From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 4816@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, eisinger@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:05:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvocnlmmqt.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fx8yccxp.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:33:38 +0200")
>> I think you're right that we should at least do a y-or-n-p prompt
>> when changing the buffer-file-coding-system, unless the change is to
>> a "superset coding system" (like from us-ascii to latin-1).
> 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.
IIRC, the annoyance was only when saving a formerly us-ascii file
(typical example: an empty or not-yet-existing file).
But, yes, I know this is delicate.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 23:03 bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry Norbert Eisinger
2009-10-30 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-30 13:19 ` Norbert Eisinger
2009-10-30 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-30 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 16:32 ` Norbert Eisinger
2009-11-01 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-02 7:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-06-27 17:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-27 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-23 12:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 6:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 2:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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