From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: No coding system in the modeline for unibyte buffers. Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232138752 12406 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2009 20:45:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 16 21:47:04 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 1LNvan-00079o-Mb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:47:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNvZW-0004a2-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNvZS-0004ZY-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNvZR-0004Z9-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58832 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNvZQ-0004Z6-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:30771 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNvZQ-00034f-G6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:36 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkQFAOSAcElMCpxj/2dsb2JhbACBbMwVhXKBfw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,278,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="32428718" Original-Received: from 76-10-156-99.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.156.99]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 16 Jan 2009 15:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 226D67F97; Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:45:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:46:23 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:107913 Archived-At: >> 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. Maybe the problem is that you don't realize that a unibyte buffer is different from a multibyte buffer using raw-text (or binary) encoding? Stefan