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Top priority would be the mouse.  We need to get cut&paste working.
(Including extend beyond the visible screen.  I believe I'm sending
the correct mouse events for that, but I haven't tested it.)

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Find a tool to convert the reference doc to html, and just point a
browser at it for the help screen.  Have "novice", "fast lookup"
and an "everything" version.

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Disassociate scrollbar actions from the cursor, i.e. when you
scroll the screen moves but the cursor doesn't.

>> However, it seems to me that the cursor should disappear from
>> the screen as soon as it's no longer positioned on a line that's
>> on the screen.  Does that make sense?  And, if so, how do we
>> make that happen?
>
> I'd add a message:
>       IPO_DISPLAY_CARET( boolean )
> since the caret is also used for the current drawing position, we
> really can't move it 'off the screen'.

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>> BTW, this may be a bug, I can't seem to erase characters in the 
>> colon command line. 
>  
> It's a bug that I reported earlier.  Core is not (correctly) reading the
> tty options for the terminal.  Since we have not bound magic 
> characters (VI_BACKSPACE) to BackSpace and Delete keys, the 
> editing here is counter-intuitive.  I'd guess that you use 
> Delete for Tty Erase.  Try ^H in the colon line and see what happens.

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Implement a "word search" button for the search dialog -- it's not
trivial, the ex/ex_subst.c/re_compile() routine is going to have to
allocate memory for the pattern which isn't going to make it happy.

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/* TODO List:
 *	scrollbars	Need protocol messages that tell us what to display
 *			in the scrollbars.  Suggestion:
 *				scrollbar( bottom, lines, home )
 *				bottom is $
 *				lines is lines shown in the window
 *					(takes wrap into account)
 *				home is the line number ot the top visible line
 *
 *			On the way back send scroll( top )
 *
 *			User should be able to enable/disable bar display
 *
 *			<yuch!> horizontal scrollbar
 *
 *	expose_func
 *	insert/delete	When we have a partially obscured window, we only
 *			refresh a single line after scrolling.  I believe this
 *			is due to the exposure events all showing up after
 *			the scrolling is completed (pipe_input_func does all
 *			of the scrolling and then we get back to XtMainLoop)
 *
 *	split		Ought to be able to put a title on each pane
 *			Need protocol messages to shift focus
 *
 *	bell		user settable visible bell
 *
 *	busy		don't understand the protocol
 *
 *	mouse		need to send IPO_MOVE_CARET( row, column )
 *			(note that screen code does not know about tabs or
 *			line wraps)
 *			Connect to window manager cut buffer
 *			need to send IPO_EXTEND_SELECT( r1, c1, r2, c1 )
 *			otherwise core and screen duplicate selection logic
 *			Need to determine correct screen for event.  Not
 *			needed until split is implemented.
 *
 *	arrow keys	need to define a protocol.  I can easily send
 *			the vt100 sequences (and currently do).
 *			In general, we need to define what special keys
 *			do (for example PageUp) and what happens when we
 *			are in Insert mode.
 *
 *			Suggestion: IPO_COMMAND( string ).  vi core can
 *			take it as a command even when in insert mode.
 *
 *	icon		Is currently B&W.  To get a color icon, would
 *			require a lot of work or that bostic pick up
 *			the xpm library.
 */