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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
   6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
   7
   8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
   9
  10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  11
  12 Emacs 22 translators:
  13
  14 LANG    Translator            Status
  15 cs      Pavel Janík
  16 de      Sven Joachim
  17 fr      Eric Jacoboni
  18 pl      Włodek Bzyl
  19 pt-br   Rodrigo Real
  20 ru      Alex Ott
  21 sk      Miroslav Vaško
  22
  23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
  24
  25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together.
  26
  27 * BUGS
  28
  29 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code?  If so, can we get rid of that?
  30 It is a dangerous design.
  31 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html
  32
  33 ** Why were the calls to x_fully_uncatch_errors commented out in eval.c?
  34 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html
  35
  36 ** rms: gnus-dired.el is a mistake.  Those features should not
  37 be part of Gnus.  They should be moved to some other part of Emacs.
  38 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been
  39 minimized.  I don't know what is left to do here.
  40
  41 ** Check for modes which bind M-s that conflicts with a new global binding M-s
  42 and change key bindings where necessary.  The current list of modes:
  43
  44 1. Gnus binds `M-s' to `gnus-summary-search-article-forward'.
  45
  46 2. Minibuffer binds `M-s' to `next-matching-history-element'
  47    (not useful any more since C-s can now search in the history).
  48
  49 3. Shell mode binds `M-s' to `comint-next-matching-input'.
  50    This key binding can be changed later when we will implement
  51    incremental search through the shell history.
  52
  53 4. `center-line' in Text mode was already moved to the text formatting
  54    keymap as `M-o M-s' (thus this binding is not necessary any more
  55    in `nroff-mode-map' too and can be removed now from the nroff mode
  56    because it can now use the global key binding `M-o M-s' `center-line').
  57
  58 5. PCL-CVS binds `M-s' to `cvs-status', and log-edit-mode binds it to
  59    `log-edit-comment-search-forward'.  Perhaps search commands
  60    on the global key binding `M-s' are useless in these modes.
  61
  62 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect
  63 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg02091.html
  64
  65 Fixed by this change?
  66
  67 2007-11-09  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
  68
  69         * ps-print.el: [...]
  70         (ps-do-despool): If ps-lpr-switches is not a list, force it to be one.
  71
  72 ** In C, use EMACS_INT for variables and structure members
  73 for buffer/string positions.  E.g. struct it, struct text_pos.
  74
  75 * DOCUMENTATION
  76
  77 ** Clean up Emacs.app references in code and documentation.
  78
  79 ** Document new font backend
  80
  81 ** Document XEmbed support
  82
  83 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
  84
  85 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
  86 period (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective
  87 language. This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions",
  88 likewise in the respective language.
  89
  90 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
  91 names of the people who have checked it.
  92
  93 SECTION                  READERS
  94 ----------------------------------
  95 etc/TUTORIAL
  96 etc/TUTORIAL.bg
  97 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
  98 etc/TUTORIAL.cs
  99 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner Lemberg
 100 etc/TUTORIAL.eo
 101 etc/TUTORIAL.es
 102 etc/TUTORIAL.fr
 103 etc/TUTORIAL.it
 104 etc/TUTORIAL.ja
 105 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 106 etc/TUTORIAL.nl
 107 etc/TUTORIAL.pl
 108 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR
 109 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 110 etc/TUTORIAL.ru
 111 etc/TUTORIAL.sk
 112 etc/TUTORIAL.sl
 113 etc/TUTORIAL.sv
 114 etc/TUTORIAL.th
 115 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 116
 117 ** Check the manual.
