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[!TARGET_API_MAC_CARBON] Include Scrap.h. [MAC_OSX] (install_service_handler): Rename from init_service_handler. All callers changed. Return OSStatus value. (Selection): New typedef. Use instead of ScrapRef. (mac_get_selection_from_symbol): Rename from get_scrap_from_symbol. (mac_valid_selection_target_p): Rename from valid_scrap_target_type_p. (mac_clear_selection): Rename from clear_scrap. (get_flavor_type_from_symbol): New argument SEL and subsume function of scrap_has_target_type. All uses changed. (mac_get_selection_ownership_info, mac_valid_selection_value_p) (mac_selection_has_target_p): New functions. (mac_put_selection_value): Rename from put_scrap_string. (mac_get_selection_value): Rename from get_scrap_string. (mac_get_selection_target_list): Rename from get_scrap_target_type_list. (put_scrap_private_timestamp, scrap_has_target_type) (get_scrap_private_timestamp): Remove functions. (SCRAP_FLAVOR_TYPE_EMACS_TIMESTAMP): Remove define. (x_own_selection, x_get_local_selection): Use mac_valid_selection_value_p. (x_own_selection): Don't use put_scrap_private_timestamp. Record OWNERSHIP-INFO into Vselection_alist instead. (x_get_local_selection): Don't check type if request is local. (Fx_selection_owner_p): Don't use get_scrap_private_timestamp. Detect ownership change with OWNERSHIP-INFO in Vselection_alist instead.

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.