view etc/future-bug @ 111986:faa4a1c986c6

Merge changes made in Gnus trunk. nnimap.el (nnimap-wait-for-response): Always look (at least) at the previous line. nnimap.el (nnimap-quirk): New function. (nnimap-retrieve-group-data-early): Use it. (nnimap-quirks): New alist. gnus.texi (Foreign Groups): Added clarification of foreign groups. gnus-sum.el (gnus-summary-push-marks-to-backend): Fix the logic for copying read-ness to the backends. gnus-group.el (gnus-group-kill-group): Notify the backend that the group has been killed. (gnus-group-yank-group): Ditto. gnus-start.el (gnus-subscribe-newsgroup): Notify the backend. nnir.el: Improve customizations. gnus.texi (Archived Messages): Removed outdated comment and text. nnfolder.el (nnfolder-save-all-buffers): Refactor out into its own function. (nnfolder-request-expire-articles): Save all the buffers after doing expiry. nnmail.el (nnmail-expiry-target-group): Revert the "all articles are the last article", since that led to serious performance regressions when expiring nnml groups. gnus-html.el (gnus-html-schedule-image-fetching): Make sure the HTML fetching stops when Gnus exits. gnus-srvr.el: Avoid passing nil regexp argument to delete-matching-lines. auth-source.el (auth-source-gpg-encrypt-to): New variable to set the list of recipient keys, or use symmetric encryption if not a list. (auth-source-create): Use it to make `epa-file-encrypt-to' local for an EPA override, replacing the call to `netrc-store-data'.

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.