From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Youngs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Carsten Dominik ] Re: lisp/ChangeLog corruption Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:01:14 +1000 Organization: The XEmacs Development Team Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <86znwijf6u.fsf@gerd.free-bsd.org> <200207241554.g6OFsBT05724@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027530254 17776 127.0.0.1 (24 Jul 2002 17:04:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: file,emacs Cc: Carsten Dominik Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17XPYb-0004cb-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:04:13 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17XPnU-0000vU-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:19:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17XPYp-0004bI-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mta04bw.bigpond.com ([139.134.6.87]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17XPY0-0004aG-00 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eicq.dnsalias.org ([144.135.24.78]) by mta04bw.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta04bw May 23 2002 23:53:28) with SMTP id GZRJDV00.BIV; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:03:31 +1000 Original-Received: from ESS-p-144-138-77-106.mega.tmns.net.au ([144.138.77.106]) by bwmam04.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 29/23722886); 25 Jul 2002 03:03:31 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by eicq.dnsalias.org (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7) id g6OH1FB5001072; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:01:15 +1000 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: Emacs Devel X-Attribution: SY X-URL: X-Face: %@A&y\ef)A6pi|q43;M>uyhO)~NP*fpdo0XrUuutf0|nku\O5JV(7EG%odc'n6}G@tYRl+B #[n,%B`.sHZ5>3MZvrm%,rWE7)c}ZXjH\>=p@AL\y\gyu|.lJ8B`F++86 Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Devel , Carsten Dominik In-Reply-To: <200207241554.g6OFsBT05724@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:54:11 -0600") Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.5 (broccoli, i686-pc-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6015 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6015 |--==> "RS" == Richard Stallman writes: Carsten Dominik wrote: > I have been using XEmacs 21.1 patch 14 (Mule) to check edit and check > in the file. I don't know why it would change the coding system, but > maybe it does. I don't know much about coding systems... Carsten, this might help (untested): (if (featurep 'mule) (progn (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-2022-7bit-unix 'iso-2022-7bit) (add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("ChangeLog" . iso-2022-7bit-unix)))) RS> Please don't do this with XEmacs any more. Please use Emacs. Why? Providing that the above prevents any future file corruption in the ChangeLogs, it shouldn't matter should it? RS> (Besides, the only way you can test your changes in Emacs is to use RS> Emacs.) True, but it's not often that you need to test changes to a ChangeLog file. :-) -- |---------------------| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |---------------------------------------|