view etc/future-bug @ 83008:040dd41ed7d0

Hookified termcap devices, added bootstrap display device, plus many bugfixes. lisp/frame.el (display-color-cells): Pass display parameter to tty-display-color-cells. lisp/term/xterm.el (xterm-register-default-colors): Pass the selected-frame to display-color-cells. src/dispextern.h (set_terminal_modes, reset_terminal_modes): Removed declarations. (get_named_tty_display): New prototype. (tty_clear_end_of_line, term_init): Updated to new prototype. (initial_term_init): Renamed to init_initial_display. src/dispnew.c (Fredraw_frame): ifdef-out DOS-specific code. Add display parameter to set_terminal_modes call. (update_frame): Don't flush the tty of there is no tty. (init_display): Set up a termcap display on the controlling tty and change the initial frame to use that. Delete the initial display. src/frame.c (Fframep): Return t for the initial frame. (make_initial_frame): New function for creating the initial frame during bootstrap. Use init_initial_display, not initial_term_init. (make_terminal_frame): Removed special cases for creating the initial frame. src/frame.h (enum output_method): New entry: output_initial for the bootstrap display. (FRAME_INITIAL_P): New macro. (make_initial_frame): New prototype. src/keyboard.c (interrupt_signal): Exit Emacs on SIGINT from the (frameless) controlling tty, if possible. Explain this in a comment. (init_keyboard): Added comment about exiting on SIGINT. (Fset_input_mode): A termcap frame is never the initial frame anymore. src/sysdep.c (init_sys_modes): Update tty_set_terminal_modes call to the new prototype. (reset_sys_modes): Comment out tty_clear_end_of_line call; it doesn't work anymore. Update tty_reset_terminal_modes call. src/termchar.h (struct tty_display_info): Added pointer to the display structure, for reset_sys_modes. src/termhooks.h (struct display): Added display parameter to set_terminal_modes_hook and reset_terminal_modes_hook. src/term.c (initial_display): New variable. (tty_ring_bell, tty_update_end, tty_set_terminal_window, tty_cursor_to) (tty_raw_cursor_to, tty_clear_to_end, tty_clear_frame, tty_clear_end_of_line) (tty_write_glyphs, tty_insert_glyphs, tty_delete_glyphs, tty_ins_del_lines): New functions. (ring_bell, update_end, set_terminal_window, cursor_to, raw_cursor_to) (clear_to_end, clear_frame, clear_end_of_line, write_glyphs, insert_glyphs) (delete_glyphs, ins_del_lines): Removed special casing of termcap displays. (get_tty_display): New function. (Ftty_display_color_p, Ftty_display_color_cells): Use it. (get_named_tty_display): Removed static. (tty_set_terminal_modes, tty_reset_terminal_modes): Changed to use a display parameter instead of tty_display_info for hook compatibility. (set_terminal_modes, reset_terminal_modes): Removed. (initial_term_init): Renamed to init_initial_display. Set up an output_initial device, not a termcap display. (delete_initial_display): New function. (maybe_fatal): New function, for private use of term_init. (term_init): New parameter for choosing between fatal and simple errors. Removed incomprehensible special casing for the second initialization of the controlling tty. Use maybe_fatal for error handling. Initialize termcap display hooks in the new device. Initialize the display pointer in the tty_display_info structure. (delete_tty): Replace order of reset_sys_modes and delete_display. src/window.c (init_window_once): Call make_initial_frame instead of make_terminal_frame. src/xfaces.c (realize_default_face, realize_face): Don't abort on the bootstrap display device. src/xterm.c (XTset_terminal_modes, XTreset_terminal_modes): Added display parameter. git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-48

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.