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Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness |
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Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:43:37 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> > set-buffer-multibyte jumps through the hoops to DTRT.
>> > By contrast, in buffer-swap-text we do just this:
>>
>> > swapfield (enable_multibyte_characters, Lisp_Object);
>>
>> > Could this cause trouble, e.g. if one of the buffers whose text is
>> > swapped contains eight-bit characters?
>>
>> Why would it? The text is swapped along with the
>> enable_multibyte_characters field, so they should stay consistent.
> I don't know, perhaps I was just confused. It's hard not to be, with
> all that mind-boggling swapping that goes on in Rmail between a
> unibyte buffer and a multibyte one. A horrible design, if you ask me.
> It's little surprise to me that I found so many bugs in Rmail due to
> this (and more are still there): one needs constantly to track the
> current state of the ``swappiness'', or else all bets are off.
> (Quick: if you are currently in rmail-view-buffer, and
> rmail-buffers-swapped-p returns non-nil, is the text unibyte or
> multibyte?)
I haven't looked at the code recently, but it does sound like an
undesirable state of affairs, indeed. 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.
Stefan
- buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Stefan Monnier, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Stefan Monnier, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Stefan Monnier, 2009/01/31
- Re: buffer-swap-text and multibyteness, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/01/31