view etc/future-bug @ 94938:5752d7154afc

Throughout the file, delete all USE_FONT_BACKEND conditionals. Don't check enable_font_backend. Delete all codes used only when USE_FONT_BACKEND is not defined. Use FONT_XXX_NAME_NUMERIC instead of face_numeric_xxx. (QCfoundry, QCadstyle, QCregistry, QCspacing, QCsize, QCavgwidth) (Qp): Extern them. (clear_font_table, load_face_font, xlfd_lookup_field_contents): Deleted. (struct font_name): Deleted. (xlfd_numeric_value, xlfd_symbolic_value): Deleted. (compare_fonts_by_sort_order): New function. (xlfd_numeric_slant, xlfd_symbolic_slant, xlfd_numeric_weight) (xlfd_symbolic_weight, xlfd_numeric_swidth, xlfd_symbolic_swidth): Deleted. (Fx_family_fonts): Use font_list_entities, and sort fonts by compare_fonts_by_sort_order. (Fx_font_family_list): Call Ffont_family_list. (face_numeric_value, face_numeric_weight, face_numeric_slant) (face_numeric_swidth, face_symbolic_value, face_symbolic_weight) (face_symbolic_slant, face_symbolic_swidth) (split_font_name_into_vector, build_font_name_from_vector) (xlfd_fixed_p, xlfd_point_size, pixel_point_size) (font_rescale_ratio, split_font_name, build_font_name) (free_font_names, sort_fonts, x_face_list_fonts) (face_font_available_p, sorted_font_list, cmp_font_names) (font_list_1, concat_font_list, font_list, remove_duplicates): Deleted. (Fx_list_fonts): Use Ffont_list. (LFACE_AVGWIDTH): Deleted. (check_lface_attrs): Don't check LFACE_AVGWIDTH. Check LFACE_FONT by FONTP. (lface_fully_specified_p): Don't check LFACE_AVGWIDTH. (set_lface_from_font_name): Delete it. (set_lface_from_font): Renamed from set_lface_from_font_and_fontset. Caller changed. Don't set LFACE_AVGWIDTH. Use FONT_XXX_FOR_FACE to get a symbol suitable for face. (merge_face_vectors): Copy font-spec if necessary. Clear properties of the font-spec if necessary. (merge_face_ref): Clear properties of the font-spec if necessary. (Finternal_set_lisp_face_attribute): Likewise. (set_font_frame_param): Use font_load_for_lface to load a font-object, and call Fmodify_frame_parameters with it. (x_update_menu_appearance): Don't check LFACE_AVGWIDTH. Get XLFD font name by Ffont_xlfd_name. (Finternal_lisp_face_attribute_values): Don't check QCweight, QCslant, and QCwidth. (Fface_font): Get a font name from font->props[FONT_NAME_INDEX]. (lface_same_font_attributes_p): Don't check LFACE_AVGWIDTH. Compare fonts by EQ. (lookup_non_ascii_face): Deleted. (face_for_font): The 2nd argument changed. (x_supports_face_attributes_p): Don't check LFACE_AVGWIDTH. Check atomic font properties by case insensitive. (realize_non_ascii_face): Set face->overstrike correctly. (realize_x_face): Likewise. Check if LFACE_FONT is a font_object. (dump_realized_face): Get font name from font->props[FONT_NAME_INDEX]. Don't print font_info_id.

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.