From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master b8062be 3/5: Remove some compat code from eudc-bob.el Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 17:41:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7t2irff.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200812175454.4839.92908@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20200812175456.C5D122172E@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <874kp7lpda.fsf@gnus.org> <87mu2zhssl.fsf@gnus.org> <83imdmn0vr.fsf@gnu.org> <835z9mmy4t.fsf@gnu.org> <83364qmr7f.fsf@gnu.org> <83zh6yl7wr.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2mil619.fsf@gnu.org> <83tux5lq43.fsf@gnu.org> <87bljdblir.fsf@gnus.org> <83mu2xldkh.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0y1lca6.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgco1bhq.fsf@gnus.org> <83imdkj67c.fsf@gnu.org> <878seex2jh.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28275"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 16:42:56 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k7Js8-0007I6-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:42:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7Js7-0004x8-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7JrF-0004FH-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7JrE-0005DH-E2; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:42:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2137 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k7Jr9-0003UU-Ur; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:41:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878seex2jh.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:17:54 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253848 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:17:54 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > No, we could bind inhibit-eol-conversion instead. > > We could, but that's an even bigger ask for people to remember. How is it different from asking them to remember that coding-system is relevant to unibyte buffers? > This stuff is full of subtle things that can go wrong, and having > clear rules to rely on would help a lot. So which clear rules would you suggest to have? Setting buffer-file-coding-system is not my favorite rule for forcing specific encoding, whether for multibyte or for unibyte buffers.