Re: saveplace: don't ask for coding system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:49:34 +0100
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> On Dec 5, 2007 5:52 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I'm fine with -unix, but I won't recommend changing that on the Emacs
> > 22 branch, as there's no bug we are fixing here.
> 
> Why is not a bug to pass ^M^J to M-x replace-string and end up with
> ^M^M^M^M...^M^J in the history (after a suitable number of Emacs
> reloads)?

Because it wasn't reported by anyone until now, and the current
encoding was in savehist from day one.  So IMO this change is not safe
enough and the problem it tries to solve is not important enough to
risk the stability of Emacs 22 branch.