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#12989
24.3.50; buffer-file-type is not buffer-local
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Reported by: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr <at> d1.dion.ne.jp>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:01:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 24.3.50
Fixed in version 24.4
Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #8 received at 12989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:58:01 +0900
> From: Kazuhiro Ito <kzhr <at> d1.dion.ne.jp>
>
> When I evaluate below code, Emacs-23 and trunk on Windows return the
> different results.
The difference is intentional. buffer-file-type was removed from the
C code, with the goal of removing it entirely, but there are still
traces of it in Lisp. I'm surprised you only noticed this now.
> And, if buffer-file-type is set to t, many file coding system
> detections fail. Docstring says that buffer-file-type autmatically
> becomes buffer-local, but that is not true on trunk.
Just don't use that variable. You don't need it. If you want to
force Emacs to treat certain files as binary, bind
coding-system-for-read to 'binary or modify file-coding-system-alist
accordingly.
I will work on removing the variable entirely from the sources, though
I guess it's too late for 24.3. So I will do it on the trunk.
> Additionally, there is typo in docsstring of buffer-file-type.
>
> > This variable is meaningful on MS-DOG and Windows NT.
> ~~~~~~
It's not a typo.
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