Re: ^M in the info files

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> Has this one been forgotten?

No, but I haven't had a time to work on it.  As I've just
committed a change about font selection, I started to work
on it.  I've just installed the latest Emacs on Windows with
cygwin, and done this:

> The sequence is this:

>  - I have a ChangeLog, apparently correct, up-to-date with the repository.
>  - I modify it, typically by adding a new ChangeLog entry.
>  - I commit in from inside Emacs, with vc-next-action followed by 
> log-edit-done.
>  - I see the diff in emacs-diffs and notice that an empty line has
> been deleted. This seems to happen more to empty lines that separate
> paragraphs from date/author lines (as opposed to empty space between
> paragraphs), but I have no hard data, just a feeling.
>  - I edit the ChangeLog to see what's happened. All the lines end in ^M.
>  - I remove the ^M (with replace-string <ENTER> ^M^J <ENTER> ^J) [I
> don't write the ChangeLog, it's just to make it easier spot problems.]
>  - At that point (after removing the ^Ms) the line with the problem
> has this aspect:

But, I can't reproduce the bug.  The diff of the step 4
above shows only the entry I added.  What was the coding
system of your ChangeLog file when you first visitted it?

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden


> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 17:56, Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:42, dhruva <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
>>> Same here, I kept quiet as I am using GIT and thought I had messed
>>> around with something!
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I see a lot of ^M in the info files on w32, CVS from today. For example in
>>>> these files
> >
> > Apparently related to these changes:
> >
> > 2008-06-05  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
> >
> >        * coding.c (detect_coding): Fix previous change.
> >        (detect_coding_system): Likewise.
> >
> > 2008-06-04  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
> >
> >        * coding.c (detect_coding): Fix handling of coding->head_ascii.
> >        Be sure to call setup_coding_system when we find a proper coding 
> > system.
> >        (detect_coding_system): Fix handling of coding->head_ascii.
> >
> > Removing them fixes the problem for me.
> >
> >  Juanma