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Merge changes made in Gnus trunk. mail-parse.el (mail-header-encode-parameter): Define as rfc2045-encode-string. nnheader.el (nnheader-insert-nov): Protect against junk appearing in the extra mail headers. gnus-html.el: Prefetch and html washing additions. gnus-html.el (gnus-html-prefetch-images): Fix up the url-retrieve calling conventions so that prefetch doesn't bug out. Pass proper format strings to gnus-message. nnimap.el: Allow anonymous login. nnimap.el (nnimap-transform-headers): The chars header is called Chars not Bytes. nnimap.el (nnimap-wait-for-response): Don't infloop if the IMAP connection drops. gnus-start.el (gnus-get-unread-articles): Call `gnus-open-server' on each method before trying to scan them etc. gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-update-mark): Replace subst-char-in-region by subst-char-in-region. gnus.el (gnus-similar-server-opened): Refactor a bit and add comments. gnus.el: Fix a speed regression based in methods that were similar weren't the same. gnus.el (gnus): When using the development version of Gnus, load the gnus-load file. nnimap.el (nnimap-open-connection): When looking for credentials, also use the nnimap-server-port. nnimap.el (nnimap-request-article): Return the group/article number, so that Gnus `^' works as expected. nnimap.el (nnimap-find-wanted-parts-1): Return the MIME parts as IMAP wants them. gnus-start.el (gnus-ignored-newsgroups): Remove [] from the list of bogus characters. gnus-html.el (gnus-html-image-fetched): Protect against the data not arriving. nnimap.el (nnimap-wait-for-connection): Avoid a race condition while waiting for the connection string. gnus.texi (Required Back End Functions): Document INFO.

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.