Re: file-coding-system-alist and shell endless loop problem

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, William Xu <address@hidden> writes:

> I find that `M-x shell' would end in some endless loop when
> `file-coding-system-alist' has been set to something like

> ,----
> | (setq file-coding-system-alist
> |       '(("\\.dz\\'" no-conversion . no-conversion)
> |     ("\\.g?z\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'" no-conversion . no-conversion)
> |     ;; [...]
> |     ("" utf-8 . utf-8)))
> `----

> namely, set the default coding system for file I/O operation to
> utf-8.

I can't reproduced that problem.  Could you please use M-x
report-emacs-bug RET to report the bug?  That command
inserts many useful information in *mail* buffer.  It may be
ok to change the To: address to address@hidden by hand.

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Kenichi Handa
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