Re: ielm automatic saving of history -- bug 67000

[Madhu <enometh@meer.net>]

*  Eli Zaretskii  <86jze7q4io.fsf@gnu.org>
Wrote on Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:36:15 +0300
>> the ielm-history file from which the comint-input-ring is initalized
>
> That's not what bothers me.  What bothers me is the way we save the
> history of the ielm command the first time, when they are not taken
> from a file, but from the user input.
>
>> Here I am prompted with the coding system warning . If i go ahead
>> and qchoose utf-8-unix, it goes ahead and saves it. I can compare
>> 2.txt.binary and 2.txt.out to see that utf-8-unix has not resulted
>> in any data loss.  Hence all the claims in my previous message.
>
> The data loss I had in mind is not in this case.

I still think there is some fishy behaviour when raw-text-unix is used
by as the initial (unspecified) encoding.  The message which the
prompt presents (that utf-8-unix cannot be used to save etc.) is
surely incorrect, since it goes ahead and saves it anyway as
utf-8-unix.

BTW did you have a chance to consider the patch I mailed on
oct-17-2024? -- Regards, madhu