Re: Replacement for string-as-unibyte-function

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 08:33:52 -0800
> From: Joe Riel <jriel@maplesoft.com>
> CC: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
>  (make-network-process
> 		  :name "mds"
> 		  :family 'ipv4
> 		  :service mds-port
> 		  :sentinel 'mds-sentinel
> 		  :filter 'mds-filter
> 		  :server 't)
> 
> That is done because the server handles multiple clients, so the filter
> function routes the data to the appropriate buffer.  It isn't clear to
> me whether using :coding then has an effect; I haven't seen it.
> 
> I tried setting up each client buffer with
> 
>     (with-current-buffer buf (set-buffer-multibyte nil))
> 
> and, in the filter function, just calling
> 
>     (insert string)

With or without the :coding attribute?  I guess without, which is why
it didn't work.

Also, make sure the above is run before the filter function is called
the first time.