From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:55:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87r21yoiqj.fsf@gnus.org> References: <4AE77C59.5060106@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <4AEAE7F8.6010609@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <83mui2j2fn.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="265214"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: eisinger@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 4816@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 23 13:56:26 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxc-0016l6-0r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:56:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxT-0001E3-EB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:56:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxH-0001Dx-Js for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxG-0001Dj-HH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxF-0001DL-Ti for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:56:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUxF-0006H1-Pn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:56:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:56:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 4816 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 4816-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B4816.157451371924055 (code B ref 4816); Sat, 23 Nov 2019 12:56:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 4816) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Nov 2019 12:55:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55910 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUwX-0006Fo-8f for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:55:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:35594) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUwS-0006FK-AJ for 4816@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iYUwH-0005QC-Cb; Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:55:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83mui2j2fn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 27 Jun 2019 21:41:48 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:172287 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> > FWIW, in the past users explicitly expressed annoyance by these >> > questions. The request was to use the "native" encoding silently. By >> > introducing back this question, we are restoring that annoyance. >> >> Perhaps it's time to make a decision now -- to not add a change like this? > > I'm still not convinced we need this. But if people think otherwise, > we could have an opt-in feature to ask such questions. There was no response to this, so I'm guessing there wasn't much enthusiasm for adding prompting like this, so I'm re-closing this bug report. And as you say: > This is a rare use case. It's possible that just saying > > (prefer-coding-system 'latin-1) > > is all that's needed to get the required prompt back. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no