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This file lists the bugs, feature requests and wishes for future versions
of VM. If you are missing anything please let me know!
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EVERGREENS
There are some things which probably will never be fixed ...
* Update the info file. News should also be there not in the NEWS file?
* Cleanup and reorganize the code.
* Better doc strings: VM has nearly none in the core, just my own extensions
have been documented properly using "M-x checkdoc RET".
* Enable sane extensions and configurations: The default should satisfy most
people, but still allow one to disable what they dislike.
* Integrate more extensions from others into the core.
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BUGS
The bugs which should be fixed before the next release:
* Syncing with Mozilla-Status may corrupt folder
The bugs that remain unsolved:
* Sometimes the cursor is not restored correctly in GNU Emacs when visiting
a folder multiple times during an Emacs session.
* VM is dead slow in marking/deleting/... when a folder has thousands of
messages.
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ROADMAP
The features planed for one of the next releases.
The order hints on the priority, but it is no gurantee.
* Folding of threads in the summary
* Display draft status in the modeline. (partially done)
* Break up the customize stuff into more and smaller sub categories.
* GNU Emacs: does not highlight attachment buttons in compositions
* Merge changes from the Debian package.
* Some of the user defined summary functions should become internal ones.
E.g.: has-attachments, text/html, size, draft, ...
* Better HTML support for both displaying and replying, but probably not for
composition as there is no urge to surrender here! There should be a test
for w3m-emacs, w3, lynx, w3m and the best method should be selected by
default if not configured by the user.
HTML only messages should be converted to mixed/alternative parts by
vm-assimilate-html-message. vm-mime-show-alternatives should probably
be smart enough to display all but the chosen part as button.
"D" should switch between mixed/alternative parts and the undecoded
resp. button representation.
* Click in mailto: link does not work when being used from w3 buffers.
* Virtual selectors matching on specific mime parts, e.g.
(vm-vs-text regexp): matching only text parts and those which can be
converted to text.
(vm-vs-attachment regexp): matching the disposition of parts
* Improved (i)search support: Only text parts and certain headers should be
searched and it should also work for virtual folders. We might utilize
virtual folder selectors here. [1]
* Better IMAP support, i.e. just fetch headers, sync, offline, search. It is
really bad now and thus I do use Thunderbird at work!
* Maildir support: It is a nice format and possibly can fix the problem of
huge mail folders, as VM must not read the whole buffer into memory, just
the index. Also it would allow for using external indexing tools like
http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/ and make folders really virtual.
* Virtual folders everywhere, i.e. only one physical folder. VM should
not read the folder into a buffer, but only query relevant messages from
an maildb-backend.
* S/MIME PKI support.
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REST
The unsorted and remaining ones.
* Marking + Delete is dead slow on folders with many (>2000) messages.
* Shortcut to expunge a single message.
From EU
* Fix bugs when marking threads by "M T". Sometimes it misses some messages,
IMHO ones of broken MUAs not setting the References: header, but hey we
cannot fix them so let's work around them.
* for text/alternative messages, when the plain text part is
displayed internally, [add variable that will allow to] show icon
for the html (or rich text) part, which will allow to delete it
easily using $d. I now have to edit these by hand...
* The binding of mouse-3 overrides the usual usage of mouse-3 which
is very useful. An option to allow binding this menu to another
key (C-mouse-3?) would be great.
* when attachments appear with no empty line separating them from the
text, the attachment icon appears on the same line as the text
before it. this results in poor appearance (I think), Would be
much nicer to show the attachment icon on a separate line, rather
than continued on the last text line as now.
* Typing h when in the presentation window makes vm display only a
single windows with headers rather than adding a headers window to
the presentation mode window. (when in vm, change to presentation
buffer, type C-x1 and then h"
* When reading mail I have the frame divided into three windows:
headers, presentation and BBDB. When replying from the header
window, the reply window just replaces the headers window, leaving
the presentation window and the BBDB window unchanged. The
resulting reply window is too small... would be good to have it
replace all three windows (headers, presentation, BBDB) until the
reply is sent.
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REFERENCES
[1] Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: Re: Improved search for mixed (mime) ascii/html folders?
[2] Message-ID: <1159541555.884682.318660@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.info
Subject: VM feature requests
Date: 29 Sep 2006 07:52:35 -0700
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