X-Git-Url: http://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/65ea79492334e2ef7b5b4e0d23b6f68ba2f4d0bb..351c9889873cb0e8c4e43bc51f9a5b36b81ac9a6:/admin/FOR-RELEASE diff --git a/admin/FOR-RELEASE b/admin/FOR-RELEASE dissimilarity index 84% index e5e719f903..4fd9caa721 100644 --- a/admin/FOR-RELEASE +++ b/admin/FOR-RELEASE @@ -1,373 +1,253 @@ -Tasks needed before the next release. - -* NEW FEATURES - -** Test the mbox branch of Rmail. - -** Install the mbox branch of Rmail. - -** Face remapping. - -** Let mouse-1 follow links. - - -* FATAL ERRORS - -** Investigate face cache related crash. - -Indications: Face cache seems to have been cleared, but -redisplay uses an invalidated face_id with FACE_FROM_ID -which then returns a NULL pointer. Said to happen with -isearch faces. - -** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings. - -** Investigate reported crashes related to using an -invalid pointer from string_free_list. - - -* LOSSAGE - -** Clean up flymake.el to follow Emacs Lisp conventions. - - -* GTK RELATED BUGS - -** Make GTK scrollbars behave like others w.r.t. overscrolling. - - -* REDISPLAY RELATED BUGS - -** Avoid unbreakable loops in redisplay. - -Redisplay may loop if there is an error in some display property, e.g. - (space 'left-margin) - -A fix would be to somehow disable handling of display properties if an error -is encountered. - -** Problem with cursor border around images and window-margins: - -The border around the image when the cursor is on the image -flows into the right fringe and margin. - - (progn - (auto-image-file-mode 1) - (find-file (concat data-directory "splash.xpm")) - (set-window-margins (selected-window) 25 25)) - - -** Problem with modeline and window margins: - -The mode line's right "box" line is misplaced under the right margin, -rather than at the right window edge. - -emacs -Q -(set-window-margins nil 25 25) -C-x 2 - - -** custom mode-line face makes Emacs freeze up - -From: Stephen Berman -Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:08:56 +0200 - -1. Start Emacs with -q -no-site-file. - -2. Type `M-x customize-face' and at the prompt `mode-line'. - -3. In the Custom buffer for mode-line face - a. check width and give it the value `narrow'; - b. check height and give it the value 120 in 1/10 pt; - c. check underline and give it the value `on' (or `colored'); - d. check overline and give it the value `on' (or `colored'). - -4. Set for current session. - -5. Invoke Ediff on any two files. - -6. Now Emacs is frozen and consumes 95-99% of CPU. - -The customizations in step 3 appear to be the minimum necessary to -induce this bug. Leave out any one of them and Ediff runs without a -problem. Also if the 1/10 point value of height is 130 or greater -there's no bug (with the default font family; with e.g. Helvetica the -bug is induced only by a value of 100 or less). - -I've noticed this freeze up only when invoking Ediff. The only thing -I've been able to do is kill Emacs externally, via top or with kill -when run in gdb, after interrupting. When the freeze up happens -within a gdb session, there is no automatic debugging feedback. After -interrupting I can get a backtrace, here's an example: - -Update: Maybe only reveals itself when compiled with GTK+ - - -** Mouse-face overlay bleeds into header line - -From: Stephen Berman -Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:11:01 +0200 - -Mouse-face overlays bleed into the header line when the beginning of -the overlay is above (point-min). To reproduce: - -1. Start Emacs with -q -no-site-file. - -2. In *scratch* eval (setq ov (make-overlay 66 92)), (overlay-put ov -'mouse-face 'highlight), and (setq header-line-format "test"). - -3. Drag the mouse over the string "evaluation.\n;; If you want" and -notice the highlighting of only this string. - -4. Now click on the down arrow in the scroll bar until the line -beginning ";; If you want" is directly below the header line. - -5. Drag the mouse over ";; If you want" and notice that not only it -but also the header line are highlighted. - - -** scroll-preserve-screen-position doesn't work with a header-line-format - -From: jbyler+emacs-lists@anon41.eml.cc -Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:10:14 -0400 - -There seems to be an off-by-one error triggered by using a header line -together with scroll-preserve-screen-position. The symptom: instead of -staying in the same position on the screen when scrolling, the cursor -moves one screen line down each time the buffer is scrolled. Put -another way: repeatedly typing C-v M-v or using a mouse scroll wheel to -scroll up and down causes the cursor to migrate slowly down the screen -instead of staying put as it should. - -To reproduce: - -emacs -q --no-site-file -(setq scroll-preserve-screen-position t) -(setq header-line-format "") -C-v M-v C-v M-v C-v M-v etc. - - -** Clicking on partially visible lines fails - -From: David Kastrup -Date: 27 Apr 2004 16:42:58 +0200 - -I had gnus display a mouse-highlighted line (a URL from browse-url) -partially at the bottom of its window. If I click with middle mouse -key on it, the window gets recentered while I hold the mouse key -pressed. If I release it, the window returns into its old position -(cursor in top row) and nothing happens, presumably because the click -was not registered on the line itself, but on the magically -recentered version. - -That is a nuisance. Recentering of even partially visible click -targets should only happen if window-point moves there, but not at -the time of the click. From the moment I hold down a key until it -gets released, the displayed window portion should not change, with -the sole exception of scrolling when dragging at the edge of the -screen. - - -** Can't drag modeline when mouse-autoselect-window is set - -From: Klaus Zeitler -Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:14:49 +0200 - -1. start emacs -q --no-site-file -2. set variable