From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No coding system in the modeline for unibyte buffers. Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:46:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232124478 28141 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2009 16:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 16 17:49:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LNrsJ-0003MA-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:48:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNrr3-0000ZZ-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:47:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNrpy-0000CI-F1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNrpw-0000Aq-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50284 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNrpw-0000Ae-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.149]:33920) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNrpw-0005kx-3n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so190805eyg.24 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kl2bQV6JkFvAtQ0cj6YkTaEMOp7QC1RDyCL3EI3udX4=; b=cvW+oLUkQPLrDg4GCNmaFHasVM09Row3+Ym5PmRMKNvs9eS1d9dJBeeQ2Jg9XMsHsf ndR38ov18SP7FxAl4KzUmQHZtWRi7jbWr5u/6Irt8IHlEWpu9WCuTuNEgz19g6VuklP7 VhyWa4g7ZLwUwOF43NACAnGpNaoEwweinsx5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rPUH4Epq6+OnLB5jQAVvkdMpU2MphwNGSjaNymtA4wfO6pUrqiQF91uQlFfB6K/Wf4 ZK5iRE0GCfeipD46hfi+8OIzJlwjpFarV1TU9G/E4z/BAL+BZjpFXVwHwK962YtHAmvt 4ghW1MQlVbBOjpAm4Ensa5ezH8mz5nYq3qElE= Original-Received: by 10.210.34.5 with SMTP id h5mr2039942ebh.161.1232124383249; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:46:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107909 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 17:42, Stefan Monnier wrote: > So as to indicate if the buffer is unibyte or multibyte? Hmm. I suppose that is useful (though, if the coding system is on the modeline, its toltip will tell you that). Knowing the encoding is useful, too, if you deal with unibyte data from various encodings. Perhaps both things could be shown. Juanma