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.
27 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
29 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
30 attention of Windows users to fixing them.
32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
33 Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related
36 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
37 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
39 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
41 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
42 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
44 ** undefined reference getopt_long
45 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
46 from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
47 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
52 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
53 It is a dangerous design.
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
56 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
57 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
59 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
60 "can't turn off font-lock"
61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
63 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
66 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
70 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
73 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
76 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
79 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
80 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
82 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not
83 be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
84 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
85 minimized. I don't know what is left to do here.
87 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
89 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
91 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
92 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
93 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
94 when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
96 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
97 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
98 server.el version 1.136.
99 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
101 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
104 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
107 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
110 ** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs
111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.html
113 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
115 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
116 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
117 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
118 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
120 ** unicode-merge issues:
122 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
123 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
124 The temacs sizes are comparable.
125 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
127 ** font-backend problems:
129 *** Xresource pane.menubar.*font no longer takes effect
130 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00314.html
131 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01683.html
133 *** font-lock faces use different font with font-backend
134 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00651.html
136 *** font height problems with font-backend
137 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00620.html
142 ** Document multi-tty features
143 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
144 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
146 ** Document new font backend
148 ** Document XEmbed support
150 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
152 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
153 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
154 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
155 likewise in the respective language.
157 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
158 names of the people who have checked it.
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