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bug#51740: 27.2; find-file-literally doesn't respect saveplace-mode
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#51740: 27.2; find-file-literally doesn't respect saveplace-mode |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:27:52 +0200 |
> From: Scott Otterson <scotto@sharpleaf.org>
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 19:06:52 -0800
>
> The simplest way to make this better is to not allow find-file-literally to
> change the save-place-mode state.
I think this is the only solution.
> Better would be if it opened the file at the same cursor position as would
> find-file, and upon exit, appropriately
> set the save-place-mode state.
That's not really possible, since find-file-literally reads the file
into a buffer in a way that can completely change the relation between
the buffer position and the corresponding file byte offset -- due to
decoding of text and other transformations that affect this.