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Version 2.0.34 (of Tramp) released. (tramp-handle-file-symlink-p): If target of symlink is absolute, return a Tramp filename. (Ie, return "/user@host:/target" instead of "/target".) (tramp-handle-file-truename): Deal with new return value from `file-symlink-p'. (tramp-handle-expand-file-name): Make default method explicit in file name. (tramp-unified-filenames): Move to an earlier spot in the file. (top-level): If tramp-unified-filenames is set and we're running on XEmacs, load tramp-efs. (tramp-wait-for-shell-prompt, tramp-barf-if-no-shell-prompt): New functions, used by tramp-send-command-internal. (tramp-open-connection-setup-interactive-shell): Simplify using `tramp-send-command-internal'. (tramp-send-command-internal): New function. (tramp-methods): New entries "remsh" and "remcp" are like "rsh" and "rcp" but invoke "remsh" instead of "rsh". This is useful on Cray systems, for instance. Unify tramp-rsh-program, tramp-telnet-program, tramp-su-program into tramp-login-program. Likewise with tramp-login-args, tramp-copy-program, tramp-copy-args, tramp-copy-keep-date-arg. Users changed. New method plink1; like plink but pass "-1" to force protocol version 1. (tramp-default-method): Use plink as the default on machines where the plink program is present. (tramp-completion-file-name-handler): Add safe-magic property. (tramp-shell-prompt-pattern): Allow ANSI escapes at end of prompt. (ANSI escapes elsewhere in the prompt are recognized properly already.)
author Kai Großjohann <kgrossjo@eu.uu.net>
date Sat, 24 May 2003 14:10:15 +0000
parents 23a1cea22d13
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Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2199 21:03:50 -0600
From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@floss.cyclic.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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   <kfogel@red-bean.com>


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.