Re: Some proposed backports from master to emacs-25

[Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>]

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On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Could you please provide a short explanation why you think each of the
> backports should be in 25.2?  I've looked through the log messages,
> and couldn't figure that out easily.
>
> In general, since we want 25.2 released quickly, I think the criteria
> for back-porting should be somewhat rigid, something like:
>
>   . any doc fixes
>   . regressions from 24.5
>   . problems introduced in features new in 25.1

Ah, in that case, I would propose just these 4 (pushed to
scratch/backports-25.2-strict)

;;; Regression in Emacs 25.1
Don't require isearch-update before isearch-done

;;; This bug actually crashes in emacs-25
Avoid error in icalendar--read-element

;;; Doc fixes
Make a menu less ambiguous
Doc fix for url-http

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;;; Regression in Emacs 25.1
eb5dd2c Don't require isearch-update before isearch-done

;;; This bug actually crashes in emacs-25
171ec16 Avoid error in icalendar--read-element

;;; Doc fixes
f3a19cf Make a menu less ambiguous
25895c4 Doc fix for url-http

;;; Drop these
e1e768e Default web pages to right-to-left
a33eb50 Let url use default file modes when copying files
7d89389 Make erc connect asynchronously
145e369 Make the nsm query say what it did after the user interaction
8fd0223 Make mail-extract-address-components return the user name more
aad7ede Ensure progress when fetching from the queue
2284444 Require that the buffer that we're trying to patch exist
b16e6c3 Require that the buffer that we're trying to patch exist
5c084d9 Remove spurious newline in package list
fbe5f7b Completely ignore buffers with no name when copying file names
95d5520 Allow optional parameter to be nil
5266c11 Allow more shell script defun forms
1cd6309 Allow ff-find-other-file (etc) to work with indirect clone buffers
70244eb Allow highlighting things like @math{2^{12}}
0780aa5 Replace XXX acronyms with draft standard ones
344bc2b Strip out some leading whitespace when looking at logs
5f4c54b Declare $ as an expression prefix in SCSS
0d9709e Meta + shift + Fn combos are recognized by xterm>=216.
e2e25ae Make <div> in <li> not insert extra newlines
80cf0b6 Restore the fix to bug#18527 from commit d6868025
30376cc Allow _ characters in SQL prompts
69e0e89 Handle auth-source items with special characters on OS X
77c3f7f Make `q' etc work in image mode again
d7de0c4 smtpmail would say it's done before it is
f24a305 Make `undo' of `C-x r t' put point where it should be
f65b1a3 Don't consider colons to be paragraphs starting chars in strings
51656da Fix number-at-point in lisp buffers
d95942f Clean up custom-buffer-create code slightly
18f1ab7 Have describe-variable output multi-line values better
7826f1f Make ibuffer not break on newline-embedded buffer names
5afea13 Rename "Directory Search" menu to "Servers"
d6f5232 Remove ": ?" from the read-face-name prompt
87a7490 Clarify `read-face-name' doc and tweak the code
3713acd Cancel the eldoc timer when switching off eldoc mode
33b69a1 Warning fix in jit-lock-mode
c9443ca Make describe-variable look up the variable in the current buffer
4af6945 Add `size-indication-mode' to the menu on `mouse-1' "Top"
90262cc Allow `global-set-key' to bind keys under the `M-o' map
12d1955 * lisp/files.el (version-control): Drop :group vc (Bug #14687)
cf54324 Improve error when installing non-package dirs
0876366 Fix back-white <-> black-white typo
9e9f7c8 Don't --load directories