From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Several serious problems Date: 15 Aug 2002 18:23:31 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200207221711.g6MHBZo02496@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208090441.g794fSh10970@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029432204 16073 127.0.0.1 (15 Aug 2002 17:23:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:23:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fOLA-0004B8-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17fOkk-0001bk-00 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fOM2-0003dV-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:24:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fOLS-0003RU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:23:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17fOLP-0003PX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17fOLN-0003Ov-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:23:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17fOLL-0003YI-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 18:23:31 +0100 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:6563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6563 "Stefan Monnier" writes: > > I cannot save the file lisp/ChangeLog. It specifies coding system > > iso-2022-7bit, but it contains something that cannot be encoded in that > > coding system. I don't know any way to find the text that causes the > > problem; essentially I am helpless. > > > > Handa-san, would you please clean up whatever is wrong with that file > > so that it can save properly once again? > > > > We MUST do something to make it easier for users to cope with such a > > situation. We talked about this a few weeks ago but nothing was done. > > Dave Love has code for it (and has posted it here). > I can't check it in, so could someone else take care of it ? > > > Stefan "who pleads guilty of delaying this patch" I don't know what that refers to. I suspect the problem concerns eight-bit-... characters. If you search for them, you have to get the multibyteness of the search string right in a way I always have to look up. [vc-annotate should show you what edit was responsible.] However, I installed code in `select-safe-coding-system' some time ago which should point to the first offending character when selection fails. (As far as I remember, that was supposed to be done long ago, but never was.) If the development source doesn't show you the offending character and advocate C-u C-x =, there's something wrong with that code.