Re: Unibyte characters

[Stefan Monnier]

>> IIUC, this part of the manual dates back to the introduction of Mule,
>> when many people were using Emacs in unibyte mode.
> Yes.
>> Nowadays unibyte mode is not recommended
> I agree, but I was talking about the ELisp manual; Lisp programmers do
> need to know about unibyte buffers and strings, even if users are
> discouraged from using the unibyte mode.

Right, but for Elisp, we should make it even more clear that unibyte
buffers contain only bytes and not chars and that those buffers should
basically never be displayed, other than for debugging ;-)


        Stefan


PS: Of course, editing binary files is also useful sometimes.