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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2007-04-03 10:11:47 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2007-04-03 10:11:47 +0000 |
commit | 2fa4f835d811d707b3adcd4b2c69d3637ad9fff0 (patch) | |
tree | 7bb93e2bbf3fac2026f9f78e88abb92c21a73301 | |
parent | a4e03d18f8239dcee619c8fb8cb334d1db641783 (diff) | |
download | emacs-2fa4f835d811d707b3adcd4b2c69d3637ad9fff0.tar.gz |
Add entry for switching MS-Windows keyboard input to Unicode.
Add specific pointer to msdos.c functions that support menus on text terminals.
-rw-r--r-- | etc/TODO | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. 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. + 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. Problem: using this on Windows + 9x/ME requires to install the Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU), + which might not implement all the required functionality that is + available built-in on Windows XP and later. + + One advantage of switching to Unicode is to toss encoded-kbd usage, + which will solve the problem with binding non-ASCII keys with + modifiers. + ** 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 @@ -287,7 +301,7 @@ typically due to pilot errors and should thus be in debug-ignored-errors. what else ? ** Provide real menus on ttys. The MS-DOS implementation can serve as - an example how to do part of this. + 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. |