KY> Dear XEmacs developers, KY> In latest 21.5, I found a serious problem that the function KY> `insert-file-contents' will not refer to the coding-system magic KY> cookie in the beginning of a file as follows: KY> ;;; -*- mode: emacs-lisp; coding: iso-2022-7bit -*- Sadly, I noticed that whole versions of XEmacs with mule do not handle the coding-system magic cookie. FSF Emacs shows HELLO file correctly with the following code, but XEmacs does not. (let* ((file "/tmp/TESTING") (buffer (get-file-buffer file))) (when buffer (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) (kill-buffer buffer))) (when (file-exists-p file) (delete-file file)) (setq buffer (get-buffer-create "*testing*")) (save-excursion (set-buffer buffer) (erase-buffer) (insert "＠ -*- coding: iso-2022-7bit -*-\n") (let ((coding-system-for-read 'iso-2022-7bit)) (insert-file-contents (expand-file-name "HELLO" data-directory))) (let ((coding-system-for-write 'iso-2022-7bit)) (write-region (point-min) (point-max) file))) (kill-buffer buffer) (let (coding-system-for-read insert-file-contents-pre-hook file-coding-system-alist buffer-file-coding-system-for-read) (find-file-other-window file))) KY> Here is an emergency patch for it. I will take back this patch KY> if there is a better way. I made an another patch for the latest 21.5 CVS. I believe that it is better than the last one. Could you please examine if it is in place or not? 2001-08-28 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt; * files.el (find-coding-system-magic-cookie-in-file): Use `insert-file-contents-internal' instead of `insert-file-contents'. 2001-08-27 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt; * code-files.el (insert-file-contents): Use `find-coding-system-magic-cookie-in-file'. --- code-files.el~ Fri May 4 22:42:00 2001 +++ code-files.el Tue Aug 28 07:05:37 2001 ＠＠ -329,7 +329,8 ＠＠ 3. The matching value for this filename from `file-coding-system-alist', if any. 4. `buffer-file-coding-system-for-read', if non-nil. -5. The coding system 'raw-text. +5. The result of `find-coding-system-magic-cookie-in-file', if non-nil. +6. The coding system 'raw-text. If a local value for `buffer-file-coding-system' in the current buffer does not exist, it is set to the coding system which was actually used ＠＠ -358,6 +359,11 ＠＠ ;; #4. buffer-file-coding-system-for-read ;; #5. + (let ((codesys + (find-coding-system-magic-cookie-in-file filename))) + (when codesys + (intern codesys))) + ;; #6. 'raw-text)) (if (consp coding-system) (setq return-val coding-system) --- files.el~ Sun Jun 10 10:42:23 2001 +++ files.el Tue Aug 28 07:05:37 2001 ＠＠ -1723,8 +1723,7 ＠＠ ISO 2022 encoding of most non-ASCII charsets." (save-excursion (with-temp-buffer - (let ((coding-system-for-read 'raw-text)) - (insert-file-contents file nil 1 3001)) + (insert-file-contents-internal file nil 0 3000 nil 'raw-text) (goto-char (point-min)) (or (and (looking-at "^[^\n]*-\\*-[^\n]*coding: \\([^ \t\n;]+\\)[^\n]*-\\*-") Regards, -- Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt;