GNU bug report logs - #4816
change of coding system without inquiry

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:10:05 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 4816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eisinger <at> informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: bug#4816: change of coding system without inquiry
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:33:38 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:02:49 -0400
> Cc: 4816 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> I think you're right that we should at least do a y-or-n-p prompt
> when changing the buffer-file-coding-system, unless the change is to
> a "superset coding system" (like from us-ascii to latin-1).

FWIW, in the past users explicitly expressed annoyance by these
questions.  The request was to use the "native" encoding silently.  By
introducing back this question, we are restoring that annoyance.
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