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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:51:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvljbrbq95.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y6frptd7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 10 May 2010 20:19:16 +0300")

> Binding the value of enable-multibyte-characters may be a no-no, but
> _testing_ its value is still possible.  So I see no reason to
> set-buffer-multibyte unconditionally, because you may already be in a
> unibyte buffer.

But calling set-buffer-multibyte with the current value is harmless (it
checks a returns right away if there's nothing to do; this check might
even be faster than doing it in Elisp).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-10 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-10  7:26 mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Katsumi Yamaoka
2010-05-10 17:19 ` mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-10 17:51   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-05-10 18:47     ` mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-11  1:02       ` mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Stefan Monnier
2010-05-11  1:29       ` mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Katsumi Yamaoka
2010-05-11  1:43         ` mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer Katsumi Yamaoka

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