annotate etc/future-bug @ 30341:2ad638704621

(IT_note_mode_line_highlight, IT_note_mouse_highlight): Record the object that generated the help echo and the position of that object in help_echo_object and help_echo_pos. Record that some glyphs in a row are displayed in mouse-face. (IT_update_begin): Don't clear mouse highlight unless one of the enabled glyph rows is marked as being displayed in mouse-face. (dos_rawgetc): Generate 2 events for HELP_EVENT. Pass the object and position recorded in help_echo_object and help_echo_pos to the event queue. (IT_menu_display): Accept a new argument PN: the pane number of the current menu pane. Record the pane number and the item number of the item which has associated help string. (XMenuActivate): Update the prototype for help_callback in function declaration. Call IT_menu_display with the current menu pane number as an additional argument. Call help_callback with two additional arguments: the pane number and the item number of the menu item associated with the help text. (help_echo_object, help_echo_pos): New variables. (syms_of_msdos): Initialize them and staticpro help_echo_object. (help_echo_window): New variable. (syms_of_msdos): Initialize and staticpro it. (IT_note_mode_line_highlight): Set help_echo_window. (IT_note_mouse_highlight): Ditto. (dos_rawgetc): Store help_echo_window in the second event produced for HELP_EVENTs.

Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600
From: Karl Fogel <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken...
X-Windows: you'll envy the dead.

In GNU Emacs 51.70.4 (i9986-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Sat Feb  20 2199 on floss
configured using `configure  --with-x-toolkit=yes'

        The `search-backward-in-time' function appears to be broken in
Emacs 51.70.  

        Unfortunately, I can never seem to start the debugger early
enough to catch the error as it happens.  However I have traced the
problem through source by eye, and it looks like `time-forward' can't
handle negative arguments anymore.  This is consistent with other
symptoms: for example, `undo' (which since 51.25 has worked by passing
a negative arg to `time-forward') is also broken.  However, `do' still
works -- it seems that `time-forward' continues to handle positive
arguments just fine.

        No one here-and-now can figure out how to fix the problem,
because the code for `time-forward' is so hairy.  We're using M-x
report-future-emacs-bug to request that you folks include more
comments when you write it (sometime in 2198 as I recall).

        Thanks!

-Karl Fogel   <[e-mail]>


P.S. You'll be pleased to know that since (time-forward N) still works
     for N >= 0, we've used it to pre-emptively update configure.in.
     Emacs now configures and builds on every platform that will ever
     be made.  It wasn't easy, but at least that's one problem out of
     the way for good.  If you'd like the patch, just ask.