annotate etc/future-bug @ 99875:3658bfd115cd

* textmodes/artist.el (artist-charlist-to-string): Simplify. (artist-mode-name, artist-mt, artist-vaporize-fuzziness) (artist-prev-next-op-alist, artist-mode-line-show-curr-operation) (artist-replace-string, artist-draw-rect, artist-draw-line) (artist-undraw-line, artist-draw-sline, artist-undraw-rect) (artist-rect-corners-squarify, artist-undraw-square, artist-fill-square) (artist-pen, artist-pen-line, artist-text-insert-common) (artist-text-overwrite, artist-spray-get-interval) (artist-spray-clear-circle, artist-erase-char) (artist-ellipse-generate-quadrant, artist-copy-square, artist-paste) (artist-flood-fill, artist-key-draw-continously, artist-key-draw-poly) (artist-key-draw-1point, artist-key-draw-2points) (artist-mouse-draw-continously): Fix typos in docstrings. (artist-aspect-ratio, artist-mode, artist-go-get-symbol-shift) (artist-go-get-symbol-shift-sub, artist-previous-line, artist-next-line) (artist-backward-char, artist-forward-char): Doc fixes. (artist-vaporize-line, artist-spray-chars, artist-spray-new-char): Reflow docstrings.
author Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
date Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:30:14 +0000
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1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600
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2 From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@floss.cyclic.com>
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3 To: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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4 Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken...
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5 X-Windows: you'll envy the dead.
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7 In GNU Emacs 51.70.4 (i9986-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Sat Feb 20 2199 on floss
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8 configured using `configure --with-x-toolkit=yes'
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10 The `search-backward-in-time' function appears to be broken in
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11 Emacs 51.70.
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13 Unfortunately, I can never seem to start the debugger early
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14 enough to catch the error as it happens. However I have traced the
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15 problem through source by eye, and it looks like `time-forward' can't
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16 handle negative arguments anymore. This is consistent with other
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17 symptoms: for example, `undo' (which since 51.25 has worked by passing
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18 a negative arg to `time-forward') is also broken. However, `do' still
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19 works -- it seems that `time-forward' continues to handle positive
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20 arguments just fine.
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22 No one here-and-now can figure out how to fix the problem,
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23 because the code for `time-forward' is so hairy. We're using M-x
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24 report-future-emacs-bug to request that you folks include more
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25 comments when you write it (sometime in 2198 as I recall).
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27 Thanks!
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29 -Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
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32 P.S. You'll be pleased to know that since (time-forward N) still works
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33 for N >= 0, we've used it to pre-emptively update configure.in.
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34 Emacs now configures and builds on every platform that will ever
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35 be made. It wasn't easy, but at least that's one problem out of
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36 the way for good. If you'd like the patch, just ask.
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