view etc/future-bug @ 76091:746a3424769c

(mac_display_info_for_display): Remove function. (mac_flush_display_optional) [USE_CG_DRAWING]: New function. (x_redisplay_interface) [USE_CG_DRAWING]: Set it as handler for flush_display_optional. [USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS] (x_scroll_bar_handle_press): New argument MOUSE_POS. All uses changed. Set bar->dragging to negative integer if scroll bar handle is pressed. [USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS] (x_scroll_bar_handle_release): Negative bar->dragging means scroll bar handle is not dragged. [USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS] (x_scroll_bar_handle_drag): Get initial offset of scroll bar handle from negative bar->dragging. (XTread_socket) [USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS]: Modifiers for scroll bar click is compared against mapped one. Set down/up_modifier for scroll bar click event with control key.

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.