List of some current problems

[Markus Rost]

It appears that the CVS version is since quite a while so unstable for
me that I can't use it for daily work.  Maybe someone is working on
the bugs.  Anyway, let me give a list of problems:

1.  I can confirm the recent report
    
    <URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-07/msg00318.html>
    
    This bug causes my Solaris machine to beep forever like with
    (while t (ding)).  I found no way to stop this except to reboot
    the machine.  I can't even login from another machine to kill the
    Emacs process.

    I had experienced this problem under other scenarios as well.  I
    don't remember when this occured first, but it was not very long
    ago.  In one case show-paren-mode was turned on and I used
    query-replace-regexp.

2.  Same problem when actually evaluating (while t (ding)).  No way to
    stop the beeb except rebooting.  This problem occured to me just
    now, when writing this mail.  It happens also with Emacs-20.7.

3.  CVS Emacs crashes frequently.  So often that I usually use the
    stable 21.3 version.  The backtraces from gdb look similar to the
    one reported in
    
    
<URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-02/msg00118.html>

4.  The file-name completion problem reported on emacs-pretesters

       From: "Marshall, Simon" <address@hidden>
       To: "'Emacs Pretesters'" <address@hidden>
       Subject: Anyone seen a barf on TAB in minibuffer when a valid completion 
exists?
       Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:15:04 -0000

    still exists for me.  This is an annoying bug, since I wonder once
    in a while "Where has my file gone?" or "What was the name of my
    file?", while it is just Emacs which somehow doesn't get it.

5.  The redisplay problem reported on

    
<URL:http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-pretest-bug/2003-06/msg00166.html>

    still exists.

This is all on X with
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.27 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit) of 2003-07-19