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(defgroup grep): Doc fix. (grep-auto-highlight): Remove. (grep-template): New defcustom. (grep-find-template): Rename from grep-tree-template. (grep-files-aliases): Rename from grep-tree-files-aliases. Remove "all" alias, add "l" alias. (grep-tree-ignore-case, grep-tree-ignore-CVS-directories): Remove. (grep-find-ignored-directories): New defcustom to replace grep-tree-ignore-CVS-directories, to facilitate ignoring subdirectories for multiple version control systems. (grep-mode-map): Add Recursive grep item to GREP menu. (grep-regexp-history, grep-files-history): New defvars. (grep-probe): New helper function. (grep-compute-defaults): Use it to simplify code. Adapt to name changes. Use `.' as base in grep-find-template rather than <D>. (grep): Remove superfluous highlight-regexp arg. Fix doc. Call grep-compute-defaults unconditionally. (grep-expand-keywords): New defconst. (grep-expand-template): Rename from grep-expand-command-macros. Simplify via grep-expand-keywords. Look at case-fold-search instead of grep-tree-ignore-case to add -i option. Bind case-fold-search to nil while matching keywords. (grep-tree-last-regexp, grep-tree-last-files): Remove. (grep-read-regexp, grep-read-files): New helper functions. (rgrep): Rename from grep-tree. Rework to use proper histories. Adapt to changes in defcustoms and functions above. (lgrep): New command, as grep, but using same interactive api as rgrep.

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.