From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40867 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Huber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: file coding for ChangeLog? Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:23:09 -0500 Organization: Mind your own business, you silly arthur king! Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87snabvln6.fsf@paradoxical.net> References: <878zc54if3.fsf@paradoxical.net> <2nu1ut2e4t.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176352 3161 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15462 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2001 04:24:59 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2001 04:24:59 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16FSqD-0005Mt-00; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:23:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:23:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA25366 for ; Sat, 15 Dec 2001 22:23:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15440 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2001 04:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15435 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2001 04:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 16 Dec 2001 04:23:24 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16FSyJ-0003PQ-00 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 05:32:19 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h000094c5efff.ne.mediaone.net Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1008477139 13107 65.96.250.128 (16 Dec 2001 04:32:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Dec 2001 04:32:19 GMT X-Go-Away: or I shall taunt you a second time! X-PGP-KeyID: 6B21489A X-Fingerprint: 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A X-Request-PGP: finger:huber@db.debian.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service, powerpc-debian-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:peiROJrcOK5NMY3z6r2L09H9IJo= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40867 ShengHuo ZHU writes: > It appears to work. But I am not sure whether there are some side > effects in Emacs. Right, that's the thing I was worried about. I think it should work though -- the coding: encoding format must have been a shortcut for GNU Emacs... > Actually, more than one files contain such lines. If no side > effects, maybe we should change all of them. Yes, I think we should... > Moreover, some .el and .texi files have coding variables in the > headers, which doesn't work in XEmacs either Oh, you're right, that seems a little odd to me...some of them have the coding only in the header, some have them in both (which don't seem to match ever!) I've put together a diff which changes all the occurrences of coding to buffer-file-coding-system, and changes all the files which use local variables to the newer style "Local Variables" at the end of the file format. Does this sound good? -- Josh Huber