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Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems? |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:10:47 +0200 (IST) |
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Stallman wrote:
> By the way, for that, we must pay attention to
> find-coding-systems-region. Without loading a coding
> system, it can't find out that coding system is safe or not.
> Is it ok that find-coding-systems-region won't return such
> coding systems that are not yet loaded?
>
> Is it possible to identify just a part of the coding system info
> which is sufficient for find-coding-systems-region, have that part
> always loaded, and autoload the rest?
It seems like all you need is for char-coding-system-table to know
about all the possible coding systems. Handa-san, is that right?
> It might be (almost) okay; it's certainly no worse than what we have
> now ;-)
>
> It could indeed be worse. If this information currently is always
> loaded, then currently find-coding-systems-region always can handle
> all coding systems. Making it fail to handle some coding systems
> COULD make it worse.
No, the current situation is that this information is _never_ loaded
automatically. So the cpNNN coding systems simply don't exist for
Emacs until you invoke codepage-setup.
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, (continued)
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/04
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Dave Love, 2001/11/04
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/06
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/06
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/07
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/08
- Re: Q: something like autoload for coding-systems?, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/11