No coding system in the modeline for unibyte buffers.

[Juanma Barranquero]

Obviously, not a bug:

1997-07-29  Richard Stallman  <address@hidden>

        * xdisp.c (decode_mode_spec_coding): If multibyte chars disabled.
        display only the eol flag.

But, why?

Currently,

 C-x C-b new <RET>
 -*- coding: raw-text-unix -*- <RET>
 C-x C-s new.txt <RET>   ;; -t(Unix)---  new.txt [etc]
 C-x C-k
 C-x C-f new.txt <RET>   ;; -(Unix)---  new.txt [etc]

which works as expected but it's weird.

Is there any downside to just removing the code that forces that behavior?

    Juanma



Index: src/xdisp.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/src/xdisp.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1275
diff -u -2 -r1.1275 xdisp.c
--- src/xdisp.c 10 Jan 2009 18:41:07 -0000      1.1275
+++ src/xdisp.c 16 Jan 2009 12:24:56 -0000
@@ -18238,5 +18238,4 @@
 {
   Lisp_Object val;
-  int multibyte = !NILP (current_buffer->enable_multibyte_characters);
   const unsigned char *eol_str;
   int eol_str_len;
@@ -18249,6 +18248,5 @@
   if (!VECTORP (val))          /* Not yet decided.  */
     {
-      if (multibyte)
-       *buf++ = '-';
+      *buf++ = '-';
       if (eol_flag)
        eoltype = eol_mnemonic_undecided;
@@ -18263,6 +18261,5 @@
       eolvalue = AREF (val, 2);

-      if (multibyte)
-       *buf++ = XFASTINT (CODING_ATTR_MNEMONIC (attrs));
+      *buf++ = XFASTINT (CODING_ATTR_MNEMONIC (attrs));

       if (eol_flag)