From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs24 coding system problems Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:43:42 +0000 Message-ID: <20649.61758.750000.69012@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20627.33570.796000.901596@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20649.12724.125000.858979@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <83k3tizkl2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353314640 5898 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2012 08:44:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:44:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Uday Reddy , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 09:44:11 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxf-0007Il-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:44:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxV-0007QP-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:44:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36329) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxQ-0007L5-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:43:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxN-0003JW-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:43:56 -0500 Original-Received: from sun60.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.137]:46033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxN-0003IM-Cb; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun60.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TaMxL-00021Y-Ml; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:43:51 +0000 Original-Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk (envelope-from ) with esmtp (Exim 4.72) id 1TaMxK-0002XB-G0 using interface smart1.bham.ac.uk; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:43:50 +0000 Original-Received: from gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.193.16] helo=MARUTI.cs.bham.ac.uk) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1TaMxK-0006J7-R6; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:43:50 +0000 In-Reply-To: <83k3tizkl2.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 147.188.128.137 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154952 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Sorry, I only remember very vaguely what this was about. The problem is that once Emacs24 is used with VM along with emacs-w3m, then from then on Emacs24 reads every file "literally", i.e., doesn't recognize the coding-systems and dos line-endings. > > > Or maybe the file in question has undecodeable byte sequences. Do you > > > see "t" (which stands for 'raw-text') in the mode line, per chance? > > > > There is `t' in the modeline. `buffer-file-coding-system' is getting set to > > `no-conversion', whereas normally it is `utf-8-unix'. Sorry, that was a serious typo. I mean tto say there is *no* `t' in the modeline. > If this is so complicated, then the only way to track this down is to > set breakpoints on the C level where buffer is decoded > (decode-coding-region, I guess), and see what happens there and why. Yeah, I was afraid of that. Cheers, Uday