view etc/future-bug @ 87650:29fbecdf9527

(bibtex-initialize): New autoloaded command. Rename from function bibtex-files-expand. New optional arg select. (bibtex-flash-head): Allow blink-matching-delay being zero. (bibtex-clean-entry): Use atomic-change-group. (bibtex-format-entry): Check presence of required fields only after formatting of fields. Use member-ignore-case. Do not use bibtex-parse-entry. Do not use booktitle field to set a missing title. (bibtex-autofill-entry): Do not call undo-boundary. (bibtex-lessp): Handle crossref keys that point to another bibtex file. (bibtex-sort-buffer, bibtex-prepare-new-entry, bibtex-validate): Parse keys if necessary.

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.