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23.1; buffer-file-format encoding temp buffers not reentrant

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From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 5440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, user42 <at> zip.com.au
Subject: Re: bug#5440: 23.1;
 buffer-file-format encoding temp buffers not reentrant
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:07:50 -0400

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

>> From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: user42 <at> zip.com.au,  5440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 01:06:05 -0400
>> 
>> >  -- Variable: format-alist
>> >      This list contains one format definition for each defined file
>> >      format.            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >      ^^^^^^
>> >
>> > "Only one format definition per format."  But I think it won't do any
>> > harm to specifically warn about violating that.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> 
>> I think the original bug report had one format definition for each
>> defined file format, but was manipulating a file in one format while in
>> another format function.
>
> That's more than one format in disguise.
>
>> How about I change the documentation to just warn not to manipulate
>> other files in FROM-FN here?
>
> Can you show a proposed patch?
>
> Thanks.

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[0001-Warn-against-unintentional-recursion-in-formatting.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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