Re: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       In addition, I don't know what is "all the relevant
>     information" for a user.   One may want to see the info
>     shown by C-u C-x =, one may want to see the docstring of
>     each coding system, ...

> I am talking about the interesting parts of the output of C-u C-x =.
> All or part of this:

>   character: á (2273, #o4341, #x8e1, U+00E1)
>     charset: latin-iso8859-1
>            (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
>    category: l:Latin
>    to input: type "a'" with latin-1-postfix

> How about putting some of that into the warning buffer?

> It need not be ALL of those 5 lines -- just whatever part seems
> useful.  And the parts we use could be combined so as to
> occupy fewer lines.  That ought to avoid the problem of making the
> warning too long so that it always needs scrolling.

I think such a change is beyond the work that should be done
while feature freezing.  So, I put that in my TODO list.

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Kenichi Handa
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