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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/gnus-decoded 548c778: Don't add encoding cookie in Gnus' active files
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 11:50:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzho6maz5.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190501152059.0E9D9209A5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Wed,  1 May 2019 11:20:58 -0400 (EDT)")

>     * lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el (gnus-write-active-file): This doesn't do
>       what I thought it would do.
[...]
> -      (insert (format ";; -*- encoding: %s; -*-\n\n" coding-system-for-write))

Not sure what you expect it to do, but the above cookie indeed likely
doesn't do anything at all.  If you change `encoding` to `coding` then
it should have the effect of telling Emacs which encoding to use when
reading the file.


        Stefan



       reply	other threads:[~2019-05-01 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2019-05-01 15:50   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-05-01 16:27     ` [Emacs-diffs] scratch/gnus-decoded 548c778: Don't add encoding cookie in Gnus' active files Eric Abrahamsen

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