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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   7
   8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
   9
  10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  11
  12 Emacs 22 translators:
  13
  14 LANG    Translator            Status
  15 cs      Pavel Janík
  16 de      Sven Joachim
  17 fr      Eric Jacoboni
  18 pl      Włodek Bzyl
  19 pt-br   Rodrigo Real
  20 ru      Alex Ott
  21 sk      Miroslav Vaško
  22
  23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
  24
  25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
  26
  27 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
  28
  29 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
  30 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
  31
  32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
  33 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
  34 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
  35
  36 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  37   (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
  38
  39 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
  40
  41 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
  42 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
  43
  44 * BUGS
  45
  46 ** Document the changes introduced by multi-tty
  47 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
  49
  50 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  51 It is a dangerous design.
  52 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  53
  54 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  55 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  56
  57 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
  58 "can't turn off font-lock"
  59 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
  60
  61 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
  62 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
  63
  64 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
  65 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
  66 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
  67
  68 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
  69 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
  70
  71 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
  72 This ought to work.
  73
  74 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
  75 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
  76
  77 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
  78 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
  79
  80 ** tromey@redhat.com: two View-mode "quit" bugs
  81 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-07/msg00103.html
  82
  83 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  84 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  85
  86 ** C-x v v no longer works the way it used to
  87 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00785.html
  88
  89 * DOCUMENTATION
  90
  91 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  92
  93 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  94 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  95 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
  96 likewise in the respective language.
  97
  98 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  99 names of the people who have checked it.
 100
 101 SECTION                  READERS
 102 ----------------------------------
 103 etc/TUTORIAL
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 115 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 116 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 117 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 118 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 119 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 120 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 121 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 122 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 123 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 124
 125 \f
 126 Local variables:
 127 mode: outline
 128 coding: utf-8
 129 end: