OK. I'll implement the discussed customizations.


On 3 November 2013 11:22, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com> writes:
>
> > Sorry about the lack of clarity - I meant that if you have a Ruby 2.0
> only project you likely don't
> > want the insertion of utf-8 coding comments.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Yeah, I'm aware of that. In my open source projects I still keep 1.9
> compatibility and generally
> > include those cookies in every file. Since I want them included
> unconditionally (AFAIK many other
> > Ruby programmers do this as well for the sake of consistency) the
> magic-comment functionality in
> > ruby-mode is quite useless to me even for Ruby 1.9.
>
> Now I get it, thanks for the explanation.
>
> > If we add the option to include the magic
> > comment unconditionally that might increase the usefulness of the
> > setting for some people.
>
> Sure, as long as it's not on by default. For example, add a new possible
> value of `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment': `always'. Or `always-utf8'.
>
> In this case, `ruby-mode-set-encoding' might short-circuit the whole
> encoding detection logic and just always write `coding: utf-8'.
>