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(finder-compile-keywords): Tweak whitespace in output.
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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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5 ** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals; |
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6 make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted. |
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85055 | 8 ** Regenerate the pdf versions of the reference cards in etc/refcards/. |
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10 ** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them. |
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14 LANG Translator Status |
85055 | 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 | |
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23 ** Remove temporary +++/--- lines in NEWS. |
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25 ** Try to reorder NEWS: most important things first, related items together. |
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85215 | 27 * WINDOWS SUPPORT BUGS |
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29 These don't need to be fixed before a release, but we call the |
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32 ** Drew Adams 12 Aug bug rpt: overlay display artifact: trace left behind |
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34 problems. |
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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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78912 | 39 * BUGS WAITING FOR MORE USER INPUT |
40 | |
85215 | 41 ** raman@users.sf.net, sep 7: Emacs 23.0.50: Segfaults in alloc.c (batch process) |
42 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg00690.html | |
78967 | 43 |
78912 | 44 ** undefined reference getopt_long |
45 Report by Daniel C. Bastos <dbast0s@yahoo.com.br> on bug-gnu-emacs | |
46 from 2007-08-27. Impossible to procede without more input from OP (as | |
47 of 20070912, emails are bouncing) or someone else who can reproduce this. | |
48 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01497.html | |
49 | |
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84738 | 52 ** Does deleting frames run Lisp code? If so, can we get rid of that? |
53 It is a dangerous design. | |
54 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01330.html | |
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84946 | 57 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01987.html |
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84734 | 59 ** grep et al should use font-lock to do highlighting, so that they respect font-lock-mode. |
60 "can't turn off font-lock" | |
61 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg00548.html | |
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63 ** mah@everybody.org, Sep 18: erc causes emacs to hang with multi-tty |
84946 | 64 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01765.html |
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66 ** jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk, Sep 18: before-string property has no effect if display property is empty |
84946 | 67 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2007-09/msg00094.html |
68 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01816.html | |
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70 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, Sep 24: TLS infinite loop. |
84946 | 71 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-09/msg01720.html |
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73 ** herring@lanl.gov: find-func: can no longer find adviced subrs |
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85055 | 76 ** \\{...} produces duplicate entries |
77 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg00209.html | |
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85055 | 79 ** menu indications of key bindings for remapped commands |
80 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-05/msg01339.html | |
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84 rsteib: Gnus dependencies in `gnus-dired.el' (and `mailcap.el') have been |
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87 ** sdl.web@gmail.com, 30 Oct: ps-lpr-switches has no effect |
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91685 | 101 ** skeleton bug? Or is it now working as documented? |
102 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01335.html | |
103 | |
91686 | 104 ** move verilog-mode.el compile patterns into compile.el? |
105 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg00234.html | |
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91748 | 107 ** stack-trace-on-error segfaults infloop |
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119 *** The data segment size increased after the unicode-2 merge. | |
120 The "data" size increased for emacs from ~4MB to ~11MB on x86. | |
121 The temacs sizes are comparable. | |
122 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg00951.html | |
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127 ** Document multi-tty features |
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129 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-08/msg01602.html | |
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131 ** Document new font backend |
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Tracking the confirmation of translators in admin/FOR-RELEASE for the new title of the tutorial that will also appear in the splash screen. Improvements and corrections in TUTORIAL.es and TUTORIAL.pt_BR.
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Update refcard translations. Add coding cookie.
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