view etc/future-bug @ 28092:ce3bf4da00a9

(vga_installed): New function, code moved from dos_set_window_size. (Qbar, Qcursor_type, outside_cursor): New variables. (syms_of_msdos): Intern and staticpro them. (dos_ttraw) [__DJGPP__ >= 2, !HAVE_X_WINDOWS]: Save the cursor shape used outside Emacs when called for the first time. (dos_ttcooked) [__DJGPP__ >= 2, !HAVE_X_WINDOWS]: Restore the cursor shape used outside Emacs. (msdos_set_cursor_shape, IT_set_cursor_type): New functions. (IT_frame_up_to_date): Call IT_set_cursor_type, in case the cursor type has changed. (IT_set_frame_parameters): Call IT_set_cursor_type if the frame parameters specify the cursor. Make qreverse a global variable (renamed to Qreverse).

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.