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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * NEW FEATURES
   4
   5 ** Face remapping.
   6
   7 ** Make Rmail find the best version of movemail.
   8 To be done by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@Mirddin.farlep.net>.
   9
  10 ** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail
  11 gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp.
  12 To be done by Andre Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>.
  13
  14 ** define-minor-mode should not put :require into defcustom.
  15 See msg from rms to emacs-devel on 21 Dec.
  16
  17 * FATAL ERRORS
  18
  19 ** Investigate face cache related crash.
  20
  21 Indications: Face cache seems to have been cleared, but
  22 redisplay uses an invalidated face_id with FACE_FROM_ID
  23 which then returns a NULL pointer.  Said to happen with
  24 isearch faces.
  25
  26 ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
  27
  28 ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
  29 invalid pointer from string_free_list.
  30
  31
  32 * LOSSAGE
  33
  34 ** Clean up flymake.el to follow Emacs Lisp conventions.
  35
  36 ** Fix up url-ldap.el.
  37
  38 ** url/*.el has lots of `(declare (special ...))' which
  39 are meaningless.  What's that trying to do?
  40
  41 * BUGS
  42
  43 ** Incomplete overlay mouse-face highlight bug (Ralf Angeli, Oct 18)
  44
  45 ** Ange-ftp should ignore irrelevant IPv6 errors:
  46
  47 Message-Id: <4121-Tue23Mar2004165249+0100-piet@cs.uu.nl>
  48 From: "Piet van Oostrum" <piet@cs.uu.nl>
  49 To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
  50 Subject: Ange-ftp can't deal with IPV6/IPV4 fallback
  51
  52 Symptoms:
  53
  54 C-x C-f /ftp.nluug.nl:/
  55
  56 The problem is that the DNS first gives an IPV6 address. However our
  57 router doesn't do IPV6. Ftp then falls back to IPV4:
  58
  59 ftp> open ftp.nluug.nl
  60 Trying 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36...
  61 ftp: connect to address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36: No route to host
  62 Trying 192.87.102.36...
  63 Connected to ftp.nluug.nl.
  64
  65 Ange-ftp chokes on the `No route to host' message and doesn't look any
  66 further.
  67
  68 I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be
  69 time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent.
  70
  71
  72 * GTK RELATED BUGS
  73
  74 ** Make GTK scrollbars behave like others w.r.t. overscrolling.
  75
  76
  77 * REDISPLAY RELATED BUGS
  78
  79 ** Strange text scrolling with Emacs + GTK
  80
  81 > I could reproduce the problem with the latest CVS.
  82 >
  83 >   % emacs -Q
  84 >   M-x info RET
  85 >   M->
  86 >   C-l
  87 >   C-x ( C-u - 1 C-v C-x )
  88 >   C-x e e e e ...
  89 >
  90 > I see the problem around "CC mode" and "Forms".
  91
  92 It is not specific for the first line of a buffer.
  93
  94 Rather it happens for lines which are indented but the
  95 indentation is controlled by a display property and
  96 the newline is part of that display property -- in
  97 that case, the indentation is not recognized for the
  98 first display line.
  99
 100
 101 ** Avoid unbreakable loops in redisplay.
 102
 103 Redisplay may loop if there is an error in some display property, e.g.
 104      (space 'left-margin)
 105
 106 A fix would be to somehow disable handling of display properties if an error
 107 is encountered.
 108
 109
 110 ** Problem with modeline and window margins:
 111
 112 The mode line's right "box" line is misplaced under the right margin,
 113 rather than at the right window edge.
 114
 115 emacs -Q
 116 (set-window-margins nil 25 25)
 117 C-x 2
 118
 119
 120 ** custom mode-line face makes Emacs freeze up
 121
 122 From: Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>
 123 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:08:56 +0200
 124
 125 1. Start Emacs with -q -no-site-file.
 126
 127 2. Type `M-x customize-face' and at the prompt `mode-line'.
 128
 129 3. In the Custom buffer for mode-line face
 130    a. check width and give it the value `narrow';
 131    b. check height and give it the value 120 in 1/10 pt;
 132    c. check underline and give it the value `on' (or `colored');
 133    d. check overline and give it the value `on' (or `colored').
 134
 135 4. Set for current session.
 136
 137 5. Invoke Ediff on any two files.
 138
 139 6. Now Emacs is frozen and consumes 95-99% of CPU.
 140
 141 The customizations in step 3 appear to be the minimum necessary to
 142 induce this bug.  Leave out any one of them and Ediff runs without a
 143 problem.  Also if the 1/10 point value of height is 130 or greater
 144 there's no bug (with the default font family; with e.g. Helvetica the
 145 bug is induced only by a value of 100 or less).
 146
 147 I've noticed this freeze up only when invoking Ediff.  The only thing
 148 I've been able to do is kill Emacs externally, via top or with kill
 149 when run in gdb, after interrupting.  When the freeze up happens
 150 within a gdb session, there is no automatic debugging feedback.  After
 151 interrupting I can get a backtrace, here's an example:
 152
 153 Update: Maybe only reveals itself when compiled with GTK+
 154
 155
 156 ** Partial highlighting of wrapped overlay
 157
 158 From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de>
 159 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:09:19 +0200
 160
 161 If you put
 162
 163 (let* ((length (+ (- (window-width) (current-column)) 40))
 164        (start (point))
 165        (end (+ (point) length))
 166        (string (make-string length ?x))
 167        ov)
 168   (insert string)
 169   (setq ov (make-overlay start end))
 170   (overlay-put ov 'mouse-face 'highlight)
 171   (overlay-put ov 'display string))
 172
 173 into the *scratch* buffer and type `C-x C-e' with point at the last
 174 parenthesis, you will get a string which does not fit into the line
 175 and has to be wrapped.  If you move over it with your mouse, you
 176 should see that only the part on the second line is being highlighted.
 177 The full string is highlighted only if the 'display property is not
 178 set.
 179
 180
 181
 182 * DOCUMENTATION
 183
 184 ** Document Custom Themes.
 185
 186 ** Finish updating the Emacs Lisp manual.
 187
 188 ** Update the Emacs manual.
 189
 190 *** Update man/info.texi.
 191
 192 *** Update man/ack.texi.
 193
 194 ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.
 195
 196 ** Update AUTHORS.
 197
 198 ** Reorder NEWS entries.
 199
 200 ** Check the Emacs manual.
 201
 202 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 203 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 204 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 205 people who have checked it.
 206
 207
 208 SECTION             READERS
 209 -----------------------------
 210 man/abbrevs.texi
 211 man/anti.texi
 212 man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 213 man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 214 man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 215 man/calendar.texi
 216 man/cmdargs.texi
 217 man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 218 man/custom.texi
 219 man/dired.texi
 220 man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 221 man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 222 man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 223 man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 224 man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 225 man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 226 man/glossary.texi
 227 man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 228 man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 229 man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 230 man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 231 man/macos.texi
 232 man/maintaining.texi
 233 man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 234 man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 235 man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 236 man/misc.texi
 237 man/msdog.texi
 238 man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 239 man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"
 240 man/picture.texi
 241 man/programs.texi
 242 man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 243 man/rmail.texi
 244 man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 245 man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 246 man/sending.texi
 247 man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 248 man/trouble.texi
 249 man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 250 man/xresources.texi
 251
 252 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 253
 254 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
 255 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
 256 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
 257 people who have checked it.
 258
 259 SECTION                  READERS
 260 ----------------------------------
 261 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 262 lispref/advice.texi      Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>
 263 lispref/anti.texi
 264 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 265 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 266 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>
 267 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 268 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 269 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 270 lispref/customize.texi
 271 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>
 272 lispref/display.texi
 273 lispref/edebug.texi
 274 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 275 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 276 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"
 277 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 278 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 279 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 280 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"
 281 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"
 282 lispref/hooks.texi
 283 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 284 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 285 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 286 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"
 287 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 288 lispref/locals.texi
 289 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 290 lispref/maps.texi
 291 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 292 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 293 lispref/modes.texi
 294 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"
 295 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 296 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 297 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"
 298 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 299 lispref/processes.texi
 300 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 301 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 302 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 303 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 304 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 305 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"
 306 lispref/text.texi
 307 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"
 308 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"
 309 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"
 310
 311 \f
 312 Local variables:
 313 mode: outline
 314 end: