Re: hexl-mode, while saving encoding problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.11.2007 um 09:36 schrieb Gelika PAPP-RAFFY:

> Now I have a very basic problem: My emacs installation is on a virtual
> machine with no internet access, so that I can not report the bug  
> from emacs
> directly.

That does not matter! Just select the 'Send Bug Report...' entry from  
the Help menu and copy the contents of the newly created *mail*  
buffer into your eMail client's compose window. Do the same with  
address and subject. Then complete the message's body.

> If this is to be corrected as a bug, then there should be also other
> compressed audio files added to this list (I didn't try to edit  
> them so I am
> not sure they would save wrongly): .wma, .aac, .m4a and probably  
> also ogg
> vorbis files, I don't know the extensions.

There is also FLAC (.flac) and SHTN (.shn) and there are many video  
and graphics formats. Ogg Vorbis uses .ogg, at least in those  
downloaded live concerts I have.

When filling out the bug report please concentrate on the failure of  
hexl-mode, as Stefan Monnier emphasised. IMO too this should not have  
happened, since no-one would edit a simple text file with an encoding  
as a binary in hexl-mode. So there seems to be some bug when you're  
asked to give some text encoding's name. Mentioning of file-coding- 
system-alist should not be the bug report's main concern, merely a  
remark describing how you solved your problem, since its purpose  
might be aiming towards text files.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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