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@@ -23,36 +23,31 @@ face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
 
 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
 
-** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.
-
 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
 
 ** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
 Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
 
-* 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
+* BUGS
 
-** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings.
+** JD Smith's 17 Apr 2006 bug report that CVS operations
+get mysterious unreproducible failures.
 
-** Investigate reported crashes related to using an
-invalid pointer from string_free_list.
+** David Hansen's bug report on 16 Apr 2006 about point-entered and
+point-left text properties.
 
-* BUGS
+** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
 
-** circle-printing bug from Stephen Berman; see my 5 Dec message.
+** Cursor position display bug from Yamamoto Mistuharu, 11 Apr 2006.
 
-** Ronan Keryell's Sep 23 bug about "tramp sudo:: and version control on RCS"
+** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
+.emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
+       (setq-default truncate-lines t)
+       (custom-set-variables
+        '(hscroll-margin 20)
+        '(hscroll-step 1)
+       )
 
 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
 
@@ -61,163 +56,22 @@ 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.
 
+In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
+call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
+-1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
+pending connection to accept.
+
+It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
++ FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
+
+
 * DOCUMENTATION
 
 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
 Lisp point of view.
 
-** Fix some of these doc strings by adding \\<keymap-name> where needed.
-
-ada-mode
-array-mode
-artist-mode
-autoarg-mode
-bibtext-mode
-bookmark-bmenu-other-window-with-mouse
-checkdoc-minor-mode
-constrain-to-field
-copy-file
-decipher-mode
-define-generic-mode
-define-ibuffer-op
-diff-mode
-dired-maybe-insert-subdir
-ediff-merge-buffers-with-ancestor
-ediff-merge-directories-with-ancestor
-ediff-merge-directory-revisions-with-ancestor
-edir-merge-revisions-with-ancestor
-edirs-merge-with-ancestor
-edit-picture
-ethio-fidel-to-sera-mail-or-marker
-ethio-sera-to-fidel-mail-or-marker
-face-attribute-specified-or
-face-equal
-flyspell-mode
-hexl-mode
-hi-lock-mode
-ibuffer
-ido-find-file
-internal-lisp-face-equal-p
-isearch-forward
-kmacro-start-macro
-kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter
-make-byte-code
-mh-user-agent-compose
-next-single-char-property-change
-octave-mode
-outline-mode
-pascal-mode
-picture-mode
-previous-single-char-property-change
-python-mode
-read-from-minibuffer
-read-key-sequence
-read-key-sequence-vector
-reftex-index-phrases-mode
-reftex-mode
-rmail-mode
-sh-mode
-shell-script-mode
-solar-equinoxes-solstices
-table-capture
-table-insert
-table-split-cell-horizontally
-view-mode
-w32-shell-dos-semantics
-
 ** 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          done            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.  After each file
-name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
-people who have checked it.
-
-SECTION             READERS
------------------------------
-man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
-man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
-man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
-man/calendar.texi   joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
-man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
-man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
-man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     joakim@verona.se
-man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
-man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
-man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
-man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
-man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
-man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
-man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
-man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
-man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Chong Yidong
-man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
-man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
-man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
-man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
-man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-man/xresources.texi
-
 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
 
 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
@@ -236,7 +90,7 @@ lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
-lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong
+lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"