Re: bug#40248: 27.0.90; Failure open .authinfo.gpg from Gnus

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

> Itʼs different from make-process and make-pipe-process, itʼs
> undocumented, and it was surprising to both me and Andreas.

Yeah, that's a good reason for changing it.

> If it turns out that in some obscure case somebody really needs the
> old behaviour, then binding coding-system-for-{read,write} will still
> be available, as will set-process-coding-sytem (or even passing
> :coding '(nil nil), but thatʼs just evil :-) )

Oh, yeah.  :-)  Then I don't have any quibbles about your patch.

I don't think that's evil at all, though -- it should be mentioned in
NEWS that if somebody (for some odd, unlikely reason) wants the old
:coding nil behaviour, then they should say :coding '(nil nil) now.

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