view etc/future-bug @ 107594:40b49fa464cf

Retrospective commit from 2009-10-04. Continue working on determining paragraph's base direction. bidi.c (bidi_at_paragraph_end): Check for paragraph-start if paragraph-separate failed to match. Return the length of the matched separator. (bidi_line_init): New function. (bidi_paragraph_init): Use bidi_line_init. Do nothing if in the middle of a paragraph-separate sequence. Don't override existing paragraph direction if no strong characters found in this paragraph. Set separator_limit according to what bidi_at_paragraph_end returns. Reset new_paragraph flag when a new paragraph is found. (bidi_init_it): Reset separator_limit. dispextern.h (struct bidi_it): New member separator_limit. bidi.c (bidi_find_paragraph_start): Return the byte position of the paragraph beginning. xdisp.c (set_iterator_to_next): Call bidi_paragraph_init if the new_paragraph flag is set in the bidi iterator. bidi.c (bidi_at_paragraph_end, bidi_find_paragraph_start): Use the buffer-local value of paragraph-start and paragraph-separate.

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.