GNU bug report logs - #44486
27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:24:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 27.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: thievol <at> posteo.net, handa <at> gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org, 44486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44486: 27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:02:16 -0500

>> > -  :prefer-utf-8 t)
>> > +  :prefer-utf-8 t
>> > +  :inhibit-null-byte-detection 0
>> > +  :inhibit-iso-escape-detection 0)
>> 
>> Makes sense to me, but is there any particular reason to use 0 instead
>> of t here?
>
> 0 is different: it says to obey the value of
> inhibit-null-byte-detection resp. inhibit-iso-escape-detection.  t
> means inhibit the detection unconditionally, which is not what we
> want.

Actually, for prefer-utf-8 files, I think we never want to automatically
fallback to binary.

IOW I think Thierry's situation shows a bug in Emacs rather than
a pilot error.


        Stefan
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