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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: What does the coding system nil mean?
Date: 26 Jan 2004 19:28:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubroqhb6g.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr7xm92e8.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@asado.iro.umontreal.ca> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:07:48 GMT)

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:07:48 GMT
> 
> For coding-systems, you can use `no-conversion' in place of nil, and there
> was no historical reason to overload the meaning of nil here.

I think the reason was that you say, e.g., "C-x RET t nil" to disable
any conversions to the terminal.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-24 22:13 What does the coding system nil mean? Jesper Harder
2004-01-25  6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1298.1075010993.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-25 21:09   ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26  6:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1343.1075097239.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-26 15:07       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 17:28         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-01-27 15:22         ` Oliver Scholz
2004-01-27 16:33           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 15:20       ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 17:26         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-27 14:44         ` Oliver Scholz

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