Re: no `coding:' in file loc vars

>>>>> "Golubev" == Golubev I N <[email protected]> writes:

    >> There won't be; coding cookies cause the developers more
    >> trouble than they're worth.  We get lots of bug reports when
    >> coding cookies fail due to pilot error.

    Golubev> This means that files originally created in (FSF) emacs
    Golubev> are not processed in xemacs properly.  How do emacs
    Golubev> developers avoid such a trouble?

I doubt they do avoid it.  They're just willing to put up with it.

How many such files do you have to deal with?  Is there usually a
reason to specifically avoid a cookie in the first or second line?

    >> As for `set-auto-coding-function' I'm not sure what you want.

    Golubev> It is name of a built-in variable in (FSF) emacs.
    Golubev> It would analyze (raw) file contents to decide coding
    Golubev> system of file.

I think Ben Wing is planning to implemented user-specified coding
systems, including detection, in 21.5.  You should get in touch with
him.

But none of this stuff will get ported back to 21.1, for sure.  And
probably not 21.4, because to read just the _end_ of the file to get
the local variables before reading in the whole file probably means
adding more than just a line or two.



-- 
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences     http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
University of Tsukuba                    Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
              Don't ask how you can "do" free software business;
              ask what your business can "do for" free software.