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Document Message mode as the default mail mode. * sending.texi (Sending Mail): Document the fact that Message mode is now the default mail mode. (Mail Format, Mail Headers): Document mail-from-style changes. (Mail Commands): Rename from Mail mode. Document Message mode. (Mail Misc): Rename from Mail mode Misc. (Mail Sending, Header Editing, Mail Misc): Switch to Message mode command names and update keybindings. (Header Editing): Document message-tab. De-document mail-self-blind, mail-default-reply-to, and mail-archive-file-name in favor of mail-default-headers. Ad index entries for user-full-name and user-mail-address. (Citing Mail): Update changes in Message mode behavior. Document mail-yank-prefix. (Mail Signature): New node, moved from Mail Misc. (Mail Aliases): Mail abbrevs are the default with Message mode. (Mail Methods): Note that Message mode is now the default. * rmail.texi (Rmail Reply): * text.texi (Text Mode): * major.texi (Major Modes): * mule.texi (Output Coding): Refer to Message mode. * custom.texi (Init Examples): Add xref to Mail Header. * emacs.texi (Top): Fix xrefs.

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.