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| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-08-22 17:15:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-08-22 17:15:20 -0400 |
| commit | 198a7a97ff99b96523f7c0736aa303d305595094 (patch) | |
| tree | 956fc21f7bd577ca58c981dd67859409dfb0153e /doc | |
| parent | b0126eac41487b9bca5af5cbb2212ff5b2c58b80 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-198a7a97ff99b96523f7c0736aa303d305595094.tar.gz | |
Make obsolete --unibyte argument do nothing (Bug#6886).
* src/emacs.c (main): Remove --unibyte handling (Bug#6886).
* lisp/startup.el (command-line-1): Issue warning for ignored arguments
--unibyte, etc (Bug#6886).
* doc/lispref/nonascii.texi (Text Representations):
* doc/lispref/loading.texi (Loading Non-ASCII):
* doc/lispref/compile.texi (Byte Compilation): Don't mention obsolete
--unibyte command-line argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/compile.texi | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/loading.texi | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/nonascii.texi | 3 |
4 files changed, 7 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index 9c09410c849..70b82830b44 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ 2010-08-22 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + * nonascii.texi (Text Representations): + * loading.texi (Loading Non-ASCII): + * compile.texi (Byte Compilation): Don't mention obsolete + --unibyte command-line argument. + +2010-08-22 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> + * modes.texi (Defining Minor Modes): Doc fix (Bug#6880). 2010-08-22 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> diff --git a/doc/lispref/compile.texi b/doc/lispref/compile.texi index 1c28664e7c3..69b57f19ea7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/compile.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/compile.texi @@ -22,12 +22,6 @@ hardware (as true compiled code is), byte-code is completely transportable from machine to machine without recompilation. It is not, however, as fast as true compiled code. - Compiling a Lisp file with the Emacs byte compiler always reads the -file as multibyte text, even if Emacs was started with @samp{--unibyte}, -unless the file specifies otherwise. This is so that compilation gives -results compatible with running the same file without compilation. -@xref{Loading Non-ASCII}. - In general, any version of Emacs can run byte-compiled code produced by recent earlier versions of Emacs, but the reverse is not true. diff --git a/doc/lispref/loading.texi b/doc/lispref/loading.texi index bbdd67fc3a5..dee2a0252eb 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/loading.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/loading.texi @@ -367,13 +367,6 @@ example) is read without decoding, the text of the program will be unibyte text, and its string constants will be unibyte strings. @xref{Coding Systems}. - To make the results more predictable, Emacs always performs decoding -into the multibyte representation when loading Lisp files, even if it -was started with the @samp{--unibyte} option. This means that string -constants with non-@acronym{ASCII} characters translate into multibyte -strings. The only exception is when a particular file specifies no -decoding. - The reason Emacs is designed this way is so that Lisp programs give predictable results, regardless of how Emacs was started. In addition, this enables programs that depend on using multibyte text to work even diff --git a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi index 00a1dffed6a..40c78d97da7 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/nonascii.texi @@ -102,9 +102,6 @@ it contains unibyte encoded text or binary non-text data. You cannot set this variable directly; instead, use the function @code{set-buffer-multibyte} to change a buffer's representation. - -The @samp{--unibyte} command line option does its job by setting the -default value to @code{nil} early in startup. @end defvar @defun position-bytes position |