X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/ef95e7cfabd10af365fb6a11cf96261595a7a256..f5490ddcb4374e73c07a5729b4cfd7fbffd8b60a:/admin/FOR-RELEASE diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE index feb509aece..a00a200a75 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -5,37 +5,42 @@ Tasks needed before the next release. ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. -** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc. +** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. -Requests to have been sent out on 2006-05-23 (Reiner Steib). +Emacs 22 translators: LANG Translator Status -cs Pavel Janík Can't work on it now. -de Sven Joachim Done -fr Eric Jacoboni Done -pl Włodek Bzyl Done -pt-br Rodrigo Real Done -ru Alex Ott Done -sk Miroslav Vaško No response +cs Pavel Janík +de Sven Joachim +fr Eric Jacoboni +pl Włodek Bzyl +pt-br Rodrigo Real +ru Alex Ott +sk Miroslav Vaško -Reminders sent out on 2006-06-08. +** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. -* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS. +** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. + +* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the attention of Windows users to fixing them. ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind -Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related -to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem. +Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related +problems. ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin. (Did we decide that is unreproducible?) * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT +** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process) +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html + ** undefined reference getopt_long Report by Daniel C. Bastos on bug-gnu-emacs from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as @@ -50,48 +55,144 @@ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html * BUGS -** david.reitter@gmail.com, 27 dec: pos-visible-in-window-p at ellipsis -http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00945.html +** modify-frame-parameters behaviour broken +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00058.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01367.html + +This should move the R frame edge 20pix to the R of the R screen edge. +Instead, it moves the L frame edge 20pix to the R of the L screen edge. +(modify-frame-parameters nil + '((user-position . t) (user-size . t) (left - -20))) + +This should move the L frame edge 20pix to the L of the L screen edge. +Instead, it moves the R frame edge 20pix to the L of the R screen edge. +(modify-frame-parameters nil + '((user-position . t) (user-size . t) (left + -20))) + +It works in Emacs 21. The "+ +" and "- +" forms are OK; ie it is when +the number is -ve that things go wrong. + + +** 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. + +** \\{...} 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 + +** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround + +** 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 ** diff mode change for missing spaces in -u format. -Installed 2008-01-08 fix does not work right. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-11/msg01990.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01114.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 + +** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html + +** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.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 + +** Xresource pane.menubar.*font no longer takes effect +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00314.html +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01683.html + +** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves + * DOCUMENTATION +** 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. +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. 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