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author | Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org> |
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date | Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:11:15 +0000 |
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25852 | 1 Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600 |
2 From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@floss.cyclic.com> | |
3 To: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu | |
4 Subject: M-x search-backward-in-time broken... | |
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 | |
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 | |
14 enough to catch the error as it happens. However I have traced the | |
15 problem through source by eye, and it looks like `time-forward' can't | |
16 handle negative arguments anymore. This is consistent with other | |
17 symptoms: for example, `undo' (which since 51.25 has worked by passing | |
18 a negative arg to `time-forward') is also broken. However, `do' still | |
19 works -- it seems that `time-forward' continues to handle positive | |
20 arguments just fine. | |
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22 No one here-and-now can figure out how to fix the problem, | |
23 because the code for `time-forward' is so hairy. We're using M-x | |
24 report-future-emacs-bug to request that you folks include more | |
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 | |
33 for N >= 0, we've used it to pre-emptively update configure.in. | |
34 Emacs now configures and builds on every platform that will ever | |
35 be made. It wasn't easy, but at least that's one problem out of | |
36 the way for good. If you'd like the patch, just ask. | |
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