GNU bug report logs - #51740
27.2; find-file-literally doesn't respect saveplace-mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:00:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.2

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 51740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>, 51740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51740: 27.2; find-file-literally doesn't respect
 saveplace-mode
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 05:05:03 +0100

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

> That's not really possible, since find-file-literally reads the file
> into a buffer in a way that can completely change the relation between
> the buffer position and the corresponding file byte offset -- due to
> decoding of text and other transformations that affect this.

Yup.  So I've now done this in Emacs 29 (and not on the emacs-28 branch
since this isn't a regression).

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