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28.0.90; mm-inline-media-tests customization breaks .emacs reading

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Message #18 received at 52554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, 52554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#52554: 28.0.90; mm-inline-media-tests customization breaks
 .emacs reading
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:58:19 +0200

> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>,  52554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:13:53 +0100
> 
> On Dez 16 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> $ HOME=/tmp emacs --debug-init
> >> 
> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "?" 1 0)
> >>   read(#<buffer  *load*>)
> >>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/tmp/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 573
> >>   load-with-code-conversion("/tmp/.emacs" "/tmp/.emacs" t t)
> >>   load("~/.emacs" noerror nomessage)
> >
> > Perhaps we should bind inhibit-null-byte-detection to a non-nil value
> > while loading the init file?
> 
> I'd rather think that custom-save-variable should bind
> print-escape-control-characters to t.

Maybe we should do both?

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