From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: file-coding-system-alist and shell endless loop problem Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:39:20 +0800 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87zm4546hz.fsf@www.williamxu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179297595 28570 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2007 06:39:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:39:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 16 08:39:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HoDAt-00023d-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDIp-00011i-VY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDIm-00011d-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDIk-00011R-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:47:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDIk-00011O-7K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:47:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HoDAl-0000hE-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 02:39:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HoDAY-00081U-9P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 203.86.61.139 ([203.86.61.139]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:30 +0200 Original-Received: from william.xwl by 203.86.61.139 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 08:39:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.86.61.139 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VuhIc5FE8mEhN1weKZCs5+Qt0iw= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71143 Archived-At: Hi all, I find that `M-x shell' would end in some endless loop when `file-coding-system-alist' has been set to something like ,---- | (setq file-coding-system-alist | '(("\\.dz\\'" no-conversion . no-conversion) | ("\\.g?z\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'" no-conversion . no-conversion) | ;; [...] | ("" utf-8 . utf-8))) `---- namely, set the default coding system for file I/O operation to utf-8. If i replace it with some other values, like undecided(the default value), gb2312, etc. It has no such problem. Emacs is built from cvs 20070515. William