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   1 Tasks needed before the next release.
   2
   3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
   4
   5 ** `undo-ask-before-discard', currently set to t for debugging purposes
   6 has to be set to nil: when t, it can leak memory and cause other problems.
   7
   8 ** Update release dates of manuals.
   9
  10 ** Spell check the manuals.
  11
  12 ** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.
  13
  14 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
  15 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
  16
  17 ** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
  18 face name prefixes should be in it for good results.
  19
  20 ** Update AUTHORS.
  21
  22 ** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.
  23
  24 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.
  25
  26 ** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
  27 and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.
  28
  29 ** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
  30 Assigned to Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>.
  31
  32 * BUGS
  33
  34 ** JD Smith's 17 Apr 2006 bug report that CVS operations
  35 get mysterious unreproducible failures.
  36
  37 ** David Hansen's bug report on 16 Apr 2006 about point-entered and
  38 point-left text properties.
  39
  40 ** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?
  41
  42 ** Cursor position display bug from Yamamoto Mistuharu, 11 Apr 2006.
  43
  44 ** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
  45 .emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
  46         (setq-default truncate-lines t)
  47         (custom-set-variables
  48          '(hscroll-margin 20)
  49          '(hscroll-step 1)
  50         )
  51
  52 ** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.
  53
  54 TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
  55 excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
  56 CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
  57 Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.
  58
  59 In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
  60 call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
  61 -1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
  62 pending connection to accept.
  63
  64 It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
  65 + FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...
  66
  67
  68 * DOCUMENTATION
  69
  70 ** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
  71 Lisp point of view.
  72
  73 ** Check man/info.texi.
  74
  75 ** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.
  76
  77 Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
  78 regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
  79 name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
  80 people who have checked it.
  81
  82 SECTION                  READERS
  83 ----------------------------------
  84 lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  85 lispref/advice.texi      joakim@verona.se  Chong Yidong
  86 lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
  87 lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  88 lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  89 lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>  Chong Yidong
  90 lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  91 lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  92 lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  93 lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  94 lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <joakim@verona.se>   Lute Kamstra
  95 lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
  96 lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
  97 lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
  98 lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
  99 lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 100 lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 101 lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 102 lispref/functions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 103 lispref/hash.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 104 lispref/help.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 105 lispref/hooks.texi       Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
 106 lispref/internals.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 107 lispref/intro.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
 108 lispref/keymaps.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 109 lispref/lists.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 110 lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 111 lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
 112 lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 113 lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
 114 lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 115 lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 116 lispref/modes.texi       Chong Yidong
 117 lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 118 lispref/numbers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 119 lispref/objects.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 120 lispref/os.texi          "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 121 lispref/positions.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 122 lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong      ttn
 123 lispref/searching.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 124 lispref/sequences.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 125 lispref/streams.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 126 lispref/strings.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 127 lispref/symbols.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 128 lispref/syntax.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 129 lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
 130 lispref/tips.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 131 lispref/variables.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 132 lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
 133
 134 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
 135
 136 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
 137 (".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
 138 This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
 139 in the respective language.
 140
 141 After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
 142 names of the people who have checked it.
 143
 144 SECTION                  READERS
 145 ----------------------------------
 146 etc/TUTORIAL             rms
 147 etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
 148 etc/TUTORIAL.cn
 149 etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 150 etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
 151 etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
 152 etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
 153 etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
 154 etc/TUTORIAL.ja          Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
 155 etc/TUTORIAL.ko
 156 etc/TUTORIAL.nl          Lute Kamstra
 157 etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <slawek@cs.lth.se>
 158 etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
 159 etc/TUTORIAL.ro
 160 etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <alexott@gmail.com>
 161 etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 162 etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
 163 etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <matsl@contactor.se>
 164 etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <virach@tcllab.org>
 165 etc/TUTORIAL.zh
 166
 167 \f
 168 Local variables:
 169 mode: outline
 170 end: