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Full support for multiple terminal I/O (with some rough edges). lib-src/emacsclient.c (emacs_pid): New variable. (window_change): Forward the SIGWINCH signal to the Emacs process after copying the size parameters to the proxy terminal. (copy_from_to): New parameter (sigio), kill Emacs with SIGIO if it is nonzero. (main): Set emacs_pid. lisp/server.el (server-process-filter): Send the pid of Emacs to emacsclient. src/cm.c: Added tty parameters to all functions and all Wcm macro calls. src/cm.h: Added tty parameters to all macros. Updated function prototypes. (Wcm): Moved to struct tty_output. src/dispextern.h: Updated function prototypes. src/dispnew.c: Added tty parameters to all Wcm macro calls. (do_switch_frame): Make old frame obscured, not invisible, to solve problems with other-frame. (Wcm): Moved to struct tty_output. src/keyboard.c (read_avail_input): Select the frame corresponding to the tty that was read. Slight rearrangement of tty loop. src/lisp.h (tabs_safe_p): Removed duplicate prototype. src/sysdep.c (hft_init, hft_reset): Added tty_output parameter. (discard_tty_input): Discard input from all ttys on APOLLO, too. Whatever it is. (narrow_foreground_group, widen_foreground_group): Added tty parameter (not really useful, the functions only work on the controlling tty.) (tabs_safe_p): Added tty parameter. src/term.c Added tty parameters to all Wcm macro calls. Standardised updating_frame vs. selected frame and tty_output access. (term_init): Allocate Wcm. (syms_of_term): Provide the `multi-tty' feature. src/termchar.h (struct tty_output): Added Wcm. src/xdisp.c (try_window_id): Make sure we use the tty device corresponding to the current frame. git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-8

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.