Re: Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el: Set `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment' to nil by default.

[Dmitry Gutov]

Bozhidar Batsov <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry about the lack of clarity - I meant that if you have a Ruby 2.0 only 
> project you likely don't
> want the insertion of utf-8 coding comments.
>
> ...
>
> Yeah, I'm aware of that. In my open source projects I still keep 1.9 
> compatibility and generally
> include those cookies in every file. Since I want them included 
> unconditionally (AFAIK many other
> Ruby programmers do this as well for the sake of consistency) the 
> magic-comment functionality in
> ruby-mode is quite useless to me even for Ruby 1.9.

Now I get it, thanks for the explanation.

> If we add the option to include the magic
> comment unconditionally that might increase the usefulness of the
> setting for some people.

Sure, as long as it's not on by default. For example, add a new possible
value of `ruby-insert-encoding-magic-comment': `always'. Or `always-utf8'.

In this case, `ruby-mode-set-encoding' might short-circuit the whole
encoding detection logic and just always write `coding: utf-8'.