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Merged from [e-mail] Patches applied: * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-207 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-208 Sync from erc--emacs--0 * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-209 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-210 Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-211 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-212 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-213 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-214 Merge from gnus--rel--5.10 * [e-mail]/emacs--devo--0--patch-215 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/gnus--rel--5.10--patch-81 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/gnus--rel--5.10--patch-82 Update from CVS * [e-mail]/gnus--rel--5.10--patch-83 Update from CVS git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-549

Tasks needed before the next release.

* TO BE DONE SHORTLY BEFORE RELEASE

** `undo-ask-before-discard', currently set to t for debugging purposes
has to be set to nil: when t, it can leak memory and cause other problems.

** Update release dates of manuals.

** Spell check the manuals.

** Get rid of overfull and underfull boxes in manuals.

** Check for widow and orphan lines in manuals;
make sure all the pages really look ok in the manual as formatted.

** Update facemenu-unlisted-faces, adding whatever other
face name prefixes should be in it for good results.

** Update AUTHORS.

** Regenerate the postscript files of the reference cards in etc.

** Ask maintainers of refcard translations to update them.

** Check what should be deleted or updated in MORE.STUFF.

** Send an email to the various distributions, including the GNOME
and KDE projects, to use the new Emacs icons in etc/images/icons.

** Ensure MH-E 8.0 has been released.
Assigned to Bill Wohler <[e-mail]>.

* BUGS

** Stefan Monnier's March 20 bug report about 3d boxes in header line.

** Is there a basic problem with cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro?

** Markus Gritsch's report about Emacs looping on Windoze with the following
.emacs file, and then reduce Emacs frame width to "something quite narrow":
	(setq-default truncate-lines t)
	(custom-set-variables
	 '(hscroll-margin 20)
	 '(hscroll-step 1)
	)

** TCP server processes do not work on Windows.

TCP/IP server processes created with `make-network-process' consume
excesive CPU on some Windows environments.  Usages of 50% and 100%
CPU time have been observed on different Window XP configurations.
Seems to be a problem in sys_select in w32proc.c.

In its current form, it sys_select says the socket is ready, so we
call server_accept_connection which again calls accept() which returns
-1 with errno == WSAEWOULDBLOCK (10035) indicating that there is no
pending connection to accept.

It seems that to fix this, w32 server sockets must use WSAAsyncSelect
+ FD_ACCEPT to request notifications of incoming connections...


* DOCUMENTATION

** Add a node to the Lisp manual describing key sequences from the
Lisp point of view.

** Check man/info.texi.

** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files.

Please record your name here and say which part of the distribution
you're going to handle.

DIRECTORY		STATUS		IN CHARGE
---------		------		---------
etc (and subdirs)	done		Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn(@gnu.org))
leim			working		Kenichi Handa
lib-src			done		ttn
lisp			done		ttn
lisp/calc		done		Jay Belanger
lisp/calendar		done		Glenn Morris
lisp/emacs-lisp		done		ttn
lisp/emulation		done		ttn
lisp/eshell		done		ttn
lisp/gnus		done		Romain Francoise
lisp/international	working		Kenichi Handa
lisp/language		working		Kenichi Handa
lisp/mail		done		ttn
lisp/mh-e		done		Bill Wohler
lisp/net		done		ttn
lisp/obsolete		done		ttn
lisp/play		done		Romain Francoise
lisp/progmodes		done		Nick Roberts
lisp/term		done		ttn
lisp/textmodes		done		ttn
lisp/url		done		ttn
lispintro		done		ttn
lispref			done		ttn
lwlib			done		ttn
m4			done		ttn
mac (and subdirs)	done		ttn
man			done		ttn
msdos			done		ttn
nt (and subdirs)	done		ttn
oldXMenu		done		ttn
src (and subdirs)	done		ttn
vms			done		ttn

** Check the Emacs manual.

Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
people who have checked it.

