1 Tasks needed before the next release.
3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
14 LANG Translator Status
23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
29 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
30 It is a dangerous design.
31 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
33 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
34 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
36 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not
37 be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
38 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
39 minimized. I don't know what is left to do here.
41 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
42 and change key bindings where necessary. The current list of modes:
44 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
46 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
47 (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
49 3. Shell mode binds `M-s' to `comint-next-matching-input'.
50 This key binding can be changed later when we will implement
51 incremental search through the shell history.
53 4. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
54 keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
55 in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
56 because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
58 5. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
59 `log-edit-comment-search-forward'. Perhaps search commands
60 on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
62 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html
67 2007-11-09 Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
70 (ps-do-despool): If ps-lpr-switches is not a list, force it to be one.
72 ** In C, use EMACS_INT for variables and structure members
73 for buffer/string positions. E.g. struct it, struct text_pos.
77 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
79 ** Document new font backend
81 ** Document XEmbed support
83 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
85 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
86 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
87 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
88 likewise in the respective language.
90 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
91 names of the people who have checked it.
94 ----------------------------------
140 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
147 macos.texi -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
148 relevant after the NS merge.
149 maintaining.texi -- cyd
166 windows.texi -- rudalics
169 ** Check the Lisp manual.
212 sequences.texi -- cyd
224 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
226 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).