Re: master b8062be 3/5: Remove some compat code from eudc-bob.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > No, we could bind inhibit-eol-conversion instead.
>> 
>> We could, but that's an even bigger ask for people to remember.
>
> How is it different from asking them to remember that coding-system is
> relevant to unibyte buffers?

It's just another thing -- everybody has to deal with
coding-system-for-* here and there, and then this eol thing is another.
That's too big an ask, I think.

>> This stuff is full of subtle things that can go wrong, and having
>> clear rules to rely on would help a lot.
>
> So which clear rules would you suggest to have?  Setting
> buffer-file-coding-system is not my favorite rule for forcing specific
> encoding, whether for multibyte or for unibyte buffers.

How did we end up with having unibyte buffers go through the eol
conversion in the first place?  Is it a relic from the Mule days?

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