[Emacs-diffs] emacs/doc/lispref files.texi

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    09/01/10 12:42:58

Modified files:
        doc/lispref    : files.texi 

Log message:
        (Reading from Files): Document that null bytes force no-conversion when 
visiting
        files.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/emacs/doc/lispref/files.texi?cvsroot=emacs&r1=1.16&r2=1.17

Patches:
Index: files.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/doc/lispref/files.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -b -r1.16 -r1.17
--- files.texi  8 Jan 2009 05:28:58 -0000       1.16
+++ files.texi  10 Jan 2009 12:42:58 -0000      1.17
@@ -500,7 +500,10 @@
 Normally, one of the functions in the
 @code{after-insert-file-functions} list determines the coding system
 (@pxref{Coding Systems}) used for decoding the file's contents,
-including end-of-line conversion.
+including end-of-line conversion.  However, if the file contains null
+bytes, it is by default visited without any code conversions; see
address@hidden and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}, for how to
+control this behavior.
 
 If @var{visit} is address@hidden, this function additionally marks the
 buffer as unmodified and sets up various fields in the buffer so that it