[emacs-w3m:13864] Re: Emergency hack to get old programs work with new Emacs time functions

Katsumi Yamaoka <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:20:00 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.w3m
Organization Emacsen advocacy group
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In [emacs-w3m:13863]
On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:13:31 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> In the latest Emacs build from git, etc/NEWS says:
> ,----
>| ** current-time and related functions now yield (TICKS . HZ) timestamps.
>| Previously they yielded timestamps of the forms (HI LO US PS), (HI LO
>| US) or (HI LO), which were less regular and less efficient and which
>| lacked information about clock resolution.  This long-planned change
>| was documented in Emacs 27.  To convert a timestamp X to the old
>| 4-element list form, you can use (time-convert X 'list).
> `----
> Because of this, not only emacs-w3m (and shimbun) but also some
> other programs got not to work.
> Here are quick hacks to make those programs work:

Now those hacks should have gotten unnecessary as I worked in
the git master.  But let me know if you still get `wrong-type-
argument' errors when running emacs-w3m on the latest Emacs.

Regards,