annotate BUGS @ 107646:dfdf14a6f5a0

Support MS-Windows build and reversed rows in GUI frames; add initial docs. doc/emacs/mule.texi (International): Mention support of bidirectional editing. (Bidirectional Editing): New section. etc/HELLO: Reorder Arabic and Hebrew into logical order, and insert RLM before the opening paren, to make the display more reasonable. Add setting for bidi-display-reordering in the local variables section. lisp/files.el: Make bidi-display-reordering safe variable for boolean values. src/xdisp (append_glyph): If the glyph row is reversed, prepend the glyph rather than appending it. src/makefile.w32-in (OBJ1): Add $(BLD)/bidi.$(O). ($(BLD)/bidi.$(O)): New target.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:26:24 -0400
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1 If you think you may have found a bug in GNU Emacs, please
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2 read the Bugs section of the Emacs manual for advice on
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3 (1) how to tell when to report a bug, and
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4 (2) how to write a useful bug report and what information
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5 it needs to have.
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7 There are three ways to read the Bugs section.
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8
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9 (1) In a printed copy of the Emacs manual.
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10 You can order one from the Free Software Foundation;
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11 see the file etc/ORDERS. But if you don't have a copy on
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12 hand and you think you have found a bug, you shouldn't wait
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13 to get a printed manual; you should read the section right away
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14 as described below.
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16 (2) With Info. Start Emacs, do C-h i to enter Info,
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17 then m Emacs RET to get to the Emacs manual, then m Bugs RET
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18 to get to the section on bugs. Or use standalone Info in
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19 a like manner. (Standalone Info is part of the Texinfo distribution,
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20 not part of the Emacs distribution.)
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22 (3) By hand. Do
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23 cat info/emacs* | more "+/^File: emacs, Node: Bugs,"
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25 Please first check the file etc/PROBLEMS (e.g. with C-h C-p in Emacs) to
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26 make sure it isn't a known issue.