Reporting Bugs
**************

   If any bugs are discovered in Emacs/W3, please report them to the
mailing list w3-beta@indiana.edu -- this is where the brave souls who
beta test the latest versions of Emacs/W3 reside, and are generally
very responsive to bug reports.  Please make sure to use the bug
submission feature of Emacs/W3, so that all relevant information will
be sent along with your bug report.  By default this is bound to the
`<w>' key when in an Emacs/W3 buffer, or you can use <M-x
w3-submit-bug> from anywhere within Emacs.

   For problems that are causing emacs to signal and error, please send
a backtrace.  You can get a backtrace by `M-x setvariable RET
debug-on-error RET t RET', and then reproduce the error.

   If the problem is visual, please capture a copy of the output and
mail it along with the bug report (preferably as a MIME attachment, but
anything will do).  You can use the `xwd' program under X-windows for
this, or <Alt-PrintScreen> under Windows 95/NT.  Sorry, but I don't
remember what the magic incarnation is for doing a screen dump under
NeXTstep or OS/2.

   If the problem is actually causing Emacs to crash, then you will
need to also mail the maintainers of the various Emacs distributions
with the bug.  Please use the gnu.emacs.bug newgroup for reporting bugs
with GNU Emacs 19, and comp.emacs.xemacs for reporting bugs with XEmacs
19 or XEmacs 20.  I am actively involved with the beta testing of the
latest versions of both branches of Emacs, and if I can reproduce the
problem, I will do my best to see it gets fixed in the next release.

   It is also important to always maintain as much context as possible
in your responses.  I get so much email from my various Emacs-activities
and work, that I cannot remember everything.  If you send a bug report,
and I send you a reply, and you reply with 'no that didn't work', then
odds are I will have no clue what didn't work, much less what that was
trying to fix in the first place.  It will be much quicker and less
painful if I don't have to waste a round-trip email exchange saying
'what are you talking about'.