Re: compiling option for nomule

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es&gt; writes: Uwe> I try to talk to the debian package manager and ask him about Uwe> his reasons. That's simple. More Debian users exchange files with Windows systems than edit "binary" files that look like text. Most people only edit text files, and they consider files with embedded control characters other than tabs and whatever the system newline convention is to be already corrupted. The defaults are set up for "most people." If you want to turn it off personally at runtime, you just do (setq file-coding-system-alist '(("" . binary))) in your init file. But all you're really doing by turning off file-coding or mule is guaranteeing that the large set of users who need/want mule or file-coding will never be able to rely on x-symbol, and you won't be able to support them.