From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Several serious problems Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:52:55 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207271852.g6RIqth10738@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <200207221711.g6MHBZo02496@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207231335.WAA25692@etlken.m17n.org> <200207240325.g6O3PdX04898@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207240437.NAA26632@etlken.m17n.org> <200207250312.g6P3C9J06653@aztec.santafe.edu> <877kjimuk3.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027796021 19145 127.0.0.1 (27 Jul 2002 18:53:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:53:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@etl.go.jp, spiegel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17YWh9-0004yf-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:53:39 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17YWxX-0005DD-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YWhU-000501-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:54:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YWgS-0004ej-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6RIr5B17795; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:53:05 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g6RIqth10738; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:52:55 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: pot@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <877kjimuk3.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> (message from Francesco Potorti` on 26 Jul 2002 16:29:32 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6086 Recently, a package called buffer-charset.el was posted to gnu.emacs-sources. It uses the machinery of hi-lock to work, and it's wonderfully simple to use: you just do M-x show-buffer-charset-characters (or use `C-x w c' is hi-lock-mode is already active) and you're done. You are asked what charset you want to highlight, and if you don't know you just press TAB and choose from the list. The offending characters are highlighted. This might be useful for some purposes, but it is not the right interface to be a convenient solution to this particular problem. The user knows that the file can't be encoded in a certain coding system but she does not know which character sets are the problem.