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 ** Update INSTALL and NEWS to reflect lack of MS-DOS support, if it still
28 isn't working by then.
30 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS
32 ** Emacs crashes on Windows when visiting .tar.gz files. See
34 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-06/msg01850.html
38 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
39 Verify that the new font backend eliminates this and other Cleartype related
42 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
43 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
45 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT
47 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process)
48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html
50 ** undefined reference getopt_long
51 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs
52 from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
53 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html
58 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that?
59 It is a dangerous design.
60 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
62 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
65 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
66 "can't turn off font-lock"
67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html
69 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty
70 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html
72 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
73 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html
74 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html
76 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html
79 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs
82 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
83 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html
85 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands
86 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
88 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake. Those features should not
89 be part of Gnus. They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
90 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
91 minimized. I don't know what is left to do here.
93 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
95 ** timh@insightful.com, 9 Nov: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround
97 ** multi-tty does not work correctly.
98 If the server is started from a tty frame and emacsclient creates an
99 X11 frame, the tty frame gets confused, it thinks it is an X11 frame
100 when trying to do a C-z. This worked with server.el version 1.136, it
102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-12/msg00545.html
103 Also emacsclient does not work on Windows, it also worked with
104 server.el version 1.136.
105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00710.html
107 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented?
108 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html
110 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el?
111 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html
113 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop
114 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg02031.html
116 ** han@mijncomputer.nl, Feb 3: emacsclient misbehaves
118 ** Mouse clicks on the menubar don't currently work with a console
119 Following the direct use of Gpm, the menubar now needs to be
120 considered a special part of the screen in Emacs on a console.
121 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00277.html
123 ** unicode-merge issues:
125 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge.
126 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86.
127 The temacs sizes are comparable.
128 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html
130 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
134 ** Verify if doc/emacs/macos.texi is still useful, remove it if it is not.
136 ** Document multi-tty features
137 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
138 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html
140 ** Document new font backend
142 ** Document XEmbed support
144 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
146 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
147 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
148 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
149 likewise in the respective language.
151 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
152 names of the people who have checked it.
155 ----------------------------------
201 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
208 macos.texi -- contents need to be evaluated and see what is still
209 relevant after the NS merge.
230 ** Check the Lisp manual.
287 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
290 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).