Re: mm-with-unibyte-current-buffer

[Stefan Monnier]

> Binding the value of enable-multibyte-characters may be a no-no, but
> _testing_ its value is still possible.  So I see no reason to
> set-buffer-multibyte unconditionally, because you may already be in a
> unibyte buffer.

But calling set-buffer-multibyte with the current value is harmless (it
checks a returns right away if there's nothing to do; this check might
even be faster than doing it in Elisp).


        Stefan