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Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
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Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:03:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> One problem with that is that quite often Emacs' choice of a coding
>>>> system for a buffer is the result of heuristics rather than dependable
>>>> information. Not making a fuzz might often be simplest.
>>>
>>> If you try to save a buffer Emacs will check whether all characters are
>>> encodable, and complain (and ask) if they aren't.
>>
>> Sure, but a raw byte is trivially encodable since it is no character.
>
> This is a contradiction. It isn't a character, so it isn't encodable.
The character representation of "raw byte" is trivially encodable since
it represents a single byte in any encoding.
--
David Kastrup
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- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/07
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- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/07
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- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Andreas Schwab, 2014/10/07
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