From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Simon Krahnke <overlord@gmx.li>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables'
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:18:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lld40xve.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114235558.GA18975@fencepost> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:55:58 -0500")
>> > I think we should make the whole _concept_ of "unibyte" deprecated...
>>
>> At the user-level, yes that was pretty much my understanding as well, which
>> is why the unibyte:t marker should be considered obsolete.
>>
>> At the elisp level, unibyte strings and buffers are still very handy
>> to manipulate undecoded data (such as when talking to an NNTP server).
>> I don't see any reason why this should ever be deprecated.
> I think the lisp/C level are a complete mess also, but it's probably too
> painful and too much work to fix it.
But are you still talking about the *concept* of unibyte, then?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-15 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-14 19:02 Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables' Reiner Steib
2004-11-14 21:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-14 23:26 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-14 23:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-14 23:55 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-15 0:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-11-15 4:53 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-15 5:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-16 16:48 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-16 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-18 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2004-11-18 16:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-18 17:07 ` Simon Krahnke
2004-11-18 18:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-19 1:23 ` Info-search-whitespace (Was: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables') Juri Linkov
2004-11-19 5:06 ` Info-search-whitespace Stefan Monnier
2004-11-19 17:48 ` Info-search-whitespace Juri Linkov
2004-11-19 20:04 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-19 20:41 ` Info-search-whitespace David Kastrup
2004-11-21 15:39 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-21 16:09 ` Info-search-whitespace David Kastrup
2004-11-22 0:18 ` Info-search-whitespace Stefan Monnier
2004-11-23 16:30 ` Info-search-whitespace Richard Stallman
2004-11-19 7:15 ` Info-search-whitespace (Was: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables') Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-19 2:25 ` Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables' Richard Stallman
2004-11-29 19:04 ` Reiner Steib
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