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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:52:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u63zdzqt1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtzmyrth5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:24:52 -0500)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:24:52 -0500
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> You're right that the most important part is to specify the EOL in the
> coding cookie.  But I also think that it should always use `unix' EOL
> when writing the file, because that's the only coding-system that's
> safe: both the `dos' and the `mac' EOLs can result in data loss when the
> text being saved includes ^M and ^J characters.  It's minor, but if
> we're going to insist on emacs-mule in place of utf-8, then we should
> insist on `unix' in place of `dos' or `mac' style EOL.

I'm fine with -unix, but I won't recommend changing that on the Emacs
22 branch, as there's no bug we are fixing here.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 14:46 saveplace: don't ask for coding system David Reitter
2007-11-28 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-29  0:25   ` David Reitter
2007-12-03  1:04     ` General variable for verbosity level. (was: saveplace: don't ask for coding system) Karl Fogel
2007-12-03 20:22       ` David Reitter
2007-12-03 21:44         ` General variable for verbosity level Karl Fogel
2007-12-03 22:34       ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-29  9:04   ` saveplace: don't ask for coding system Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-29 21:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-30  9:17       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-11-29  9:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-02 16:51   ` David Reitter
2007-12-02 21:26     ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-02 21:31       ` David Reitter
2007-12-02 23:23         ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-03  4:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 10:59             ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-03 11:06               ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-03 21:02                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-03 20:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 21:32                 ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-04  4:20                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-04  6:17                     ` Karl Fogel
2007-12-04 20:57                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-04 16:40                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-04 21:32                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-04 22:24                         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-05  4:52                           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-12-05  8:49                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-05 18:25                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-05 20:05                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-06  4:21                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-06 12:38                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-04 22:51                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-12-04 16:55                   ` Richard Stallman

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