SECTION             READERS
-----------------------------
man/abbrevs.texi    Chong Yidong    Joakim Verona
man/anti.texi       Chong Yidong
man/basic.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/buffers.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/building.texi   "Ted Zlatanov" <[e-mail]>
man/calendar.texi   [e-mail]  Chong Yidong
man/cmdargs.texi    Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
man/commands.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/custom.texi     Chong Yidong     "Luc Teirlinck"
man/dired.texi      Chong Yidong     [e-mail]
man/display.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/emacs.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Lute Kamstra
man/entering.texi   "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/files.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/fixit.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/frames.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/glossary.texi   Chong Yidong
man/help.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/indent.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/killing.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/kmacro.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/macos.texi      Chong Yidong
man/maintaining.texi Chong Yidong
man/major.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/mark.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/mini.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/misc.texi       Chong Yidong
man/msdog.texi      Chong Yidong
man/mule.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"  Kenichi Handa
man/m-x.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"  Chong Yidong
man/picture.texi    Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>   Chong Yidong
man/programs.texi   "Stephen Eglen"  Chong Yidong
man/regs.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/rmail.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
man/screen.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/search.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/sending.texi    Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
man/text.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/trouble.texi    Chong Yidong
man/windows.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
man/xresources.texi

** Check the Emacs Lisp manual.

Each manual section should be checked for factual correctness
regarding recent changes by at least two people.  After each file
name, on the same line or the following line, come the names of the
people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
lispref/abbrevs.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/advice.texi	 [e-mail]  Chong Yidong
lispref/anti.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/backups.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/buffers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/calendar.texi    Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>  Chong Yidong
lispref/commands.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/compile.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/control.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/customize.texi   Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
lispref/debugging.texi   Joakim Verona <[e-mail]>   Lute Kamstra
lispref/display.texi     Chong Yidong
lispref/edebug.texi      Chong Yidong      "Luc Teirlinck"
lispref/elisp.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Lute Kamstra
lispref/errors.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/eval.texi        "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/files.texi       "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/frames.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/functions.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/hash.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/help.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/hooks.texi	 Lute Kamstra      Chong Yidong
lispref/internals.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/intro.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Josh Varner
lispref/keymaps.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/lists.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/loading.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/locals.texi      Chong Yidong
lispref/macros.texi      "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/maps.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/markers.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/minibuf.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/modes.texi	 Chong Yidong
lispref/nonascii.texi    "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/numbers.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/objects.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/os.texi		 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/positions.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/processes.texi   Chong Yidong	   ttn
lispref/searching.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/sequences.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/streams.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/strings.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/symbols.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/syntax.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/text.texi        Chong Yidong
lispref/tips.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/variables.texi	 "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong
lispref/windows.texi     "Luc Teirlinck"   Chong Yidong

** Check the Emacs Tutorial.

The first line of every tutorial must begin with text ending in a period
(".", ASCII 0x2E) saying "Emacs Tutorial" in the respective language.
This should be followed by "See end for copying conditions", likewise
in the respective language.

After each file name, on the same line or the following line, come the
names of the people who have checked it.

SECTION                  READERS
----------------------------------
etc/TUTORIAL             rms
etc/TUTORIAL.bg          Ognyan Kulev <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.cn
etc/TUTORIAL.cs          Pavel Janík <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.de          Werner LEMBERG <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.es          Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.fr          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.it          ttn
etc/TUTORIAL.ja		 Kenichi Handa <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.ko
etc/TUTORIAL.nl		 Lute Kamstra
etc/TUTORIAL.pl          Slawomir Nowaczyk <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.pt_BR       Marcelo Toledo
etc/TUTORIAL.ro
etc/TUTORIAL.ru          Alex Ott <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sk          Pavel Janík <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sl          Primoz PETERLIN <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.sv          Mats Lidell <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.th          Virach Sornlertlamvanich <[e-mail]>
etc/TUTORIAL.zh


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