mouse-autoselect-window to t -3. split-window-vertically - -now I can drag the modeline only upwards but not downwards - - -** line-spacing and (recenter -1) - -From: SAITO Takuya -Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:07:57 +0900 (JST) - -(recenter -1) does not show point at the bottom of the window -if line-spacing is set to positive integer. - -Start emacs -Q, and evaluate below: - -(progn - (setq line-spacing 1) - (dotimes (i (window-height)) - (insert "\n" (int-to-string i))) - (recenter -1)) - -Then, point is displayed at the center of the window. -But point should be displayed at the bottom of the window like Emacs-21.3. - - -** line-spacing and garbage in fringe - -From: SAITO Takuya -Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:08:05 +0900 (JST) - -Start emacs -Q and evaluate below with C-xC-e: - -(let ((lines 2) - (spacing 1)) - (setq line-spacing spacing - indicate-buffer-boundaries t) - (insert (make-string (window-height) ?\n)) - (goto-char (point-min)) - (message (make-string (* (window-width) lines) ?.)) - (scroll-up 1)) - -then, garbage is displayed in right fringe. - -Above code reproduces this bug with -(frame-parameter nil 'font) -=> "-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1" - -If you use different font, you may need different value of -`lines' and/or `spacing'. - - -** line-spacing and Electric-pop-up-window - -From: SAITO Takuya -Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:08:10 +0900 (JST) - -Electric-pop-up-window does not work well -if truncate long lines disabled and/or -`line-spacing' is set to positive integer. - -For example, start emacs -Q --line-spacing 1, and type M-` . -Then, the last line of *Completions* buffer is not visible. - -fit-window-to-buffer works well for me, so I guess -Electric-pop-up-window can use it. - - -* DOCUMENTATION - -** Finish updating the Emacs Lisp manual. - -** Update the Emacs manual. - -*** Update man/info.texi. - -*** Update man/ack.texi. - -** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files. - -** Update AUTHORS. - -** Reorder NEWS entries. - -** Check the Emacs manual. - -Each manual section should be proof-read 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 -man/anti.texi -man/basic.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/building.texi "Ted Zlatanov" -man/calendar.texi -man/cmdargs.texi -man/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/custom.texi -man/dired.texi -man/display.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/emacs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/entering.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/fixit.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/glossary.texi -man/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/indent.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/killing.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/kmacro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/macos.texi -man/maintaining.texi -man/major.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/mark.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/mini.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/misc.texi -man/msdog.texi -man/mule.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/m-x.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/picture.texi -man/programs.texi -man/regs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/rmail.texi -man/screen.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/search.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/sending.texi -man/text.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/trouble.texi -man/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -man/xresources.texi - -** Check the Emacs Lisp manual. - -Each manual section should be proof-read 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 ----------------------------------- -lispref/abbrevs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/advice.texi -lispref/anti.texi -lispref/backups.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/calendar.texi -lispref/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/compile.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/control.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/customize.texi -lispref/debugging.texi -lispref/display.texi -lispref/edebug.texi -lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/errors.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/eval.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/functions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/hash.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/hooks.texi -lispref/internals.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/intro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/keymaps.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/lists.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/loading.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/locals.texi -lispref/macros.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/maps.texi -lispref/markers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/minibuf.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/modes.texi -lispref/nonascii.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/numbers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/objects.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/os.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/positions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/processes.texi -lispref/searching.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/sequences.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/streams.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/strings.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/symbols.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/syntax.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/text.texi -lispref/tips.