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27.2; find-file-literally doesn't respect saveplace-mode

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From: Scott Otterson <scotto <at> sharpleaf.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 51740 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51740: 27.2;
 find-file-literally doesn't respect saveplace-mode
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:46:49 -0800

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That was fast.  Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:05 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> 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).
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
>

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