From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 36573@debbugs.gnu.org, rswarbrick@gmail.com
Subject: bug#36573: 26.1; bufferpos-to-filepos assumes coding-system-eol-type gives integer
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:08:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmuidd56.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s16n7qc.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:54:51 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: rswarbrick@gmail.com, 36573@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:54:51 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I think, since these cases are very rare, it should be okay to assume
> > the -unix EOL type when this happens, and document that if this is the
> > case, the result could be an approximation even if the exact result
> > was requested.
>
> It is a rare odd corner case, but I think erroring out is a better
> solution here than having to document this. :-) `exact' meaning
> "exact" is easier conceptually.
Fine with me, but I think we will still need to say in the doc string
something like
It is an error to request the `exact' method when the buffer's EOL
format is not yet decided.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 10:52 bug#36573: 26.1; bufferpos-to-filepos assumes coding-system-eol-type gives integer Rupert Swarbrick
2019-07-10 14:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-12 15:14 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2019-07-12 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-11 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-12 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-12 12:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-12 13:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-08-13 11:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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