Re: [vile] vile-9.6k.patch.gz

[Paul van Tilburg]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:35:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:42:35PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > [...]
> > It would IMO be more sane to set the default based on the locale.
> > I have set LC_CTYPE to an UTF-8 locale exactly for that purpose.
> > If this is done, this still works for editting latin1/latin9 files
> > or ASCII files. 
> 
> hmm - it's a little more complicated than that (I've made some changes
> which seem to work, will be testing...).  For _reading_ a file, the
> auto-detection is actually needed, I think, to avoid reading a latin1
> file as utf-8 (it would tend to be illegal coding). [...]
> For _writing_ a new buffer, the locale is more reliable, since vile's
> collecting all of the information on that.
> 
> So what I've implemented in the past couple of days is a new setting
> for file-encoding, "locale", and made that the default.  The existing
> "auto" setting tells it to use only its guess, while "locale" tells it
> to use the locale-settings for new files.  The other values are still
> used to tell it exactly what encoding to use.

This is exactly what I meant to say. Great!  I had only issues
when trying to edit a new file, which was latin1 by default now
instead of UTF-8 by (locale) preference.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 
PhD Student @ Eindhoven                     | email: address@hidden
University of Technology, The Netherlands   | JID: address@hidden
>>> Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux <<< | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature