view etc/future-bug @ 66518:7cc22b3f2300

* mh-comp.el (mh-annotate-msg): Use new variable mh-scan-field-destination-offset rather than hard-coding 1. * mh-customize.el (mh-interpret-number-as-range-flag): Add * to docstring. (mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag-check, mh-scan-format-file-check): New functions to check input for mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag and mh-scan-format-file respectively. (mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag, mh-scan-format-file): Docstring fixes, add :set. * mh-e.el: (mh-scan-field-destination-offset): New variable. The destination is the -, t, b, c, or n character for Replied, To, cc, Bcc, or Newsgroups respectively. (mh-make-folder, mh-regenerate-headers, mh-generate-new-cmd-note) Call new function mh-msg-num-width-to-column to make leap between width and column more explicit. (mh-msg-num-width-to-column): New function that steals logic from old mh-set-cmd-note. Also, throw error if mh-scan-format-file isn't t since we can't adapt the scan lines in this case. (mh-set-cmd-note): Now just simply sets mh-cmd-note which will make the documentation more clear. (mh-generate-new-cmd-note): Docstring fix--mh-cmd-note is a column, not a width. (mh-add-sequence-notation, mh-remove-sequence-notation): Use new variable mh-scan-field-destination-offset rather than hard-coding 1. * mh-utils.el (mh-cmd-note) Synced docstring with manual. (mh-notate): Use new variable mh-scan-field-destination-offset rather than hard-coding 1. (mh-message-number-width): Rename to mh-msg-num-width to be consistent with mh-get-msg-num and mh-msg-num-width-to-column.

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.