Re: "no-conversion" coding system (was: ^M in the info files)

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> What is the coding system of emacs/info/efag when you visit
>>> that file directly?

> > Both when I visit it directly and when I access it through Info,
> > buffer-file-coding-system is `no-conversion'.

> BTW, could we get rid of `no-conversion' (or at least make it obsolete
> and deprecated)?

> I mean, this is a misnomer which gives the illusion that there is such
> a thing as "no conversion", even though in reality there always is some
> conversion going on.  Better use the name `binary', I think.

When we do C-x C-m c no-conversion RET C-x C-f FILE RET,
"no-conversion" really means "no-conversion" because
FILE is read into a unibyte buffer without any conversion.

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Kenichi Handa
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