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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +-*-indented-text-*- + +From the authors of cancan: + + THINGS TO DO + Cancan should know the codes of at least some keys + by looking in the TERMCAP. (especially control keys are trivial!) + + - Run (a)lint! + + - There seems to be problems with running cancan on exotic terminals. + This defeats the very purpose of all the carefully terminal- + independent code with TERMCAP, and is generally embarrassing. + + - more system calls should be checked for EINTR for sysV unices + + - negotiate the telnet BINARY option + + - support the telnet IAC GA command to identify prompts + (But what for? Prompts have to be identified as such in the absence + of GA anyway, and there doesn't seem to be a need for it right + now.) + + - implement reverse-incremental-search (like ^R in GNU Readline) + + KNOWN BUGS + - Deleting more than one character with deletechar() might leave + ugly traces on lines that are entirely deleted. + + - using #hilite with coloured background might have effects beyond the + input line, depending on the terminal (don't do that, then :-) + + FUTURE POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS + Do some more for portability (clean up the terminal mess) + The source should be more modular + Filtering output through shell command (grep etc) + + +THINGS TO DO/PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS on powwow: + - make a better #help + - add termcap `end of bold', `end of blink' etc. + + If you have ideas, suggestions or whatever, e-mail them to me + (max@Linuz.sns.it) and if I find them interesting, I will add them. + Also, I am trying to keep powwow updated with further releases + of cancan. |