From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el: Set `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment' to nil by default.
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:46:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvc0cqatr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61BBE6C8D4D349B6963A0F429237A3A8@gmail.com> (Bozhidar Batsov's message of "Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:59:51 +0200")
> Since Ruby 1.8 reached end of life in the summer and most projects these
> days use Ruby 2.0 (which assumes source files use utf8 by default) having
> ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment’ doesn’t make much sense. Most people
> just disable it anyways, so why not have it disabled by default?
IIUC, Ruby-2.0 doesn't require source code to be utf-8, so the
magic-comment is not obsolete. IOW, what needs to be done is to make
Emacs prefer utf-8 for ruby files (it's probably the case already), and
to make ruby-mode-set-encoding only insert the magic comment if it is
different from utf-8.
Stefan "not a Ruby user"
PS: The `ruby' package in Debian stable is still at 1.9.1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-01 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-01 12:59 Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el: Set `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment' to nil by default Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-01 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-11-01 18:51 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-02 0:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-02 10:38 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-02 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-03 7:35 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-03 9:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-04 13:40 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-06 17:10 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-06 21:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-07 10:23 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-07 11:06 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-13 14:36 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-13 19:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-11-14 9:53 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-11-14 13:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
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