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From: "Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>
Subject: Re: emacs misbehaves without --unibyte
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:11:23 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17D3EZ-000IhJC@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020529130511.1847B-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 29 May 2002 13:06:58 +0300 (IDT))

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

    For some reason, many systems have file-name-coding-system set to nil by 
    default (I never had time to find out why), which is bad mantra.

This is because nil is the default setting for
`file-name-coding-system' when for

    emacs -q --no-site-file --eval '(blink-cursor-mode 0)'

from today's CVS snapshot, 2002 May 29 12:39 UTC, 
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.7 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
    
It turns out that the documentation for `file-name-coding-system' says

    If it is nil, `default-file-name-coding-system' (which see) is used.

And the default value for `default-file-name-coding-system' is also
nil.

The documentation for `default-file-name-coding-system' refers back
to the documentation for `file-name-coding-system' in a circular loop.

What would be a good value to provide `default-file-name-coding-system'?
It seems odd to:

    (set-language-environment 'English)

[Hmmm... in my test instance of Emacs, the preceding expression does
not change the reported value of `default-file-name-coding-system'; is
this a bug in Emacs or am I doing something wrong?]

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020529085604.GA499186@bruegel.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>
2002-05-29  9:00 ` emacs misbehaves without --unibyte Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-29  9:10   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-29 10:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-29 13:11       ` Robert J. Chassell [this message]
2002-05-29 17:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-31  7:04           ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-30 17:04   ` Richard Stallman

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