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(bibtex-sort-entry-class) (bibtex-comment-start): Use defcustom. (bibtex-entry-field-alist): Use nil if initial content of the field is undefined. Fix docstring. (bibtex-parse-keys-timeout, bibtex-autokey-additional-names) (bibtex-generate-autokey, bibtex-parse-buffers-stealthily) (bibtex-mode, bibtex-field-list, bibtex-entry-updat) (bibtex-autofill-entry, bibtex-entry-index, bibtex-next-field): Fix docstring. (bibtex-autokey-title-terminators): Use only one regexp. (bibtex-string-maybe-empty-head): New variable. (bibtex-remove-delimiters-string): New function. (bibtex-text-in-field-bounds, bibtex-text-in-string): Use bibtex-remove-delimiters-string. (bibtex-progress-message, bibtex-field-left-delimiter) (bibtex-field-right-delimiter, bibtex-entry-left-delimiter) (bibtex-entry-right-delimiter, bibtex-search-entry): Use eq. (bibtex-insert-kill): Rename from `bibtex-insert-current-kill'. Simplify. (bibtex-format-entry): Use save-excursion for inherited booktitle. Use eq and bibtex-remove-delimiters-string. For end markers use insertion type so that marker stays after inserted text. (bibtex-autokey-get-names): Return empty string if name is missing. (bibtex-autokey-demangle-name): Call bibtex-autokey-abbrev before calling bibtex-autokey-name-case-convert. (bibtex-autokey-demangle-title): Call bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert. Remove call to bibtex-autokey-titleword-case-convert from bibtex-autokey-get-title. (bibtex-global-key-alist, bibtex-read-string-key): New functions. (bibtex-read-key): New optional arg global. (bibtex-files-expand): New optional arg force. (bibtex-complete-string-cleanup): Expansion of abbrev can be absent. (bibtex-complete-crossref-cleanup): Rename from bibtex-complete-key-cleanup. Simplify code. (bibtex-copy-summary-as-kill): Remove arg key. Operate on current entry. Use looking-at. (bibtex-button): Add docstring. (bibtex-entry): Simplify. (bibtex-make-field): Replace optional arg called-by-yank with more specific args move and interactive. (bibtex-end-of-entry): Use forward-sexp. (bibtex-find-entry-globally): Remove. (bibtex-find-crossref): Allow for crossref key located in other buffer. Bound to C-c C-x. (bibtex-find-entry): New optional args global and display. (bibtex-find-text): Fix docstring. Remove arg as-if-interactive. (bibtex-validate): Use arg force of bibtex-files-expand. (bibtex-clean-entry): Bugfix, clean string entries properly. Always keep point at beginning of entry. (bibtex-complete): Bugfix. Handle string entries properly. Call cleanup functions only if needed. (bibtex-String): Use bibtex-read-string-key. (bibtex-url): Use bibtex-remove-delimiters-string. Do not alter case of replacement text.

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.