view etc/future-bug @ 66821:8139e472d52b

(apropos-match-face): Doc fix. (apropos-sort-by-scores): Add new choice `verbose'. (apropos-documentation-sort-by-scores): New defcustom. (apropos-pattern): Now contains the pattern entered by the user. (apropos-pattern-quoted): New defvar. (apropos-regexp): New defvar, containing the regexp corresponding to apropos-pattern. (apropos-all-words-regexp): Renamed from apropos-all-regexp. (apropos-read-pattern): New defun. Use it to read pattern arg in interactive calls; returns list of words for a word list, and string for a regexp. (apropos-parse-pattern): Renamed from apropos-rewrite-regexp. Now parses a list of words or regexp as returned by apropos-read-pattern. (apropos-calc-scores): Return nil if apropos-regexp doesn't match. (apropos-score-doc): Return a very high score if the string entered by the user matches literally. (apropos-variable): Doc fix. Use apropos-read-pattern. (apropos-command): Doc fix. Use apropos-read-pattern and apropos-parse-pattern. Call apropos-print with nosubst=t. (apropos, apropos-value): Doc fix. Use apropos-read-pattern and apropos-parse-pattern. (apropos-documentation): Doc fix. Use apropos-read-pattern and apropos-parse-pattern. Locally bind apropos-sort-by-scores to apropos-documentation-sort-by-scores. Call apropos-print with nosubst=t. (apropos-documentation-internal): Pass doc string through substitute-key-definition before adding text properties. Highlight substring matching literal user input if possible. (apropos-documentation-check-doc-file): Remove locals beg and end. Fix calculation of score (as added twice). Pass doc string through substitute-key-definition before adding text properties. (apropos-documentation-check-elc-file): Pass doc string through substitute-key-definition before adding text properties. Highlight substring matching literal user input if possible. (apropos-print): Add new arg NOSUBST; if set, command and variable doc strings have already been passed through substitute-key-definition. Add code to handle apropos-accumulator items without score element for backwards compatibility (e.g. with woman package). Only show scores if apropos-sort-by-scores is `verbose'.

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.