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Numerous bugfixes and small improvements. lisp/bindings.el (mode-line-frame-identification): Use %T, not %F. lisp/faces.el (x-create-frame-with-faces): Added frame-creation-function parameter. (tty-create-frame-with-faces): Ditto. lisp/frame.el (frame-creation-function): Make it frame-local. (select-frame-set-input-focus): Use the window-system function, not the variable. lisp/server.el (server-handle-delete-tty): Make sure the client process is removed from server-clients after the delete-process call. It seems that the sentinel is not called. Added docs. (server-process-filter): Immediately add the client to server-clients when a new termcap frame is created. Fixed a case of `not' called with two parameters. Ignore errors while sending the evaluation result back to the client. (server-kill-buffer-query-function): Don't ask the user if the server process is already dead. lisp/term/x-win.el: Don't change mode-line-frame-identification. src/buffer.c (syms_of_buffer): Added %T to the docs of mode-line-format. src/dispnew.c (init_display): Increment the reference count of the new termcap display. src/frame.c (make_terminal_frame): Set the old top frame's visibility to `obscured'. (Fmake_terminal_frame): Look at the current termcap display's name, not just the similar frame parameter. Try to get the type from the current display first, and only then from Vdefault_frame_alist. src/keyboard.c (handle_interrupt): New function to separate the signal handling from C-g processing. (interrupt_signal): Call handle_interrupt to do the real work. (kbd_buffer_store_event): Use handle_interrupt instead of interrupt_signal. (cmd_error_internal): Use FRAME_INITIAL_P instead of ugly hacks. src/termhooks.h (initial_display): New declaration. src/xdisp.c (decode_mode_spec): Added '%T' (termcap-only frame name). git-archimport-id: [e-mail]--2004/emacs--multi-tty--0--patch-49

Iso-Functional Type Contour


This is a term coined to describe "column int->float" change approach, and can
be used whenever low-level types need to change (hopefully not often!) but the
meanings of the values (whose type has changed) do not.

The premise is that changing a low-level type potentially means lots of code
needs to be changed as well, and the question is how to do this incrementally,
which is the preferred way to change things.

Say LOW and HIGH are C functions:

  int LOW (void) { return 1; }
  void HIGH (void) { int value = LOW (); }

We want to convert LOW to return float, so we cast HIGH usage:

  float LOW (void) { return 1.0; }
  void HIGH (void) { int value = (int) LOW (); }  /* iftc */

The comment /* iftc */ is used to mark this type of casting to differentiate
it from other casting.  We commit the changes and can now go about modifying
LOW and HIGH separately.  When HIGH is ready to handle the type change, the
cast can be removed.

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