Re: Should `auto-coding-functions' be mode-specific?

[Romain Francoise]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> We either could create a new function sgml-meta-auto-coding-function
> (like sgml-html-meta-auto-coding-function), or add encoding detection
> of HTML-like SGML files to sgml-html-meta-auto-coding-function by
> fetching and applying the sgml-mode rule as well as html-mode rule
> from magic-mode-alist.

I guess.

On the other hand, this hook runs every single time you save a file,
doing this would use resources for the benefit of a rather obscure
special case.

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