From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:42:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Reading from Files): Document that null bytes force no-conversion when visiting X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~572 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7951ad77ddb6351312bd5c88af082af80787612e;p=emacs.git (Reading from Files): Document that null bytes force no-conversion when visiting files. --- diff --git a/doc/lispref/files.texi b/doc/lispref/files.texi index c6209c6b546..17d439725d5 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/files.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/files.texi @@ -500,7 +500,10 @@ the list @code{after-insert-file-functions}. @xref{Format Conversion}. 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 +@ref{Lisp and Coding Systems, inhibit-null-byte-detection}, for how to +control this behavior. If @var{visit} is non-@code{nil}, this function additionally marks the buffer as unmodified and sets up various fields in the buffer so that it