Re: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>>> You are supposed to type "C-u C-x =" in the buffer you are trying to
>>> save.  To this end, you can type "C-x o" to get out of the
>>> minibuffer and to the buffer being saved, and then type "C-u C-x =".
>>
>> I think that is far too much to suppose from an average user.  How
>> about putting a property on the character that will highlight it and
>> display the information on mouse-over in a tooltip?
>
> Probably. Anyway I did not think of using C-x o here. I had no idea it
> worked from the minibuffer.

As this seems to be the only information missing from the *warning*
buffer for pure tty use (or mousephobics like me), maybe we should
simply add a note on C-x o to the text?

Here is my first try on this:


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diff -r e0ab6280c837 lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
*** a/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el	Sun Dec 31 12:25:06 2006 +0100
--- b/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el	Sun Dec 31 15:31:40 2006 +0100
***************
*** 792,798 ****
  
  Click on a character to jump to the place it appears,\n"
  		      (substitute-command-keys "\
! where `\\[universal-argument] \\[what-cursor-position]' will give information about it.\n"))))
  	  (insert (substitute-command-keys "\nSelect \
  one of the safe coding systems listed below,\n\
  or cancel the writing with \\[keyboard-quit] and edit the buffer\n\
--- 792,800 ----
  
  Click on a character to jump to the place it appears,\n"
  		      (substitute-command-keys "\
! where `\\[universal-argument] \\[what-cursor-position]' will give information about it.\n\
! You can also use `\\[other-window]' to witch to this window \n\
! and select the characters using RET.\n"))))
  	  (insert (substitute-command-keys "\nSelect \
  one of the safe coding systems listed below,\n\
  or cancel the writing with \\[keyboard-quit] and edit the buffer\n\


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cheers
sascha
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