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