21.5.27: file-coding-system-alist fails when dired loaded

Tony Bennett tbennett at nvidia.com
Tue Mar 6 20:34:43 EST 2007


Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> tbennett at nvidia.com writes:
>
>  > Eventually realized that it worked until dired was loaded.  When dired
>  > is loaded insert-file-contents recurses on itself (via
>  > insert-file-contents-internal and dired-handler-fn).  Something about
>  > this recursion messes up coding-system detection.
>
> Does this have something to do with it?
>
> 2006-11-30  Mike Sperber  <mike at xemacs.org>
>
> 	* fileio.c (Finsert_file_contents_internal): Don't call the
> 	file-name handler for `insert-file-contents' from here, which is
> 	too late.  Instead, do it from Lisp.
>
>   
Apparently so :-)   Problem seems fixed in XEmacs CVS top-of-tree on 
osx, linux and cygwin.

thanks!

--tony


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