Re: address@hidden: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?]

[Kenichi Handa]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I tend to think he is right.  What do you think?
[...]
> From: "Marshall, Simon" <address@hidden>
> To: "'Emacs Pretest Bug'" <address@hidden>
> Subject: FW: [21.1.90]: should coding be recalculated on revert-buffer?
> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:09:45 -0000
[...]
> If I visit a DOS-format file in Emacs on a Unix box, Emacs helpfully
> tells me the coding system is DOS in the modeline.  If I use dos2unix
> in a shell to convert it and M-x revert-buffer in Emacs, Emacs still
> tells me the coding system is DOS.

> Shouldn't it revert the coding system as appropriate too?

In the above specific case, I agree he is right.

But, if one visited a file with C-x RET c CODING RET C-x C-f
FILENAME RET, it usually means that the file encoding is
different from what Emacs automatically detects.  Thus, in
such a case, we had better read the file with the same
coding system (i.e. CODING).

And, it's difficult to distinguish the above two cases.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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