view etc/future-bug @ 94926:70a8f8c84456

Include <strings.h>. (enable_font_backend): Delete it. (Qfont_spec, Qfont_entity, Qfont_object): New variables. (CHECK_VALIDATE_FONT_SPEC): Delete it. (PT_PER_INCH, POINT_TO_PIXEL, PIXEL_TO_POINT): Moved to font.h. (null_string): Delete it. (null_vector): Make it static. (font_family_alist): Delete it. (Qnormal): Extern it. (QCextra, QClanguage): Delete it. (QClang, QCavgwidth, QCfont_entity, QCfc_unknown_spec): New variables. (font_make_spec, font_make_entity, font_make_object) (font_intern_prop): Renamed from intern_downcase. Don't downcase the string. Callers changed. (font_pixel_size): Adjusted for the format change of font-related objects. (prop_name_to_numeric, prop_numeric_to_name): Delete them. (font_style_to_value, font_style_symbolic): New function. (build_font_family_alist): Delete it. (font_registry_charsets): Use Fassoc_string instead of assq_no_quit. (font_prop_validate_symbol): Don't return null_string. (font_prop_validate_style): Adjusted for the change of style-related values in a font vector. (font_property_table): Delete entries for QClangauge and QCantialias, add entries for QCavgwidth. (get_font_prop_index): Delete the 2nd argument FROM. (font_prop_validate): Arguments changed. (font_put_extra): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (font_expand_wildcards, font_parse_xlfd, font_unparse_xlfd) (font_parse_fcname, font_unparse_fcname) (font_prepare_composition): Likewise. (font_parse_family_registry): Renamed from font_merge_old_spec. (otf_open): Delete the 1st arg entity. (font_otf_capability): Adjusted for the above change. (font_score): New arg alternate_families. Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (font_sort_entites): New arg best_only. (font_symbolic_weight, font_symbolic_slant, font_symbolic_width): Delete them. (font_match_p): Check alternate families. (font_find_object): Delete it. (font_check_object): New function. (font_clear_cache): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (font_delete_unmatched): New arg. (font_list_entities): Call font_driver->list with a spec that doesn't specify style-related properties. (font_matching_entity): Arguments changed. Caller changed. (font_open_entity): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (font_close_object, font_has_char, font_encode_char) (font_get_name, font_get_spec): Likewise. (font_spec_from_name, font_clear_prop, font_update_lface): New functions. (font_find_for_lface, font_open_for_lface, font_load_for_lface): (font_prepare_for_face, font_done_for_face, font_open_by_name) (font_at): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (font_range): New function. (Ffontp, Ffont_spec, Ffont_get, Ffont_put, Flist_fonts) (Ffont_xlfd_name): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (Fcopy_font_spec, Fmerge_font_spec): New function. (Ffont_family_list): Renamed from list-families. (Finternal_set_font_style_table): Arguments changed. (Ffont_fill_gstring, Ffont_shape_text, Fopen_font) (Ffont_drive_otf, Fquery_font, Ffont_match_p): Adjusted for the change of font-related objects. (syms_of_font): Delete "ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND". DEFSYM new symboles.

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.