Tasks needed before the next release. * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. Emacs 22 translators: LANG Translator Status cs Pavel Janík de Sven Joachim fr Eric Jacoboni pl Włodek Bzyl pt-br Rodrigo Real ru Alex Ott sk Miroslav Vaško ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS ** Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01850.html ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related problems. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-08/msg00439.html ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-08/msg00310.html * BUGS ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that? It is a dangerous design. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode. "can't turn off font-lock" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs This ought to work. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01005.html ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs. rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been minimized. I don't know what is left to do here. ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg00614.html ** multi-tty does not work correctly. If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it broke after that. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with server.el version 1.136. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00214.html ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html ** unicode-merge issues: *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge. The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86. The temacs sizes are comparable. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation. * DOCUMENTATION ** Verify if doc/emacs/macos.texi is still useful, remove it if it is not. ** Document multi-tty features http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html ** Document new font backend ** Document XEmbed support ** Check the Emacs Tutorial. The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise in the respective language. After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the people who have checked it. SECTION READERS ---------------------------------- etc/TUTORIAL etc/TUTORIAL.bg etc/TUTORIAL.cn etc/TUTORIAL.cs etc/TUTORIAL.de etc/TUTORIAL.eo etc/TUTORIAL.es etc/TUTORIAL.fr etc/TUTORIAL.it etc/TUTORIAL.ja etc/TUTORIAL.ko etc/TUTORIAL.nl etc/TUTORIAL.pl etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR etc/TUTORIAL.ro etc/TUTORIAL.ru etc/TUTORIAL.sk etc/TUTORIAL.sl etc/TUTORIAL.sv etc/TUTORIAL.th etc/TUTORIAL.zh ** Check the manual. abbrevs.texi ack.texi anti.texi arevert-xtra.texi basic.texi -- cyd buffers.texi building.texi calendar.texi -- rgm cal-xtra.texi -- rgm cmdargs.texi commands.texi -- cyd custom.texi dired.texi dired-xtra.texi display.texi emacs.texi -- cyd emacs-xtra.texi emerge-xtra.texi entering.texi -- cyd files.texi fixit.texi fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm frames.texi glossary.texi help.texi indent.texi killing.texi -- cyd kmacro.texi macos.texi -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still relevant after the NS merge. maintaining.texi major.texi mark.texi -- cyd mini.texi -- cyd misc.texi msdog.texi msdog-xtra.texi mule.texi m-x.texi programs.texi regs.texi -- cyd rmail.texi screen.texi -- cyd search.texi sending.texi text.texi trouble.texi windows.texi xresources.texi ** Check the Lisp manual. abbrevs.texi advice.texi anti.texi back.texi backups.texi buffers.texi commands.texi compile.texi control.texi customize.texi debugging.texi display.texi edebug.texi elisp.texi errors.texi eval.texi files.texi frames.texi functions.texi hash.texi help.texi hooks.texi index.texi internals.texi intro.texi keymaps.texi lists.texi loading.texi locals.texi macros.texi maps.texi markers.texi minibuf.texi modes.texi nonascii.texi numbers.texi objects.texi os.texi positions.texi processes.texi searching.texi sequences.texi streams.texi strings.texi symbols.texi syntax.texi text.texi tips.texi variables.texi windows.texi * PLANNED ADDITIONS ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2) ** ruby-mode ** js2-mode ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray). 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