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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.
   4
   5 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
   6 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
   7
   8 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
   9   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  10
  11 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  12
  13 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  14 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  15 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  16 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  17 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  18
  19 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
  20 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
  21 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
  22 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
  23 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
  24
  25 * BUGS
  26
  27 * Bugs and feature requests for 22.3 or later
  28
  29 ** python.el changes by Dave Love?
  30
  31 ** etags support for php5
  32 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00131.html
  33
  34 ** Etags completion problem for local tags table
  35 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00103.html
  36
  37 ** M-x grep significantly slower in emacs 22 (compared to emacs 21)
  38 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00155.html
  39
  40 ** Emacs CVS: find-file.el - Line up all columns in output
  41 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00039.html
  42 Do we need papers for Jari Aalto? [no, we have them already]
  43
  44 ** emacs crashs when remote x-windows closes after make-frame-on-display
  45 even when other frame was closed due to assertion in xcd_xlib.c
  46 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00082.html
  47
  48 ** outline does not change heading line endings
  49 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00175.html
  50 If this feature might be easy to implement and safe, we can add it to
  51 Emacs 22 at some point.
  52
  53 ** mouse-2 and calc-yank
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00048.html
  55
  56 ** query-replace / longlines / C-o
  57 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00073.html
  58
  59 ** don't require path hints for *shell*
  60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00046.html
  61
  62 ** Two display bugs involving interactions between after-string and
  63 display properties of adjacent overlays
  64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00119.html
  65 First bug is fixed in trunk: 2008-02-29 checkin to xdisp.c by cyd.
  66
  67 ** overlay face property not used for after-string property
  68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00124.html
  69
  70 ** Should dired-do-search bind tags-loop-revert-buffers automatically?
  71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00059.html
  72
  73 ** Backport find-function-search-for-symbol change to try `.emacs'
  74 Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2.
  75 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00147.html
  76
  77 ** Auto-Save bug when file/directory no longer exists
  78 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-11/msg00058.html
  79 Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2.
  80 2008-02-23 change to fileio.c by cyd.
  81
  82 ** Bug in url-get-authentication
  83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00058.html
  84 Fix is already in the trunk.
  85 2008-01-29 change to url-auth.el by John Wiegley.
  86
  87 ** Shell-script indenting of &&, |
  88 Patch here:
  89 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02814.html
  90 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02939.html
  91
  92 ** Bug in etags ".." code
  93 Patch available at
  94 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00014.html
  95
  96 * DOCUMENTATION
  97
  98 ** Shouldn't directory-abbrev-alist be in Emacs manual?
  99 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00017.html
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 102 Local variables:
 103 mode: outline
 104 coding: utf-8
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