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Re: ^M in the info files |
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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:15:51 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:39:27 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
> handa@m17n.org
>
> > From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:28:34 -0800
> > Cc: 'Juanma Barranquero' <lekktu@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > Whatever happened to this thread and the associated bugs: #876, #1117,
> > #1284?
> >
> > It sounds like there were alternative proposals about how to fix this, but
> > there
> > was no discussion to try to reach a consensus or a decision. Is that where
> > things were left?
> >
> > Meanwhile, it's still impossible to use the index in Info manuals on
> > Windows,
> > and it's impossible to use some manuals (e.g. Viper) at all.
>
> Don't worry, this will get fixed before Emacs 23 is ready for release.
>
> I will work on it soon if no one beats me to it.
(Fore some value of "soon", sorry.)
I fixed this bug.
There were two suggestions for how to fix this: one by Handa-san in
this message:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00293.html
followed by a tentative patch by Juanma here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00316.html
The other suggestion was by Stefan:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00373.html
I decided I liked the first alternative better, since it has much
more local effect than the other one. What Stefan suggested implied
messing with coding priorities, and I didn't feel that was TRT at this
late stage in Emacs 23.1 development.
The changes I installed are more thorough than what Juanma posted:
they change both detect_coding and detect_coding_system, and also bind
inhibit-null-byte-detection in a couple more places in info.el.
The result was tested on GNU/Linux, MS-Windows, and MS-DOS, both with
compressed and uncompressed Info files, with auto-compression-mode
both on and off.
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