Re: suggestion: function: buffer-bytes

[Stefan Monnier]

> But for the use case I needed, namely someone composing blog
> entries using nxml-mode,
> and then building up an http post message from what they created,
> the position-bytes solution does work.

If it worked in some case, it was only by accident, unless they specifically
decided to use emacs-mule as the coding system for their file (and to switch
wholesale to utf-8 at the exact time they upgrade their Emacs), which would
be rather unusual.


        Stefan