view etc/future-bug @ 51195:3cbf29813eea

(struct frame): Rename members height to text_lines, width to text_cols, window_height to total_lines, window_width to total_cols, new_height to new_text_lines, new_width to new_text_cols. All uses changed. (struct frame): New members which consolidate common members of x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures: left_pos, top_pos, pixel_height, pixel_width, x_pixels_diff, y_pixels_diff, win_gravity, size_hint_flags, border_width, internal_border_width, line_height, fringe_cols, left_fringe_width, right_fringe_width, want_fullscreen. All uses changed. (struct frame): New member column_width contaning the canonical column width, analogue to line_height. All uses changed. (struct frame): Rename members scroll_bar_pixel_width to config_scroll_bar_width, and scroll_bar_cols to config_scroll_bar_cols. All uses changed. (struct frame): New member scroll_bar_actual_width which consolidates and renames the vertical_scroll_bar_extra member of x_output, w32_output, and mac_output structures. All uses changed. (FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from PIXEL_HEIGHT and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_height. (FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from PIXEL_WIDTH and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->output_data...->pixel_width. (FRAME_LINES): Renamed from FRAME_HEIGHT. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->height. (FRAME_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WIDTH. All uses changed. Also change code which referred to f->width. (FRAME_NEW_HEIGHT, FRAME_NEW_WIDTH): Remove macros; change uses to update new_text_lines and new_text_cols members directly. (FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_PIXEL_WIDTH. All uses changed. (FRAME_CONFIG_SCROLL_BAR_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_COLS. All uses changed. (FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS, FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH and FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_WIDTH, resp. All uses changed. (FRAME_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH, FRAME_LEFT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH) (FRAME_RIGHT_SCROLL_BAR_AREA_WIDTH): New macros. (FRAME_TOTAL_COLS): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH. (SET_FRAME_COLS): Renamed from SET_FRAME_WIDTH. (FRAME_TOTAL_COLS_ARG): Renamed from FRAME_WINDOW_WIDTH_ARG. (WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_COLUMN): Remove unused macro. (WINDOW_VERTICAL_SCROLL_BAR_HEIGHT): Remove unused macro. (FRAME_LINE_HEIGHT): Renamed from CANON_Y_UNIT. Unconditionally return line_height member (it now has proper value also for non-window frames). (FRAME_COLUMN_WIDTH): Renamed from CANON_X_UNIT. Unconditionally return new column_width member (rather than the default font width). (FRAME_FRINGE_COLS, FRAME_LEFT_FRINGE_WIDTH) (FRAME_RIGHT_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_X_... and moved from x/w32/macterm.h files. Unconditionally return corresponding member of frame structure (they now have proper values also for non-window frames). (FRAME_TOTAL_FRINGE_WIDTH): Renamed from FRAME_FRINGE_WIDTH. Calculate return value from left and right widths. (FRAME_INTERNAL_BORDER_WIDTH): Unconditionally return internal_border_width member (has proper value for non-window frame). (FRAME_PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X): Renamed from PIXEL_X_FROM_CANON_X. (FRAME_PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y): Renamed from PIXEL_Y_FROM_CANON_Y. (FRAME_CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CANON_X_FROM_PIXEL_X. (FRAME_CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CANON_Y_FROM_PIXEL_Y. (FRAME_LINE_TO_PIXEL_Y): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_ROW, consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h. (FRAME_COL_TO_PIXEL_X): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_COL, consolidated from xterm.h, macterm.h, and w32term.h. (FRAME_TEXT_COLS_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_TEXT_LINES_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT): Renamed from CHAR_TO_PIXEL_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_Y_TO_LINE): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_ROW consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_X_TO_COL): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_COL consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_WIDTH_TO_TEXT_COLS): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_WIDTH consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h. (FRAME_PIXEL_HEIGHT_TO_TEXT_LINES): Renamed from PIXEL_TO_CHAR_HEIGHT consolidated from x/mac/w32term.h.

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.