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/variables.texi "Luc Teirlinck" -lispref/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" - - -Local variables: -mode: outline -end: +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. + +* NEW FEATURES + +** Face remapping. + +** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail +gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp. +To be done by Andre Spiegel . + +** define-minor-mode should not put :require into defcustom. +See msg from rms to emacs-devel on 21 Dec. + +** Update Speedbar. + +** Enhance scroll-bar to handle tall line (similar to line-move). + +** Adapt mouse-sel-mode to mouse-1-click-follows-link. + + +* FATAL ERRORS + +** Make unexec handle memory mapping policy of the latest versions of Linux. + +** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings. + +** Investigate reported crashes related to using an +invalid pointer from string_free_list. + + +* LOSSAGE + +** Clean up flymake.el to follow Emacs Lisp conventions. + +* BUGS + +** Ange-ftp should ignore irrelevant IPv6 errors: + +Message-Id: <4121-Tue23Mar2004165249+0100-piet@cs.uu.nl> +From: "Piet van Oostrum" +To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org +Subject: Ange-ftp can't deal with IPV6/IPV4 fallback + +Symptoms: + +C-x C-f /ftp.nluug.nl:/ + +The problem is that the DNS first gives an IPV6 address. However our +router doesn't do IPV6. Ftp then falls back to IPV4: + +ftp> open ftp.nluug.nl +Trying 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36... +ftp: connect to address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36: No route to host +Trying 192.87.102.36... +Connected to ftp.nluug.nl. + +Ange-ftp chokes on the `No route to host' message and doesn't look any +further. + +I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be +time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent. + + +* GTK RELATED BUGS + +** Make GTK scrollbars behave like others w.r.t. overscrolling. + + +* REDISPLAY RELATED BUGS + +** Avoid unbreakable loops in redisplay. + +Redisplay may loop if there is an error in some display property, e.g. + (space 'left-margin) + +A fix would be to somehow disable handling of display properties if an error +is encountered. + + +* DOCUMENTATION + +** Document Custom Themes. + +** Finish updating the Emacs Lisp manual. + +** Update the Emacs manual. + +*** Update man/info.texi. + +*** Update man/ack.texi. + +** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files. + +** Update AUTHORS. + +** Reorder NEWS entries. + +** 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 +man/basic.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +man/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +man/building.texi "Ted Zlatanov" +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 +man/dired.texi Chong Yidong joakim@verona.se +man/display.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +man/emacs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" +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 +man/maintaining.texi +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" +man/m-x.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +man/picture.texi Joakim Verona 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 +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 +---------------------------------- +lispref/abbrevs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/advice.texi joakim@verona.se Chong Yidong +lispref/anti.texi +lispref/backups.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/calendar.texi Joakim Verona 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/debugging.texi Joakim Verona Lute Kamstra +lispref/display.texi Chong Yidong +lispref/edebug.texi Chong Yidong +lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck" +lispref/errors.texi "Luc Teirlinck" +lispref/eval.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/functions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/hash.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/hooks.texi Lute Kamstra +lispref/internals.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/intro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" +lispref/keymaps.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/lists.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/loading.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/locals.texi +lispref/macros.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/maps.texi +lispref/markers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/minibuf.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/modes.texi Chong Yidong +lispref/nonascii.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/numbers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/objects.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/os.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/positions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/processes.texi Chong Yidong +lispref/searching.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/sequences.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/streams.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/strings.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/symbols.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/syntax.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/text.texi Chong Yidong +lispref/tips.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/variables.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong +lispref/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong + +** Check the Emacs Tutorial. + +The first line of every tutorial must begin with a sentence 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 Thien-Thi Nguyen +etc/TUTORIAL.it Thien-Thi Nguyen +etc/TUTORIAL.ja Kenichi Handa +etc/TUTORIAL.ko +etc/TUTORIAL.nl Lute Kamstra +etc/TUTORIAL.pl +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: