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diff etc/NEWS @ 29509:fc84e59f692c
Preferred coding system change.
author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:04:30 +0000 |
parents | 096cd250bd8d |
children | 9609bc6529ac |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Thu Jun 08 15:54:26 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Thu Jun 08 16:04:30 2000 +0000 @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ * Changes in Emacs 21.1 +** The most preferred coding-system is now used to save a buffer if +buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and it is safe for the buffer +contents. (The most preferred is set by set-language-environment or +by M-x prefer-coding-system.) Thus if you visit an ASCII file and +insert a non-ASCII character from your current language environment, +the file will be saved silently with the appropriate coding. +Previously you would be prompted for a safe coding system. + ** Variable `default-korean-keyboard' is initialized properly from the environment variable `HANGUL_KEYBOARD_TYPE'. @@ -1211,6 +1219,10 @@ * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) +** select-safe-coding-system now also checks the most preferred +coding-system if buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and +DEFAULT-CODING-SYSTEM is not specified, + ** The function `subr-arity' provides information on the argument list of a primitive.