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Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:58:53 +0300

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:30:21 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> >
> >> If we want different semantics for case-fold-search in binary buffers,
> >> then the solution is setting a buffer-local setting of case-fold-search
> >> when opening a buffer intended to be manipulated in a binary way.
> >> 
> >> But the unibyte setting of the buffer should not affect normal character
> >> and string operation semantics.  It is a buffer implementation detail
> >> that should not really have a visible effect apart from making some
> >> buffer operations impossible.
> >
> > But if case-fold-search is set to nil in unibyte buffers, and (as we
> > know) buffer-local value of case-fold-search does affects functions
> > that compare text, either because they consult case-fold-search
> > directly or because the consult buffer-local case-table, then the
> > unibyte setting does affect the semantics, albeit indirectly.
> 
> No, it doesn't.  Correlation is not causation.

But in this case, it is: they both stem from the same cause.

> > Not that I disagree with you, but why does it matter whether some code
> > makes a buffer unibyte or sets its case-fold-search, to achieve that
> > goal?  In both cases, that something tells Emacs to ignore case
> > conversion, it just uses 2 different ways of saying that.  If we are
> > not going to abolish unibyte buffers, how is the difference important?
> 
> Because it makes things predictable.  I can take a look at the setting
> of case-fold-search in order to figure out what will happen regarding
> the case folding of searches.  If I want them to occur, I can set the
> variable, and if I don't want them to occur, I can clear that variable.

The same is true about the unibyte flag.



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