From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:15:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdv8tqkk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ud4hgwqns.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:44:23 +0200")
>> IIUC, this part of the manual dates back to the introduction of Mule,
>> when many people were using Emacs in unibyte mode.
> Yes.
>> Nowadays unibyte mode is not recommended
> I agree, but I was talking about the ELisp manual; Lisp programmers do
> need to know about unibyte buffers and strings, even if users are
> discouraged from using the unibyte mode.
Right, but for Elisp, we should make it even more clear that unibyte
buffers contain only bytes and not chars and that those buffers should
basically never be displayed, other than for debugging ;-)
Stefan
PS: Of course, editing binary files is also useful sometimes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-31 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 11:05 Unibyte characters Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Miles Bader
2008-10-31 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 15:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-10-31 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-31 21:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-11-01 10:47 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-11-02 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-31 19:30 ` Richard M. Stallman
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