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24.3.50; buffer-file-type is not buffer-local

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 12989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#12989: 24.3.50; buffer-file-type is not buffer-local
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:17:39 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  12989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:08:05 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > There are still references to find-buffer-file-type (which no longer
> > exists as of the above revision) in tramp-sh.el.  The code there is
> > commented as being for XEmacs only, and I don't really understand what
> > is it trying to accomplish.  Michael, could you please take a look?
> > Ideally, we should delete all that stuff, unless it breaks XEmacs.
> 
> `tramp-sh-handle-insert-file-contents-literally', which calls
> `find-buffer-file-type', is used only for XEmaxs. Emacs does not call a
> file name handler for `insert-file-contents-literally'.
> 
> So I would like to let it as it is; I don't know whether it would break
> XEmacs when we remove that code. I run XEmacs extremely rarely.

Thanks for looking.  Leaving the code as it is would be fine with me.

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