Tasks needed before the next release. * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE ** `undo-ask-before-discard', currently set to t for debugging purposes has to be set to nil: when t, it can leak memory and cause other problems. ** Update release dates of manuals. ** Spell check the manuals. ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals. ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other face name prefixes should be in it for good results. ** Update AUTHORS. ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. ** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF. * NEW FEATURES ** Rework how fringe bitmaps are defined and used. Currently, bitmap usage and bitmap appearence are "mixed-up" in a one-level representation. It would be cleaner to split the representation into a two-level model where first level maps bitmap usage to a bitmap name, and second level maps bitmap name to a bitmap appearence. [Assigned to KFS] * FATAL ERRORS ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings. ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an invalid pointer from string_free_list. * BUGS ** Fix window resizing bug: C-x 2, C-x 3, C-x 2. Now try to move the bottom of the second window to the left. ** Fix completion highlighting bug in partial completion mode. ** Clean up the confusion about what `unspecified' means in the face defaults for new frames. ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows. TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume excesive CPU on some Windows environments. Usages of 50% and 100% CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations. Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c. * DOCUMENTATION ** Check man/info.texi. ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files. Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution you're going to handle. DIRECTORY STATUS IN CHARGE --------- ------ --------- etc (and subdirs) done Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org)) leim working Kenichi Handa lib-src done ttn lisp done ttn lisp/calc done ttn lisp/calendar working Glenn Morris lisp/emacs-lisp done ttn lisp/emulation done ttn lisp/eshell done ttn lisp/gnus done ttn lisp/international done Kenichi Handa lisp/language done Kenichi Handa lisp/mail done ttn lisp/mh-e done Bill Wohler lisp/net done ttn lisp/obsolete done ttn lisp/play done ttn lisp/progmodes done Nick Roberts lisp/term done ttn lisp/textmodes done ttn lisp/url done ttn lispintro done ttn lispref done ttn lwlib done ttn m4 done ttn mac (and subdirs) done ttn man done ttn msdos done ttn nt (and subdirs) done ttn oldXMenu done ttn src (and subdirs) done ttn vms done ttn ** Check the Emacs manual. Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness regarding recent changes by at least two people. 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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 rms etc/TUTORIAL.bg Ognyan Kulev etc/TUTORIAL.cn etc/TUTORIAL.cs Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.de Werner LEMBERG etc/TUTORIAL.es Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.fr ttn etc/TUTORIAL.it ttn etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa etc/TUTORIAL.ko etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra etc/TUTORIAL.pl Slawomir Nowaczyk etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR Marcelo Toledo etc/TUTORIAL.ro etc/TUTORIAL.ru Alex Ott etc/TUTORIAL.sk Pavel Janík etc/TUTORIAL.sl Primoz PETERLIN etc/TUTORIAL.sv Mats Lidell etc/TUTORIAL.th Virach Sornlertlamvanich etc/TUTORIAL.zh Local variables: mode: outline end: