Re: nnmail-pathname-coding-system breaks my XEmacs.

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Jan 14 2009, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> I made this change yesterday to do that: 
>
> http://hg.debian.org/hg/xemacs/xemacs?cs=774e5c7522bf
>
> This version of your macro works with versions of 21.5 both with and without
> that patch, and with 21.4: 
>
> (defmacro nnmail-with-pathname-coding-system (&rest forms)
>   "Bind `file-name-coding-system' while running FORMS.
> A non-nil value of `nnmail-pathname-coding-system' will be used for
> decoding and encoding file names."
>   (if (featurep 'xemacs)
>       `(progn
>         (when (featurep 'file-coding)
>           ;; Work around a bug in many 21.5 betas:
>           (setq file-name-coding-system (coding-system-aliasee
>                                          'file-name)))

I didn't follow the thread carefully.  Do I understand correctly, that
the problem was a bug that is/was present only in XEmacs 21.5?

>         (let ((file-name-coding-system
>                nnmail-pathname-coding-system))
>           ,@forms))
>     `(let ((file-name-coding-system nnmail-pathname-coding-system))
>        ,@forms)))

Bye, Reiner.
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