#+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
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
** 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.
+
+** IN-PROGRESS Implement Gemini support [88%]
+
+Here is the checklist of features required before release:
+- [X] basic genimi transactions
+- [ ] gemini transactions requiring client certificates
+- [X] gemini input handling
+- [X] gemini map files (text/gemini)
+- [X] Support for plain text responses (text/*)
+- [X] Support for image responses (text/image)
+- [X] Support for mime-specified character encodeing
+- [X] Saving responses to disk
+- [X] Viewing raw responses
+
+The last few will be made infinitely easier if we factor the
+gopher "getter" code differently.
+
* Current issues
* Completed improvements
+** DONE Turn on lexical scoping
+
+ A branch exists for this, but there are some compilation kinks
+to iron out.
+
+
** DONE Implement support for telnet entries
Similar to http entries, telnet entries will be handled by code
** DONE Support character encoding diversity
+** DONE 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.
+
* Old issues
** DONE Org mode faces are not present in recent emacs versions
all.
Update: changed all default faces to inherit from font-lock and basic faces.
+
+** DONE URL-centric addressing breaks bookmark file compatibility
+
+Need a way to allow people to rescue their old bookmark files
+following this update.
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