view etc/future-bug @ 26789:03a6016a38bf

(#includes): Allow compilation with only Xaw. (xaw3d_arrow_scroll, xaw3d_pick_top): New variables. (xt_action_hook): Replace XAW3D by XAW. (xaw3d_jump_callback): Renamed to xaw_jump_callback. (xaw_jump_callback): Renamed from xaw3d_jump_callback. Determine epsilon dynamically and don't try to be too clever. (xaw3d_scroll_callback): Renamed to xaw_scroll_callback. (xaw_scroll_callback): Renamed from xaw3d_scroll_callback. Handle both Xaw3d with arrow-scrollbars and with Xaw-style scrollbar (using `ratio'). (x_create_toolkit_scroll_bar): Try to detect which style of Xaw3d scrollbar we have so as to set it up more optimally and to fix xaw3d_arrow_scroll and xaw3d_pick_top. (x_set_toolkit_scroll_bar_thumb): Try to maintain 2 spare pixels at the bottom of the Xaw3d scrollbar, to work around its tendency to refuse shrinking the thumb. Also make sure that `XawScrollbarSetThumb' is not ignored, using a major gross hack. (x_initialize): Init default values for xaw3d_arrow_scroll and xaw3d_pick_top.

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.