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* progmodes/ada-mode.el: Update copyright notice. Synchronize with GNAT release 3.15a1. Do not attempt to load ada-support, which is only for compatibility with older Emacs versions, and is not needed for Emacs 21. (ada-continuation-indent): New variable. New contextual menu: "List local reference", faster than "List References". (ada-mode): New alignment rules provided by S. Leake. (ada-mode): Add support for which-function-mode. Fix various calls to count-lines, that didn't work correctly when the buffer was narrowed. (ada-get-current-indent): Fix indentation of named parameter lists and nested boolean expressions. (ada-indent-on-previous-lines): Fix indentation of labels. (ada-search-prev-end-stmt): Fix searching of the previous end-statement, specially with regards to nested subprograms. (comment-region advice): Initially disabled, for better compatibility with other modes. (ada-fill-comment-paragraph): Fixed (no longer worked with Emacs 21). * progmodes/ada-xref.el: Update copyright notice. (ada-xref-create-ali): The default is now not to create automatically the ALI files by compiling the unit, since this isn't always reliable and requires an up-to-date project file. (ada-prj-default-comp-cmd): No longer use gcc directly to compile a file, but use gnatmake instead, since this gives access to the GNAT project files. (ada-xref-search-with-egrep): New variable, suggested by P. Waroquiers. (ada-load-project-hook): New variable, for support of GNAT project files. (ada-update-project-menu): Fix the detection of the project file name. (ada-add-keymap): Change key binding for ada-find-file, that conflicted with another binding in ada-mode.el. (ada-add-menu): New menu "List Local References", to list the reference to the entity only in the current file, instead of looking in the whole project. Much faster. (ada-find-references): New parameters arg and local-only. (ada-find-any-references): New parameters local-only and append. (ada-goto-declaration): Fix handling of predefined entities in xref. (ada-get-all-references): Updated to the new xref format in GNAT 3.15, still compatible with GNAT 3.14 of course. Fix various calls to count-lines, that didn't work correctly when the buffer was narrowed.

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.