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bug#23709: 24.5; inhibit-eol-conversion breaks archive-7z-summarize
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#23709: 24.5; inhibit-eol-conversion breaks archive-7z-summarize |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 11:56:20 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why is the OP setting this variable to begin with?
>
> I think that a user who sets this variable, as opposed to let-binding
> it for a single operation, is shooting themselves in the foot. This
> is not how this variable is supposed to be used. Just don't do that.
> Any solution we would try to invent for this is going to bite us
> somewhere.
>
> If there are good reasons for setting this variable globally, let's
> hear them. I'm not aware of any use patterns which would require
> that.
It's a customizable user option. It seems perfectly valid to me to set
it globally, for the reasons given in the manual:
some people prefer this to the more subtle '(DOS)' end-of-line type
indication near the left edge of the mode line
I've had it set in my own .emacs for years, as it happens.