Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ... why?

Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ... why?

[James Felix Black]

Starting Gnus for me leads to nasty coding cookies being added against 
my will to files.  This breaks my builds.  This is not acceptable.  Why 
is this happening?  I know little of coding systems and less of MULE, 
but it seems to me that changing file content without my express say-so 
is ALWAYS a bug.

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0)
Gnus v5.10.3 (built out of CVS on 11/03/03)

Thanks.

'jfb

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Re: Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ...

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:20:26 -0800, James wrote:

> Starting Gnus for me leads to nasty coding cookies being added
> against my will to files.

What cookies are those? Could you give an example?


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Re: Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ...

[James Felix Black]

> What cookies are those? Could you give an example?

Editing a file containing the form feed character (octal 012) causes 
the following to be inserted at the head of the file:

;; -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-

'jfb

Re: Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ...

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Nov 04 2003, James Felix Black wrote:

> Starting Gnus for me leads to nasty coding cookies being added
> against my will to files.

This has nothing to with Gnus.

> This breaks my builds.  This is not acceptable.  Why is this
> happening?

As I understood, it's a bug in BBDB and the effect has been triggered
by a change in Emacs CVS HEAD (fixed some days ago):

<URL:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/17668>
<URL:http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.emacs.devel&root=%3Cw4dy8uxpqks.fsf%40felix.riic.uni-linz.ac.at%3E>

> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0)
            ^^^^^^^

People using CVS version of are supposed to read the developers list
(emacs-devel in this case) and consult the list archives in case of
problems.  Searching for "coding cookie" on Gmane in gmane.emacs.devel
gives above mentioned thread as first hit.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Starting Gnus litters my files with ill-tasting cookies ...

[Alan Shutko]

James Felix Black <jfb@iparadigms.com> writes:

> Starting Gnus for me leads to nasty coding cookies being added against
> my will to files.  This breaks my builds.  This is not acceptable.
> Why is this happening?  

Because you're using a slightly old CVS Emacs, which has broken
add-hook when it deals with local variables, and BBDB, which tries to
set local-write-file-functions.

An Emacs CVS checkin was recently made to fix this.

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