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
50 ** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
51 Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
52 supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
53 alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html
58 ** vc-sccs-diff is broken (see FIXME).
59 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00121.html
61 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
62 It is a dangerous design.
63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
65 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
66 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
68 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
69 "can't turn off font-lock"
70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
72 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
75 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
76 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
79 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
80 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
82 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
85 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
86 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
88 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
89 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
91 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not
92 be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
93 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
94 minimized. I don't know what is left to do here.
96 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
98 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
100 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
101 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
102 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
103 when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
106 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
107 server.el version 1.136.
108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
110 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
113 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
116 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
117 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
119 ** `make bootstrap; make install' dumps another emacs
120 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00311.html
122 ** unicode-merge issues:
124 ** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
125 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
126 The temacs sizes are comparable.
127 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
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 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
137 ** Document multi-tty features
138 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
139 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
141 ** Document new font backend
143 ** Document XEmbed support
145 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
147 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
148 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
149 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
150 likewise in the respective language.
152 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
153 names of the people who have checked it.
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