From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Brennan Vincent" <brennan@umanwizard.com>
Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a mechanism for passing unibyte strings from lisp to modules.
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:26:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wmmb99f7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzickjq8.fsf@taipei.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (brennan@umanwizard.com)
> From: "Brennan Vincent" <brennan@umanwizard.com>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:36:31 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > If we want to allow Emacs to send binary data, I'd rather come up with
> > a specialized interface to do just that. Explaining the subtleties of
> > using unibyte text in Emacs is a tough job, since it involves a lot of
> > low-level technical details. When unibyte text comes from encoding
> > human-readable text that is at least justified, since that's what
> > Emacs was designed to d, among other things. But using Emacs as a
> > handy method of reading binary data, to avoid doing that in the module
> > itself, and asking us to add an interface for that use case is too
> > much for my palate.
>
> I think it would be great if emacs grew a specialized vector-of-bytes type.
How will it be different from the Lisp vectors we already have?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-26 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-21 18:13 [PATCH] Add a mechanism for passing unibyte strings from lisp to modules Brennan Vincent
2024-06-21 18:13 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-21 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-21 20:14 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-22 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <87o77t6lyn.fsf@taipei.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
2024-06-22 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 21:15 ` Andrea Corallo
2024-06-24 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-25 17:36 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-26 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-26 12:39 ` tomas
2024-06-26 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-26 13:33 ` tomas
2024-06-26 14:32 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-26 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-26 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-27 3:36 ` Brennan Vincent
2024-06-27 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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