From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:57:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <00f801c92fd5$54f26100$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <48F7D110.8010605@gmail.com> <000501c92feb$66cab330$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <48F84E9F.8070702@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii , 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224238219 12138 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2008 10:10:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:10:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 12:11:19 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqmIc-00036s-S8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:11:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43849 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqmHX-0002wI-Sr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqmHU-0002vE-Av for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqmHT-0002uR-Qy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50980 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqmHT-0002uO-Mi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:47186) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KqmHS-0001tH-Ez for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9HAA0CP024025; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:10:00 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m9HA54Cv022946; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:05:04 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:05:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1187 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1187-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1187.122423743520879 (code B ref 1187); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:05:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1187) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 17 Oct 2008 09:57:15 +0000 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il (mtaout2.012.net.il [84.95.2.4]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9H9vBXg020873 for <1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:57:13 -0700 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.24.3]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K8V00B5BNPHY580@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:58:30 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <48F84E9F.8070702@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:10:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21591 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:36:47 +0200 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > CC: Drew Adams , 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: "Drew Adams" > >> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:00:40 -0700 > >> Cc: > >> > >>> Just for info: I had some similar problems and decided to set > >>> current-language-environment to "UTF-8" > >> OK, thanks for the workaround. > >> > >> But that should not be necessary. In Emacs 22, it just DTRT. Users should be > >> able to load the file in both Emacs versions without fiddling with the language > >> environment. > > > > But that could be a problem with vline.el itself, you know. It uses > > non-ASCII characters, but does not include any "coding:" cookies, so > > Emacs is left with its guesswork for how to interpret the 8-bit bytes > > included in the file. And that guesswork is not fool-proof. > > > > I will look at this closer after you report the details about the > > bytes that I requested in my other message. > > I do not remember; could the defaults be changed so that reading files > like vline.el will succeed? Obviously, that depends on the nature of the problem, which at least to me is not yet clear.