From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eisinger@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 4816@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:49:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ef3ezzo2.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5sl9c7g.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:02:49 -0400")
(Bug report about Latin-1 files becoming UTF-8.)
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> + (unless (or (local-variable-p 'buffer-file-coding-system)
> + (eq coding-system buffer-file-coding-system)
> + ;; We'd rather only bother the user if the coding-system
> + ;; change would cause the file's content to change, so we'd
> + ;; want to check whether the new coding-system is a superset
> + ;; of the previous one.
> + (memq buffer-file-coding-system '(nil undecided us-ascii))
> + (y-or-n-p (format "Change encoding from %s to %s? "
> + buffer-file-coding-system coding-system)))
> + (setq coding-system nil))
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> FWIW, in the past users explicitly expressed annoyance by these
> questions. The request was to use the "native" encoding silently. By
> introducing back this question, we are restoring that annoyance.
Perhaps it's time to make a decision now -- to not add a change like this?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-27 23:03 bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry Norbert Eisinger
2009-10-30 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-30 13:19 ` Norbert Eisinger
2009-10-30 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-30 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 16:32 ` Norbert Eisinger
2009-11-01 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-02 7:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-06-27 17:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-06-27 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-23 12:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 6:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-29 2:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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