Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
   Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 12:27:38 +0200 (IST)

Hi Eli,

   > > (codepage-setup '1250)
   > > 
   > > I got an idea how to remove that need completely: to invent something 
like
   > > autoload for coding systems.
   > 
   > This was discussed before.  The proposed solution was to have something 
   > special for cpNNN coding systems that would automatically call 
   > codepage-setup for them as needed.  It just didn't get implemented...

can you tell me where to find that discussion? I have just quickly browsed
through emacs-devel archives, but found nothing. I can try to do that.

   > To be useful, this should be done at a much lower level than Gnus, or any 
   > other application package.  IMHO, it would be very confusing to have 
   > codepages automagically available in certain commands, but not in others.

Of course, this is the reason why I mentioned C-x RET C in the previous
mail as well.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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