From: Chong Yidong Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 23:10:41 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Add minor comment (Bug#7001). X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.90~104^2~275^2~438^2~46^2~241 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=986d19df1f2a63d8aa443f2132a6dced3bb9a4a4;p=emacs.git Add minor comment (Bug#7001). --- diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el index 56661b6afcd..c0dc1764647 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el @@ -1801,12 +1801,13 @@ With argument ARG, insert value in current buffer after the form." (erase-buffer) ;; (emacs-lisp-mode) (setq case-fold-search nil) - ;; This is a kludge. Some operating systems (OS/2, DOS) need to - ;; write files containing binary information specially. + ;; This is a kludge. Some operating systems (OS/2, DOS) need + ;; to write files containing binary information specially. ;; Under most circumstances, such files will be in binary ;; overwrite mode, so those OS's use that flag to guess how ;; they should write their data. Advise them that .elc files - ;; need to be written carefully. + ;; need to be written carefully. (There's no point running the + ;; mode hook, so don't call `binary-overwrite-mode'.) (setq overwrite-mode 'overwrite-mode-binary)) (displaying-byte-compile-warnings (with-current-buffer bytecomp-inbuffer