Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:43:37 -0500
> 
> In tar-mode (and the way I imagine buffer-swap-text to be used),
> swapping the buffer is a rare operation that's basically only done
> when the the major mode changes.

In Rmail, we do it each time a new message is being displayed.

Just imagine what it takes to implement rmail-edit with this
mind-swapping design (which is probably the main reason why it
currently seems to work only with plain-ASCII message bodies).