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Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on reve
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?] |
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:59:07 -0500 |
> > Looks like we should remember whether the current coding-system was
> > automatically inferred or whether it was explicitly specified.
>
> I'm not sure it's enough. Imagine the following sequence of commands:
>
> C-x RET c latin-2 RET C-x C-f some-file RET
> M-! cat some-file | recode latin-2..utf-8 > some-file RET
> M-x revert-buffer RET
>
> Here the user visited the file with Latin-2, then changed the file's
> encoding on disk into UTF-8, then reverted the buffer. Should Emacs
> autodetect in this case or not?
I don't think it matters since both options can make sense depending
on the context. Prompting the user is another option.
Stefan
Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Miles Bader, 2002/02/25
- Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/25
- Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Richard Stallman, 2002/02/26
- Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Eli Zaretskii, 2002/02/26
- Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Andreas Schwab, 2002/02/26
- Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?], Richard Stallman, 2002/02/27