From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25626@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25626: 25.1; doc of `bufferpos-to-filepos' for type `exact'
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 10:58:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcc4886f-9b9b-4ab4-bc05-51cdbff5e639@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tw887ahx.fsf@gnu.org>
> > ‘exact’, in which case we may end up re-(en/de)coding a large
> > part of the file/buffer.
> >
> > And (elisp) `Text Representations' says this:
> >
> > ‘exact’
> > The result must be accurate. The function may need to encode
> > and decode a large part of the buffer.
> >
> > If I understand the code right, I think both of these are misleading.
> > They can give the impression that the text in the region can have its
> > encoding changed in its buffer.
>
> I don't understand how you get that impression. You do know that
> encoding text and then decoding it back produces the same text as was
> there originally, right?
>
> This text simply says that this option might be computationally
> expensive.
If that's the intent then say that. And I think it is the
intent, hence this bug: please just say that.
Saying "we may end up re-(en/de)coding" and "may need to
encode and decode" does _not_ specify that the text is encoded
_and then_ decoded back again, resulting in no change to the
buffer. And the former means re-encode OR re-decode, not AND.)
And in fact, IIUC, the text is encoded to a separate buffer
(arg DESTINATION of `encode-coding-region'); it is not encoded
in the original buffer - the text in that buffer is unaffected,
and not because it is encoded and then decoded back. But
perhaps I misunderstand this part.
[There are also typos in the doc string of `encode-coding-region':
"Optional 4th arguments" should be "Optional 4th argument" and
"is replace by" should be "is replaced by".]
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-05 17:20 bug#25626: 25.1; doc of `bufferpos-to-filepos' for type `exact' Drew Adams
2017-02-05 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 18:58 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2017-02-05 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2017-02-05 20:22 ` Drew Adams
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