view etc/future-bug @ 53556:68254590be55

Update copyright and commentary. (appt-issue-message): Delete (see appt-activate). (appt-visible, appt-msg-window): Make obsolete, in favour of appt-display-format. (appt-display-mode-line, appt-display-duration) (appt-display-diary, appt-time-msg-list, appt-mode-string) (appt-prev-comp-time, appt-display-count, appt-timer) (appt-convert-time): Doc change. (appt-disp-window-function, appt-delete-window-function): Use defcustom rather than defvar. (appt-display-format): New variable. (appt-display-message): New function with display code from appt-check. (appt-check): Add optional FORCE argument. Doc change. Add appt-make-list to diary-hook if displaying diary. Remove checking of view-diary-entries-initially. Message display section removed to new function appt-display-message. (appt-display-window): Doc change. Remove unused internal var this-buffer. Do not beep, since appt-display-message does that. (appt-make-list): Doc change. Use caar. (appt-sort-list): Simplify by using builtin sort function. (appt-update-list): New function for updating appts when diary is saved. (appt-activate): New autoloaded function to toggle package functionality.

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.