* Planned improvements
+** 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 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.
+
+** 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 Allow users to access selected and current node details.
-** IN-PROGRESS Implement bookmark system
+** DONE Implement bookmark system
Currently the bookmark page replaces the current page, and it
does so silently (i.e. it doesn't become part of the link hierarchy).
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
+** 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.
- A branch exists for this, but there are some compilation kinks
-to iron out.
+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
+Even 26.1 doesn't seem to have these. This means that, for many
+users, elpher doesn't show any difference between any of the
+item types. Not a major problem at all, but the faces we inherit
+from should definitely be ones which have been present for much
+longer. Perhaps the font lock mode faces are the way to go after
+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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