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 #+TITLE: Development notes/ideas
 
 * Planned improvements
+  
+** TODO Make URLs the basic address type.
+Currently I waste a lot of effort converting between
+URL and non-URL representations.  This is unnecessary, and
+actually makes lots of things uglier.
 
+For example, the bookmarks file contains addresses in Elpher's
+internal representation, whereas I expect users would prefer
+it contain URLs.
+
+So the idea would be for (elpher-node-address node) to be
+a either a string or a symbol, with symbols used for "special"
+pages (bookmarks, start page, etc).  The getter functions
+`elpher-address-selector' etc will still do what they currently
+do, but will process the URL to do it.
+
+This also means that non-gopher URLs will be explicitly represented
+as such: no more abusing the "h" type for these.
+
+** TODO Allow multiple elpher buffers
+
+   Shouldn't be too hard, just need elpher-current-node to be
+buffer-local and allow various buffer-switching procedures to
+do something sensible.
+   
+** TODO Turn on lexical scoping
+
+   A branch exists for this, but there are some compilation kinks
+to iron out.
+
+** TODO Remove "redraw" command
+This is only necessary for returning from displaying the raw
+server response.  If I can provide a better way of doing that
+then we can get rid of redraw entirely.
+
+** TODO Replace support for user-specified starting pages
+This used to be available, but was removed during a refactor.
+
+** TODO Allow for grouping of bookmarks
+To support this I'd like to add a bookmark page specific
+set of keybindings.  Currently all bindings available on
+the bookmark page are available everywhere else.  But
+expanding and collapsing bookmark groups sounds like it
+might need more specific bindings.
+
+* Current issues
+
+* Completed improvements
+  
 ** DONE Implement support for telnet entries
 
 Similar to http entries, telnet entries will be handled by code
@@ -33,18 +81,10 @@ functions.
   I always update node.parent unless parent is already an ancestor of
   node?)
 
-** TODO Allow multiple elpher buffers
+  
+** DONE Support character encoding diversity
 
-   Shouldn't be too hard, just need elpher-current-node to be
-buffer-local and allow various buffer-switching procedures to
-do something sensible.
-   
-** TODO Turn on lexical scoping
-
-   A branch exists for this, but there are some compilation kinks
-to iron out.
-
-* Current issues
+* Old issues
 
 ** DONE Org mode faces are not present in recent emacs versions
 Even 26.1 doesn't seem to have these.  This means that, for many