scsh-0.5/doc/scsh-manual/todo.tex

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\chapter{Todo}

There are always many, many improvements and extensions that could be
made to scsh.
We invite interested hackers to do any of them, and send us the code;
we'll put you on the team.
Visit the Scheme Underground Web page for more information on good hacks at
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Scsh is a tool that lets you write fun programs that do real things in
an elegant language; go wild.

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\item Threads. 
\item An X gui interface. (Needs threads.)
\item A better C function/data-structure interface. This is not easy.
\item More network protocols. Telnet and ftp would be the most important.
\item Port Edwin, and emacs text editor written in MIT Scheme, to scsh.
      Combine it with scsh's OS interfaces to make a visual shell.
\item Manual hacking.
\begin{itemize}
\item The {\LaTeX} hackery needs yet another serious pass. Most importantly,
      long procedure ``declarations'' need to be  broken across two lines.

\item Soup up the markup processor, and redo manual in markup. Generate
      {\LaTeX}, HTML, and info versions. Alternatively, persuade some kind
      soul to hand-port manual to HTML or info.
\end{itemize}

\item Job control, after \ex{jcontrol.scm}

\item Better static heap linker.

\item Gnu readline lib.

\end{itemize}