view etc/future-bug @ 26114:c19849fe02b5

Doc fix, duplex and setpagedevice configuration. (ps-print-version): New version number (4.2). (ps-spool-config, ps-spool-tumble): New vars. (ps-print-prologue-1): Changed to defconst, adjust PostScript programming, new PostScript procedure to handle errors. (ps-print-prologue-2): Changed to defconst. (ps-print-duplex-feature): New const: duplex and tumble setting. (ps-setup, ps-begin-file): Fix funs. (ps-boolean-capitalized): New fun. Doc fix, n-up printing. (ps-print-version): New version number (5.0). (ps-page-dimensions-database): Added document media. (ps-n-up-printing, ps-n-up-margin, ps-n-up-border-p, ps-n-up-filling) (ps-page-order, ps-printing-region-p): New vars. (ps-n-up-printing, ps-n-up-filling, ps-header-sheet, ps-end-job): New funs. (ps-page-dimensions-get-media, ps-n-up-landscape, ps-n-up-lines) (ps-n-up-columns, ps-n-up-missing, ps-n-up-xcolumn, ps-n-up-ycolumn) (ps-n-up-xline, ps-n-up-yline, ps-n-up-repeat, ps-n-up-end) (ps-n-up-xstart, ps-n-up-ystart): New macros. (ps-print-begin-sheet-hook): New hook. (ps-boundingbox-re, ps-n-up-database, ps-n-up-filling-database): New const. (ps-setup, ps-begin-file, ps-get-buffer-name, ps-begin-job) (ps-end-file, ps-dummy-page, ps-generate): Fix funs. (ps-print-prologue-1): Adjust PostScript programming for n-up printing. (ps-count-lines): Changed to defun. (ps-header-page): Changed to defsubst, fix fun. (ps-printing-region): Doc fix, adjust programming code. (ps-output-boolean, ps-background-pages, ps-background-text) (ps-background-image, ps-background, ps-get-boundingbox): Adjust programming code. Doc fix, better customization. (ps-print-region-function, ps-number-of-columns, ps-spool-tumble) (ps-print-color-p, ps-printing-region-p, ps-n-up-database) (ps-end-file): Doc fix. (ps-setup, ps-begin-file): Fun fix. (postscript): New group. (ps-zebra-gray, ps-banner-page-when-duplexing): New vars. (ps-print-prologue-1): Adjust PostScript programming. (ps-print): Adjust group hierarchy. (ps-print-n-up, ps-print-zebra, ps-print-background, ps-print-printer) (ps-print-page): New subgroups. (ps-print-prologue-header, ps-printer-name, ps-lpr-command) (ps-lpr-switches, ps-page-dimensions-database, ps-paper-type) (ps-landscape-mode, ps-print-control-characters, ps-n-up-printing) (ps-n-up-margin, ps-n-up-border-p, ps-n-up-filling, ps-zebra-stripes) (ps-zebra-stripe-height, ps-print-background-image) (ps-print-background-text, ps-spool-config): Adjust customization. (dos-ps-printer): Definition eliminated.

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.