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Handle system default font and changing font parameters. * xterm.h (struct x_display_info): Add atoms and Window for xsettings. * xterm.c (handle_one_xevent): Call xft_settings_event for ClientMessage, PropertyNotify and DestroyNotify. (x_term_init): If we have XFT, get DPI from Xft.dpi. Call xsettings_initialize. * xftfont.c (xftfont_fix_match): New function. (xftfont_open): Call XftDefaultSubstitute before XftFontMatch. Call xftfont_fix_match after XftFontMatch. * xfont.c (xfont_driver): Initialize all members. * xfns.c (x_default_font_parameter): Try font from Ffont_get_system_font. Do not get font from x_default_parameter if we got one from Ffont_get_system_font. (Fx_select_font): Get the defaut font name from :name of FRAME_FONT (f). * w32font.c (w32font_driver): Initialize all members. * termhooks.h (enum event_kind): CONFIG_CHANGED_EVENT is new. * lisp.h: Declare syms_of_xsettings. * keyboard.c (kbd_buffer_get_event, make_lispy_event): Handle CONFIG_CHANGED_EVENT. * ftfont.c (ftfont_filter_properties): New function. * frame.c (x_set_font): Remove unused variable lval. * font.h (struct font_driver): filter_properties is new. * font.c (font_put_extra): Don't return if val is nil, it means boolean option is off. (font_parse_fcname): Collect all extra properties in extra_props and call filter_properties for all drivers with extra_props and font as parameter. (font_open_entity): Do not use cache, it does not pick up new fontconfig settings like hinting. (font_load_for_lface): If spec had a name in it, store it in entity. * emacs.c (main): Call syms_of_xsettings * config.in: HAVE_GCONF is new. * Makefile.in (GCONF_CFLAGS, GCONF_LIBS): New variables for HAVE_GCONF. xsettings.o is new. * menu-bar.el: Put "Use system font" in Option-menu. * loadup.el: If feature system-font-setting or font-render-setting is there, load font-setting. * Makefile.in (ELCFILES): font-settings.el is new. * font-setting.el: New file. * NEWS: Mention dynamic font changes (font-use-system-font). * configure.in: New option: --with(out)-gconf. Set HAVE_GCONF if we find gconf.

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.