: candidates
  become elided, maybe python-shell-completion-native-get-completions
  is not ready for that?
- some bindings advertised by `describe-mode` in texinfo-mode are
  invalid:
    - `C-c C-s` runs `Texinfo-insert-node` instead of
      `texinfo-show-structure`
    - `C-c C-e` runs `Texinfo-environment` instead of being a prefix
      command for `texinfo-format-{buffer,region}`
- [bug#31666]: visual-line-mode adds newlines before words that end up
  being split anyway
- `gnus-group-make-group` uses `message-y-or-n-p`, which relies on
  `message-talkative-question`; the message might be too wide for the
  temporary buffer where it is displayed, and `y-or-n-p` prevents the
  user from moving to the buffer and looking at the rest of the
  message.

[bug#30008]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30008
[bug#31586]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31586
[bug#31666]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31666
[Unicode conventions]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-07/msg00961.html

## Dired

- allow "columns" to be toggled; more specifically, make it possible
  to hide ownership, permissions, number of hard links…

- make the filename stand out

- `% r` does not support some `\` constructs (`\#`, `\,`)

- add a face for broken symbolic links

## ERC

- move timestamp to a better position (see `stamp` module)
- play well with whitespace-mode

## Org

- dissociate sub- and super-script fontification from everything else
  in org-toggle-pretty-entities

- org-clocktable trips on DST:

    ``` org
    #+BEGIN: clocktable :scope file :maxlevel 2 :step day :stepskip0 t :tstart "[2018-10-15]" :tend "[2018-11-15]"
    #+END:

    * foo
    :LOGBOOK:
    CLOCK: [2018-10-26 Fri 08:00]--[2018-10-26 Fri 17:00] =>  9:00
    :END:

    * bar
    :LOGBOOK:
    CLOCK: [2018-10-29 Mon 08:00]--[2018-10-29 Mon 17:00] =>  9:00
    :END:
    ```

- make org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c call `(org-clock-update-mode-line t)` when
  point is on the clocked-in heading

- new command `org-clock-in-late` to clock out x minutes ago from
  previous task, and clock in x ago on task at point

## Language support

- fix builtin/keyword distinction for Bash & Python3

- highlight variables inside strings, eg
    - `"a ${variable} inside a double-quoted string"` (Bash)
    - `'a format string's {variable}` (Python; maybe limit that to
      f-strings?)

- do not highlight a single-quoted command substitution

- recognize [POSIX "immediate-expansion"][austin#330] operator `::=`

- in asm-mode, `C-o` inserts a tab despite `indent-tabs-mode` being
  set to nil, maybe because the mode sets `fill-prefix`; the mode also
  does not adhere to the "`RET` = smart newline, `C-j` = dumb
  linefeed" convention for no good reason AFAICT

[austin#330]: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=330

## read-passwd

- prevent kills from ending up in the clipboard
- add command to temporarily reveal password

## whitespace-mode

- skip line/wrap-prefix variables and properties

- highlights the adaptive-wrap prefix, although weirdly enough the
  whitespace *faces* are not applied

- in org-indent-mode, adds a spurious (unfaced) space marker before
  paragraphs; somehow transient-mark-mode knows not to highlight this
  space, maybe the answer lies there

## Ellipses customization

Make ellipses for "invisible" text easily customizable (src/xdisp.c).
Make them default to ?… when this character can be displayed.

Use-cases:

- ibuffer truncation
- hideshow
- outline (org)
- rgrep
- magit-process

## External libraries

### adaptive-wrap

- a commented-out line with no space between the comment delimiter and
  its text will get padded with the comment delimiter:

        ;(some very long line)
        ;; ⇒ wrapped with adaptive-wrap-extra-indent set to 4:
        ;(some very
        ;;;;;long line)

### debbugs

- asynchronous bug fetching

### magit

- customize current-tag function so that one can add `--first-parent`
- prevent section highlight overlay from hiding tag face background
- when quitting ediff conflict resolution, the "save buffer" prompt is
  out of focus, one must ALT-TAB out of the ediff control panel first
  (noticed in Emacs 27; 25.1 works fine); possible culprits:
    - magit
    - ediff
    - smerge
    - yes-or-no-p
    - read-answer
- make status buffer understand and display `typechange` e.g. when
  replacing a replacing a regular file with a symlink
- when ignoring a file in a subdirectory, magit attempts to
  `git add .gitignore` (i.e. toplevel `.gitignore`), which fails
- if the `-n` log option is set in the status buffer, the "unpulled
  from origin/…" section shows an invalid commit count if the `-n`
  limit is lower than the actual number of commits
- for repos with dozens of old branches, it would be nice to have a
  way to hide or distinguish "stale" branches from active ones, a la
  <https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/branches>

### markdown-mode

- support [shortcut reference links]
- move point past header after C-c C-t !/@
- update sub-superscript regex to allow L~i+1~
- make justification work with indented blockquotes
- add "ini ↦ conf-mode" to markdown-code-lang-modes

[shortcut reference links]: http://spec.commonmark.org/0.27/#shortcut-reference-link

### rg-mode

- make -project DTRT in dired

### page-break-lines

- borked in magit-diff

### diff-hl

- colored fringe line is discontinued on lines featuring faces with
  heights greater than 1

  ``` shell
  $ git init
  $ echo "* foo" > README.org
  $ git add README.org ; git commit -m README.org README.org
  $ echo "* bar" >> README.org
  $ echo "* baz" >> README.org
  ```

  ``` elisp
  (load-file "…/diff-hl.el")
  (global-diff-hl-mode)
  (set-face-attribute 'org-level-1 nil :height 1.2)
  (find-file "README.org")
  ```

- in Org buffers with org-indent-mode, lines before point will "dance"
  around while editing, i.e. while I type, they stick to the left
  margin, then when I stop typing, they become indented again.

### wgrep

`C-c C-d` (`wgrep-mark-deletion`) could move to the next line, just
like `d` moves to the next line in Dired buffers.