here is a partial wishlist; if they seem mundane (because they don't involve radical new extensions, like menus or emacs controls) i'm sorry. i think these have to be taken care in the near future. any help is appreciated. i don't need any help in the wily core (same for all versions) but i can use help for libXg (either the buried version or the 9libs version). i will take bugfixes and other cleanups to any part of wily+wily9libs+9libs. * evaluation of acme (plan9/4th ed) vs wily feature set for greater compatibility between the two, anything from fonts, color, decoration spacing and sizes to window placement heuristics. [I would like all plan9 users to feel at home using wily. they have been endlessly complaining about being close yet different. i have another list for that] some of this is being done (eg. edit) but i need to take a closer look. some of this may go into properties. * determination and fix of capslock bug. i suspect a subtle semantics bug somewhere in the libXg, but hard to tell. bug is manifested on anything that uses libXg on *bsd/linux platforms vis a vis xfree86. does not show on solaris * libXg et al. changes for properly anti-aliased fonts, in keeping with plan9 implementation as much as possible. must run on solaris, linux and *bsd with minimal number of extra packages. * libXg/libframe/et al. code cleanup. * adopting newly released plan9 libraries (eg. libfmt) where possible, *except* the regex library. [this regexp library is special, see below] * tutorial update, esp. add sam ranges and regexp, vis a vis :/foo for forward search, :-/foo for backward search etc. * a review of the rpc mechanism * wily tools cleanup and re-packaging. some of this is already done, but more the merrier. * test and update the tcl and python libmsg interfaces, add example code. maybe add perl. * a new wily logo oz --- www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz | york u. computer science take the long short cut. -- animation rule of thumb (richard williams)