[slime-devel] Re: C-c C-k with external-format latin

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net>:

| * Nicolas Neuss [2006-10-31 13:53+0100] writes:
| 
| > How can I make C-c C-k (slime-compile-and-load-file) use an external format
| > of :latin-1?
| 
| You can add a file variable: -*- slime-coding: iso-latin-1-unix -*-
| and Slime should send it to the Lisp process.  
| 
| It would be nicer if we could just use "coding" but that wasn't easy
| to do.

Why not?  What happens if you try using buffer-file-coding-system, if
set, and default-buffer-file-coding-system otherwise?

(Not that I doubt your word, but I get curious.)

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