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Fix and document display of glyphless characters. src/xdisp.c (set_cursor_from_row): Fix cursor positioning on zero-width characters. (syms_of_xdisp) <glyphless-char-display>: Doc fix. src/.gdbinit (pgx): Adapt to latest changes in `struct glyph'. src/w32term.c (x_draw_glyphless_glyph_string_foreground): Draw the box before drawing the glyphs inside it. src/dispextern.h (enum glyphless_display_method): Rename GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_HEXA_CODE to GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_HEX_CODE. All users changed. src/term.c (append_glyphless_glyph, produce_glyphless_glyph): Fix comments. (produce_glyphless_glyph): Enclose "U+nnnn" and "empty box" whitespace in "[]", to simulate a box. Don't use uninitialized variable `width'. lisp/international/characters.el (glyphless-char-display-control): Renamed from glyphless-char-control; all users changed. Doc fix. Signal an error if display method is not one of the recognized symbols. doc/emacs/rmail.texi (Rmail Coding): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. doc/emacs/mule.texi (Language Environments, Fontsets): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. doc/emacs/display.texi (Text Display): Document display of glyphless characters. doc/lispref/display.texi (Usual Display): Characters with no fonts are not necessarily displayed as empty boxes. etc/NEWS: Document display of glyphless characters.

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.