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Retrospective commit from 2009-09-26. Continued working on initialization. Started working on paragraph direction initialization. bidi.c (bidi_paragraph_init): Don't set bidi_it->ch_len. Abort if called not at beginning of a new paragraph. (bidi_get_next_char_visually): Prepare and use a sentinel iterator state when first_elt flag is set. dispextern.h (struct bidi_it): New struct member first_elt. bidi.c (bidi_init_it): Initialize bidi_it->first_elt. (bidi_copy_it): Don't copy the first_elt flag. xdisp.c (reseat_1): Initialize bidi_it.first_elt. Move bidi scan start code from here... (next_element_from_buffer): ...to here. Use bidi_it.first_elt flag.

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			 The admin directory

This directory contains scripts and other things useful for developing
and maintaining Emacs.  These files are not part of Emacs releases
because they are not deemed generally useful, and you have to know
what you do when using them.


* Instructions and scripts used to prepare an Emacs release.

** FOR-RELEASE

Living list of activities that must be completed before the next release.

** make-tarball.txt

Instructions to create pretest or release tarballs, annoucements, etc.

** admin.el

Utilities for setting version numbers and alike.

** make-announcement, make-changelog-diff

Scripts used to prepare release announcements.


* Scripts that can be used to build and test Emacs.

** build-configs

Build Emacs in various configurations.

** make-emacs

Build Emacs in various ways.

** quick-install-emacs

Install emacs quickly (`incrementally').

** alloc-color.c

A utility program that allocates a given number of colors on X.  Can
be used to debug Emacs with dense colormaps (PseudoColor).

** check-doc-strings

Check doc strings against documentation.

** cus-test.el

Tests for custom types and load problems.

** diff-tar-files

Show files added/removed between two tar files.

** revdiff

Get CVS diffs of files.


Brief description of sub-directories:

charsets		scripts for generating charset map files
			in ../etc/charsets
unidata			scripts for generating character property files
			in ../lisp/international


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Local variables:
mode: outline
paragraph-separate: "[ 	]*$"
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