view etc/future-bug @ 51209:880539128b51

Make (many) trivial substitutions for renamed and new macros in dispextern.h, frame.h and window.h. (window_box_width): Adapt to per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Note that returned value is no longer guaranteed to be a whole multiple of the frame column width, since per-window fringes may now be any width. (window_box_left_offset): New function like window_box_left, but value is relative to left border of window (rather than frame). (window_box_right_offset): New function like window_box_right, but value is relative to left border of window. (window_box_left): Adapt to per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Simplify by using WINDOW_LEFT_EDGE_X and window_box_left_offset. (window_box): Allow null args for unnecessary return values; change/simplify relevant callers. (x_y_to_hpos_vpos): Adapt to per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Use window_box_left_offset and window_box_right_offset (get_glyph_string_clip_rect): Adapt to per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Use WINDOW_LEFT_EDGE_X and WINDOW_TOTAL_WIDTH. (draw_fringe_bitmap): Rework to handle per-window fringes and new fringe vs. display margin position. (hscroll_window_tree): Use window_box_width instead of window_box. (redisplay_window): Adapt to per-window scroll bars. (draw_glyphs): Rework to handle per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Use WINDOW_LEFT_EDGE_X, WINDOW_TOTAL_WIDTH, and window_box_left. (x_clear_end_of_line): Adapt to per-window fringes and scroll bars, and new fringe vs. display margin position. Fix bug which increased total width of full_width rows by width of scroll bars although window's total width already includes that. (x_fix_overlapping_area): Simplify using window_box_left_offset. (expose_area): Simplify using window_box_left_offset. (x_draw_vertical_border): Handle per-window scroll bar settings, mixing windows with left, right and no scroll bars.

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.