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Emacs No Longer Reads Mac Text Files

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From: Leif Strand <leif <at> geodynamics.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Cc: 4924 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4924: Emacs No Longer Reads Mac Text Files
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:13:53 -0800

I added "(setq inhibit-null-byte-detection 1)" to my .emacs, and now 
everything works like a charm.  Thanks!!!

--Leif

Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article <4B01B0FC.4090505 <at> geodynamics.org>, Leif Strand <leif <at> geodynamics.org> writes:
> 
>> Glad to hear that CR support is still there.  Indeed, I've played with 
>> it a bit more, and it seems that trivial examples do work.
> 
>> I can't figure out what algorithm Emacs is using to guess the kind of 
>> text file.  So anyway, I've attached a tarball containing two files:
> 
>> * ozymandias.txt:  This a trivial example which does work.  It was 
>> created in BBEdit 4.5.
> 
>> * SqueakV1-18.sources:  This is the file that triggered my complaint. 
>> Emacs 21 correctly identified this as a Mac file.  In Emacs v23.1.50.1, 
>> I see one long line with a bunch of ^M characters.
> 
> Emacs now detects a file that contains NULL bytes as binary
> file and use `no-conversion' for reading that file (see the
> docstring of the variable `inhibit-null-byte-detection').
> And SqueakV1-18.sources cotains NULL bytes at line 26527.
> When I delete that line, the file is correctly detected as
> Mac-eol format.
> 
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> handa <at> m17n.org

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