 118
 119 abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
 120 ack.texi          -- rgm
 121 anti.texi
 122 arevert-xtra.texi
 123 basic.texi        -- cyd
 124 buffers.texi      -- cyd
 125 building.texi     -- cyd
 126 calendar.texi     -- rgm
 127 cal-xtra.texi     -- rgm
 128 cmdargs.texi      -- cyd
 129 commands.texi     -- cyd
 130 custom.texi       -- cyd
 131 dired.texi        -- cyd
 132 dired-xtra.texi
 133 display.texi      -- cyd
 134 emacs.texi        -- cyd
 135 emacs-xtra.texi
 136 emerge-xtra.texi
 137 entering.texi     -- cyd
 138 files.texi        -- cyd
 139 fixit.texi        -- cyd
 140 fortran-xtra.texi -- rgm
 141 frames.texi       -- cyd
 142 glossary.texi
 143 help.texi         -- cyd
 144 indent.texi       -- cyd
 145 killing.texi      -- cyd
 146 kmacro.texi       -- cyd
 147 macos.texi     -- davidswelt
 148 maintaining.texi  -- cyd
 149 major.texi        -- cyd
 150 mark.texi         -- cyd
 151 mini.texi         -- cyd
 152 misc.texi         -- cyd
 153 msdog.texi        -- eliz
 154 msdog-xtra.texi   -- eliz
 155 mule.texi         -- cyd
 156 m-x.texi          -- cyd
 157 programs.texi     -- cyd
 158 regs.texi         -- cyd
 159 rmail.texi        -- rgm
 160 screen.texi       -- cyd
 161 search.texi       -- cyd
 162 sending.texi      -- rgm (maybe needs some brief mailclient.el details in
 163                           "Mail Sending" section?)
 164 text.texi         -- cyd
 165 trouble.texi      -- cyd
 166 windows.texi      -- rudalics
 167 xresources.texi   -- cyd
 168
 169 ** Check the Lisp manual.
 170
 171 abbrevs.texi      -- cyd
 172 advice.texi       -- cyd
 173 anti.texi         -- cyd
 174 back.texi
 175 backups.texi      -- cyd
 176 buffers.texi      -- cyd
 177 commands.texi     -- cyd
 178 compile.texi      -- cyd
 179 control.texi      -- cyd
 180 customize.texi    -- cyd
 181 debugging.texi    -- cyd
 182 display.texi      -- cyd
 183 edebug.texi
 184 elisp.texi
 185 errors.texi       -- cyd
 186 eval.texi         -- cyd
 187 files.texi        -- cyd
 188 frames.texi       -- cyd
 189 functions.texi    -- cyd
 190 hash.texi         -- cyd
 191 help.texi         -- cyd
 192 hooks.texi        -- cyd
 193 index.texi
 194 internals.texi    -- cyd
 195 intro.texi        -- cyd
 196 keymaps.texi      -- cyd
 197 lists.texi        -- cyd
 198 loading.texi      -- cyd
 199 locals.texi       -- cyd
 200 macros.texi       -- cyd
 201 maps.texi         -- cyd
 202 markers.texi      -- cyd
 203 minibuf.texi      -- cyd
 204 modes.texi        -- cyd
 205 nonascii.texi     -- cyd
 206 numbers.texi      -- cyd
 207 objects.texi      -- cyd
 208 os.texi           -- cyd
 209 positions.texi    -- cyd
 210 processes.texi
 211 searching.texi    -- cyd
 212 sequences.texi    -- cyd
 213 streams.texi      -- cyd
 214 strings.texi      -- cyd
 215 symbols.texi      -- cyd
 216 syntax.texi       -- cyd
 217 text.texi         -- cyd
 218 tips.texi         -- cyd
 219 variables.texi    -- cyd
 220 windows.texi      -- rudalics
 221
 222 * PLANNED ADDITIONS
 223
 224 ** CEDET (not for 23.1 due to paperwork issues, perhaps for 23.2)
 225 ** js2-mode
 226 ** pov-mode (probably not for Emacs-23: waiting for a Free POV-Ray).
 227 ** gas-mode ?
 228
 229 \f
 230 Local variables:
 231 mode: outline
 232 coding: utf-8
 233 end: