view etc/future-bug @ 108656:0b28d05fa415

Initial reimplementation of calculating line edge positions in bidi lines. dispextern.h (struct glyph_row): New members minpos and maxpos. (MATRIX_ROW_START_CHARPOS, MATRIX_ROW_START_BYTEPOS) (MATRIX_ROW_END_CHARPOS, MATRIX_ROW_END_BYTEPOS): Reference minpos and maxpos members instead of start.pos and end.pos, respectively. xdisp.c (display_line): Compare IT_CHARPOS with the position in row->start.pos, rather than with MATRIX_ROW_START_CHARPOS. (cursor_row_p): Use row->end.pos rather than MATRIX_ROW_END_CHARPOS. (try_window_reusing_current_matrix, try_window_id): Use ROW->minpos rather than ROW->start.pos. (init_from_display_pos, init_iterator): Use EMACS_INT for character and byte positions. (find_row_edges): Renamed from find_row_end. Accept additional arguments for minimum and maximum buffer positions seen by display_line for this row. Don't use iterator to find the position following the maximum one; instead, increment the position found by display_line directly. (display_line): Record minimum and maximum buffer positions for glyphs in this row. Record the position of the newline that terminates the line. dispnew.c (increment_row_positions, check_matrix_invariants): Increment and check row->start.pos and row->end.pos, in addition to MATRIX_ROW_START_CHARPOS and MATRIX_ROW_END_CHARPOS.

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.