Re: where to put eol kludge

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> (thinking out loud...)
> the vms run-time `write' suffixes a gratuitous newline that for emacs 19
> was worked around by adjusting point to be at a newline, and silently
> suffering lack of workaround for gratuitous eof newline (see comment in
> `Fwrite_region').  in trying to adapt this kludge to emacs 21, i gather
> that the emacs 21 write path is now:

>       Fwrite_region
>       a_write
>       e_write
>       emacs_write
>       sys_write
>       write           (vms)

> since emacs_write calls `encode_coding' (which eventually does eol
> encoding handling selective-display as well), i wonder if that might be
> a better place to move the kludge, than from the high level where it is
> currently.  basically what is needed is to adjust the end of the buffer
> that `write' sees so that it ends w/ newline.

It's e_write, not emacs_write, that calls encode-coding.
Anyway, I agree that emacs_write is the better place for
such a job.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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