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Portability fixes (now it compiles & runs fine on Solaris). lib-src/emacsclient.c: Removed tty proxy kludge. Emacs should just use the same terminal as emacsclient. (ec_get_tty, ec_set_tty, master, pty_name, old_tty, tty, old_tty_valid) (tty_erase_char, quit_char, flow_control, meta_key, _sobuf, init_tty) (window_change, reset_tty, init_pty, copy_from_to) (pty_conversation): Removed. (window_change_signal): Just forward the signal to Emacs, don't do anything else. (init_signals): Don't set handlers for SIGHUP & SIGINT. (strprefix): New function. (main): Don't touch the terminal, simply tell its name to Emacs. lisp/server.el (server-frames): Changed name and semantics to server-ttys. (server-tty-live-p): New function. (server-sentinel): Delete the whole tty, not just the frame. (server-handle-delete-frame): Removed. (server-handle-delete-tty): New function. Close the client connection if the tty is deleted. (server-start): Clean up server-ttys, not server-frames. Set up delete-tty-after-functions. (server-process-filter): Set up server-ttys, not server-frames. Updated protocol for sending our pid to emacsclient. (server-buffer-done): Don't delete the client process directly, delete the tty instead, and rely on the delete-tty hook to close the connection. Otherwise the terminal could be left in a bad state. src/cm.c (cmputc): Don't abort on write errors. src/indent.c: #include <stdio.h>, for termchar.h. src/window.c: Ditto. src/xfaces.c: Ditto. src/sysdep.c (init_sigio, reset_sigio, request_sigio)[!SIGIO] (unrequest_sigio)[!SIGIO]: If SIGIO is not supported, don't do anything. (For Solaris.) (init_sys_modes): Moved tty_set_terminal_modes call back to here, disable window system check. (reset_sys_modes): Reset the terminal even if X is running. src/term.c (Vdelete_tty_after_functions): New variable. (syms_of_term): Initialize it. (Fdelete_tty): Updated docs. (delete_tty): Run delete-tty-after-functions. (term_init): Removed tty_set_terminal_modes call. git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-35

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.