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1 Tasks needed before the next release.
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3 * TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE
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6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.
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8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/.
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14 LANG Translator Status
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15 cs Pavel Janík
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16 de Sven Joachim
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18 pl Włodek Bzyl
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19 pt-br Rodrigo Real
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20 ru Alex Ott
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21 sk Miroslav Vaško
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23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS.
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32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind
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33 Windows only bug. Bug appears only when Cleartype enabled, probably related
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34 to the hack introduced on 2005-07-01 to fix some other Cleartype problem.
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36 ** henman@it.to-be.co.jp 09 Aug 2006: ispell.el problem on Cygwin.
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37 (Did we decide that is unreproducible?)
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46 ** Document the changes introduced by multi-tty
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47 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01639.html
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51 It is a dangerous design.
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57 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode.
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58 "can't turn off font-lock"
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64 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty
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68 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop.
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74 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries
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78 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html
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80 ** tromey@redhat.com: two View-mode "quit" bugs
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86 ** C-x v v no longer works the way it used to
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91 ** Check the Emacs Tutorial.
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93 The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a
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99 names of the people who have checked it.
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126 Local variables:
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127 mode: outline
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128 coding: utf-8
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