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24.2; Exponential growth of files using raw-mode

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jeremy Barbay <jbarbay <at> dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: 17343 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17343: 24.2; Exponential growth of files using raw-mode
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:15:34 -0400

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>   1. Save the following line in a file "testAccentsMinimal.txt"

>   Nà¥

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>   2. Repeatedly, 

>      0) measure the size of the file (wc -c testAccentsMinimal.txt); 
>      1) open emacs loading the file (emacs -q testAccentsMinimal.txt);
>      2) insert and delete a character in it (manually);
>      3) save it selecting the suggested raw encoding (manually);

I cannot reproduce this. At this step, Emacs just saves the
file silently.  And the file keeps its size constant.
I tried with Debian's Emacs-24.3 and Emacs-23.4 as well as with the
current pretest (and using "-Q" rather than "-q").

> I think that I signaled this bug 1 year ago in Emacs 23 and was answered
> at the time that this would be solved by the next version (24), but it
> occured to me recently that this undesirable behavior was still there :(

We're pretesting 24.4, so hopefully we can finally crush this one for
24.4.


        Stefan

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