From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: commit-msg hook Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:29:37 +0300 Message-ID: <834momg2lq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y4m0tgac.fsf@gnu.org> <55288A2D.5030809@cs.ucla.edu> <83d23bruui.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8yff0pl.fsf@gnu.org> <838udzf0ix.fsf@gnu.org> <552916C9.9070900@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1428762602 1534 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2015 14:30:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 11 16:29:54 2015 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 1YgwPw-0005Ev-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:29:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42857 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgwPv-0003mv-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgwPj-0003mk-4O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgwPf-0001dm-VF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:46441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YgwPf-0001ab-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMN00700BNMGO00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:21:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMN006YSBV01910@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 17:21:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <552916C9.9070900@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:185290 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:42:49 +0300 > From: Dmitry Gutov > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On 04/11/2015 12:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Would it be too expensive to use Emacs for detecting unprintable > > characters, instead of the shell and Awk? All those issues with > > handling UTF-8 encoded characters correctly and portability issues > > will then simply disappear. > > There's no guarantee that there is an Emacs executable in PATH, nor that > src/emacs is compiled and working. On Emacs developer's machine? Blasphemy! (We only need _some_ Emacs, not the latest one.)