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(readdir): If FindFirstFile/FindNextFile return in cFileName a file name that includes `?' characters, use the 8+3 alias in cAlternateFileName instead.

Tasks needed before the next release.

* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS.

These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the
attention of Windows users to fixing them.

** [e-mail] 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
  (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)

* BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT

** undefined reference getopt_long
Report by Daniel C. Bastos <[e-mail]> on bug-gnu-emacs
from 2007-08-27.  Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as
of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html

** emacs-22.1 with GTK problems (with patches)
Only outstanding issue seems to be whether Solaris 2.6 GTK can be
supported in the absence of recursive mutexes, via a change to
alloc.c, or whether configure should abort.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00055.html

* BUGS

* Bugs and feature requests for 22.3 or later

** python.el changes by Dave Love?

** etags support for php5
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00131.html

** Etags completion problem for local tags table
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-02/msg00103.html

** M-x grep significantly slower in emacs 22 (compared to emacs 21)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00155.html

** Emacs CVS: find-file.el - Line up all columns in output
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00039.html
Do we need papers for Jari Aalto? [no, we have them already]

** emacs crashs when remote x-windows closes after make-frame-on-display
even when other frame was closed due to assertion in xcd_xlib.c
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00082.html

** outline does not change heading line endings
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00175.html
If this feature might be easy to implement and safe, we can add it to
Emacs 22 at some point.

** mouse-2 and calc-yank
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00048.html

** query-replace / longlines / C-o
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00073.html

** don't require path hints for *shell*
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00046.html

** Two display bugs involving interactions between after-string and
display properties of adjacent overlays
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00119.html
First bug is fixed in trunk: 2008-02-29 checkin to xdisp.c by cyd.

** overlay face property not used for after-string property
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00124.html

** Should dired-do-search bind tags-loop-revert-buffers automatically?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg00059.html

** Backport find-function-search-for-symbol change to try `.emacs'
Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-01/msg00147.html

** Auto-Save bug when file/directory no longer exists
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-11/msg00058.html
Fix is already in the trunk, and can wait till after 22.2.
2008-02-23 change to fileio.c by cyd.

** Bug in url-get-authentication
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-12/msg00058.html
Fix is already in the trunk.
2008-01-29 change to url-auth.el by John Wiegley.

** Shell-script indenting of &&, |
Patch here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02814.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg02939.html

** Bug in etags ".." code
Patch available at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-03/msg00014.html

** slow editing in .h files
Patch available at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-03/msg00658.html

* WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS (for 22.3 or later).

** Description in the "Open with..." dialog should tell about the purpose
of the binary (or at least display name of the executable).
http://thread.gmane.org/[e-mail]

** `locate' and drive letter ("C:") on Windows
For a recipe to reproduce the problem on GNU/Linux, see 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/88971/focus=89106>

* DOCUMENTATION

** Shouldn't directory-abbrev-alist be in Emacs manual?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-10/msg00017.html


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