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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 Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related
  34 problems.
  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 ** undefined reference getopt_long
  45 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
  46 from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
  47 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
  48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
  49
  50 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
  51 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
  52 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
  53 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
  54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
  55
  56 * BUGS
  57
  58 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  59 It is a dangerous design.
  60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  61
  62 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  64
  65 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
  66 "can't turn off font-lock"
  67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
  68
  69 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
  70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
  71
  72 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
  73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
  74 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
  75
  76 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
  77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
  78
  79 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
  80 This ought to work.
  81
  82 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
  83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
  84
  85 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
  86 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
  87
  88 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  89 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  90 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  91 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  92
  93 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  94
  95 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
  96
  97 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
  98 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
  99 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
 100 when trying to do a C-z.  This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
 101 broke after that.
 102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
 103 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
 104 server.el version 1.136.
 105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
 106
 107 ** diff mode change for missing spaces in -u format.
 108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01990.html
 109 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01114.html
 110
 111 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
 112 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
 113
 114 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
 115 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
 116
 117 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
 118 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
 119
 120 ** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs
 121 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.html
 122
 123 ** unicode-merge issues:
 124
 125 ** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
 126 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
 127 The temacs sizes are comparable.
 128 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
 129
 130 ** auto-compose-current-font
 131 This has been removed, but is still used in
 132 devan-util.el, mlm-util.el, tibet-util.el, tml-util.el
 133 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00064.html
 134
 135 In general, many of the various *-composition-functions seem to need
 136 updating in terms of the number of arguments they take and their doc
 137 strings.
 138
 139 ** Xresource pane.menubar.*font no longer takes effect
 140 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00314.html
 141 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01683.html
 142
 143 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
 144
 145 * DOCUMENTATION
 146
 147 ** Document multi-tty features
 148 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
 149 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
 150
 151 ** Document new font backend
 152
 153 ** Document XEmbed support
 154
 155 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 156
 157 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
 158 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
 159 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
 160 likewise in the respective language.
 161
 162 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 163 names of the people who have checked it.
 164
 165 SECTION                  READERS
 166 ----------------------------------
 167 etc/TUTORIAL
 168 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
 169 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 170 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
 171 etc/TUTORIAL.de
 172 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 173 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 174 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 175 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 176 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 177 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 178 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 179 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 180 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 181 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 182 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 183 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 184 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 185 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 186 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 187 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 188
 189 \f
 190 Local variables:
 191 mode: outline
 192 coding: utf-8
 193 end: