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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:51:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl7tz16j1tv.fsf@m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1MSy7Q-0005Mn-7H@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:01:48 -0400)

In article <E1MSy7Q-0005Mn-7H@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Why do we need to cater to unibyte operation in Emacs 23?
> 1. Unibyte buffers may be needed for certain internal operations.  I
> am not sure -- we need to ask Handa.

Currently, we are using unibyte buffers for various internal
operations (e.g rmail, tar-mode, jka-compr, ...).

It is theoretically possible to modify all of them to use a
multibyte buffer that contains only ASCII and eight-bit
chars.  But, as it may make the operations slow, I don't see
a merit in doing that.

Is that what you want to know?

> 2. As for editing of unibyte buffers by users, maybe nobody will mind
> if we get rid of that now.  But we should not eliminate it without
> first polling the users, to see who uses it and whether it is important.

I agree.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-19 23:21 One example of code I can't understand Richard Stallman
2009-07-20  3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 19:01   ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21  0:51     ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2009-07-21  3:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-21  4:10         ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-21 14:41       ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-22  6:58       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-21  0:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-21 14:41       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-19 23:21 Richard Stallman
2009-07-20 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 20:50   ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-21 14:41     ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 17:34       ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-22 22:21         ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 14:42   ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 18:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-19 23:21 Richard Stallman

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