Tasks needed before the next release. * NEW FEATURES ** Face remapping. ** Make VC-over-Tramp work where possible, or at least fail gracefully if something isn't supported over Tramp. To be done by Andre Spiegel . ** define-minor-mode should not put :require into defcustom. See msg from rms to emacs-devel on 21 Dec. ** Update Speedbar. * FATAL ERRORS ** Investigate face cache related crash. Indications: Face cache seems to have been cleared, but redisplay uses an invalidated face_id with FACE_FROM_ID which then returns a NULL pointer. Said to happen with isearch faces. ** Investigate reported crashes in compact_small_strings. ** Investigate reported crashes related to using an invalid pointer from string_free_list. * LOSSAGE ** Clean up flymake.el to follow Emacs Lisp conventions. ** Fix up url-ldap.el. ** url/*.el has lots of `(declare (special ...))' which are meaningless. What's that trying to do? * BUGS ** Ange-ftp should ignore irrelevant IPv6 errors: Message-Id: <4121-Tue23Mar2004165249+0100-piet@cs.uu.nl> From: "Piet van Oostrum" To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: Ange-ftp can't deal with IPV6/IPV4 fallback Symptoms: C-x C-f /ftp.nluug.nl:/ The problem is that the DNS first gives an IPV6 address. However our router doesn't do IPV6. Ftp then falls back to IPV4: ftp> open ftp.nluug.nl Trying 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36... ftp: connect to address 2001:610:1:80aa:192:87:102:36: No route to host Trying 192.87.102.36... Connected to ftp.nluug.nl. Ange-ftp chokes on the `No route to host' message and doesn't look any further. I think in the near future we will see more of this problem, so it might be time to make anfe-ftp more intelligent. ** pcvs bug: In a CVS mode buffer created using the `cvs-examine' command, if I commit a file in a subdirectory, after committing the line is not updated with the version of the new revision. Instead, a line is added in the buffer in the top directory listing. Example: I start with this: ,---- | In directory .: | Unknown .htaccess | Unknown 404.php | Unknown rain.jpg | In directory include: | Modified include/foo.include `---- I commit the file include/foo.include using `c' on the corresponding line. I get: ,---- | In directory .: | Unknown .htaccess | Unknown 404.php | committed Up-To-Date 1.13 foo.include | Unknown rain.jpg | In directory include: | Modified include/foo.include `---- There is no file named foo.include in the top directory. This bug appeared sometime before October 2004 and now. * GTK RELATED BUGS ** Make GTK scrollbars behave like others w.r.t. overscrolling. * REDISPLAY RELATED BUGS ** Strange text scrolling with Emacs + GTK > I could reproduce the problem with the latest CVS. > > % emacs -Q > M-x info RET > M-> > C-l > C-x ( C-u - 1 C-v C-x ) > C-x e e e e ... > > I see the problem around "CC mode" and "Forms". It is not specific for the first line of a buffer. Rather it happens for lines which are indented but the indentation is controlled by a display property and the newline is part of that display property -- in that case, the indentation is not recognized for the first display line. ** Avoid unbreakable loops in redisplay. Redisplay may loop if there is an error in some display property, e.g. (space 'left-margin) A fix would be to somehow disable handling of display properties if an error is encountered. ** Problem with modeline and window margins: The mode line's right "box" line is misplaced under the right margin, rather than at the right window edge. emacs -Q (set-window-margins nil 25 25) C-x 2 ** custom mode-line face makes Emacs freeze up From: Stephen Berman Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 02:08:56 +0200 1. Start Emacs with -q -no-site-file. 2. Type `M-x customize-face' and at the prompt `mode-line'. 3. In the Custom buffer for mode-line face a. check width and give it the value `narrow'; b. check height and give it the value 120 in 1/10 pt; c. check underline and give it the value `on' (or `colored'); d. check overline and give it the value `on' (or `colored'). 4. Set for current session. 5. Invoke Ediff on any two files. 6. Now Emacs is frozen and consumes 95-99% of CPU. The customizations in step 3 appear to be the minimum necessary to induce this bug. Leave out any one of them and Ediff runs without a problem. Also if the 1/10 point value of height is 130 or greater there's no bug (with the default font family; with e.g. Helvetica the bug is induced only by a value of 100 or less). I've noticed this freeze up only when invoking Ediff. The only thing I've been able to do is kill Emacs externally, via top or with kill when run in gdb, after interrupting. When the freeze up happens within a gdb session, there is no automatic debugging feedback. After interrupting I can get a backtrace, here's an example: Update: Maybe only reveals itself when compiled with GTK+ * DOCUMENTATION ** Document Custom Themes. ** Finish updating the Emacs Lisp manual. ** Update the Emacs manual. *** Update man/info.texi. *** Update man/ack.texi. ** Add missing years in copyright notices of all files. ** Update AUTHORS. ** Reorder NEWS entries. ** 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 man/anti.texi man/basic.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/building.texi "Ted Zlatanov" man/calendar.texi Joakim Verona man/cmdargs.texi Chong Yidong man/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/custom.texi Chong Yidong man/dired.texi man/display.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/emacs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/entering.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/fixit.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/glossary.texi man/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/indent.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/killing.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/kmacro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/macos.texi man/maintaining.texi man/major.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/mark.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/mini.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/misc.texi man/msdog.texi man/mule.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/m-x.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/picture.texi Joakim Verona man/programs.texi "Stephen Eglen" man/regs.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/rmail.texi man/screen.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/search.texi "Luc Teirlinck" man/sending.texi man/text.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong man/trouble.texi 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" lispref/advice.texi Joakim Verona lispref/anti.texi lispref/backups.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/buffers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/calendar.texi Joakim Verona lispref/commands.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/compile.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/control.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/customize.texi lispref/debugging.texi Joakim Verona lispref/display.texi lispref/edebug.texi lispref/elisp.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/errors.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/eval.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/files.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/frames.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/functions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/hash.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/help.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/hooks.texi lispref/internals.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/intro.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/keymaps.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/lists.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/loading.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/locals.texi lispref/macros.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/maps.texi lispref/markers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/minibuf.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/modes.texi Chong Yidong lispref/nonascii.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/numbers.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/objects.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/os.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/positions.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/processes.texi lispref/searching.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/sequences.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/streams.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/strings.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong lispref/symbols.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/syntax.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/text.texi Chong Yidong lispref/tips.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/variables.texi "Luc Teirlinck" lispref/windows.texi "Luc Teirlinck" Chong Yidong Local variables: mode: outline end: