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| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-10-02 19:10:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2010-10-02 19:10:41 -0400 |
| commit | 986d19df1f2a63d8aa443f2132a6dced3bb9a4a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 705422cca351bd77241d1e1d8c0aff45757ab360 /lisp/emacs-lisp | |
| parent | f3fd95db3a292977b608911bedb247bcadb38a39 (diff) | |
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Add minor comment (Bug#7001).
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
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 |