From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <458B0D75.9010204@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166821533 696 80.91.229.10 (22 Dec 2006 21:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 22 22:05:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gxra5-0004XD-88 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:05:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gxra4-0001mW-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxrY5-0000pf-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxrY4-0000p6-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxrY4-0000p0-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GxrY4-0000fF-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GxrXz-0006QO-Ja; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:19 -0500 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-reply-to: <458B0D75.9010204@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:40:53 +0100) 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:64131 Archived-At: Handa-san, would you please join in this? The first problematic character is at point in the displayed buffer, and C-u C-x = will give information about it. At the prompt "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):" this just gives information about the minibuffer. That is true. So you have to switch windows in order to use the command C-u C-x = to get that information. And when using C-g to quit the problematic character disappears from screen. Of course, that is what C-g is supposed to do. I see two things we could do: * Change the message to say that you need to switch to that window before you give the command. * Make up some simpler command, and make it work without switching windows. What command could it be? It has to be typable on a tty.