Can We Fix a Bug in Emacs?

• Next Org Roam video coming this week (for realz this time)
• Don’t forget to submit a proposal for EmacsConf 2021 (deadline Sep 30)! https://emacsconf.org/2021/cfp/

We’re going to find out :)

• fosskers’ post “Contributing to Emacs”: https://www.fosskers.ca/en/blog/contributing-to-emacs
• Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/p67jni/blog_how_to_contribute_to_emacs/
• Lars Ingebrigtsen’s blog posts: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2021/08/14/10x10/

On Debian / Ubuntu, install the following packages:

sudo apt install git build-essential automake
sudo apt build-dep emacs

In Guix:

guix environment --pure emacs-next --ad-hoc git

Now you can clone and build Emacs:

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

I personally used this configure line:

./configure --with-cairo --with-modules --disable-build-details

We may still look at the bug tracker to find one:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=emacs;max-bugs=100;base-order=1;bug-rev=1

For new contributors, try the easy tag!

Here are the bugs we looked at:

• vc file revision issue: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31763
• “Setting current directory” issue: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32004
• equal-including-properties issue: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6581
• GIF animations https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=45224 (test page)

Here’s how to report bugs: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bugs.html