The problem here was caused by the call to set-buffer-multibyte, which is a questionable function. There are 13 remaining calls to this function in the current version. I will keep this bug report alive until I have looked at all the 13.
-- "Display using External Viewer" produces corrupt file under emacs 23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495089 You received this bug notification because you are a member of VM development team, which is the registrant for VM. Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: In Progress Bug description: The "Display using External Viewer" menu option isn't working under Emacs-23. The file produced is corrupted and typically is slightly smaller than it should be. This is with vm 7.19. With emacs 22.1 this problem doesn't happen. The "Save to File" does work, however. I found that by removing the call to set-buffer-multibyte in vm-mime-display-external-generic the problem went away. % diff -c vm-mime.el.orig vm-mime.el *** vm-mime.el.orig Tue Dec 1 11:07:31 2009 --- vm-mime.el Thu Dec 10 10:12:31 2009 *************** *** 1967,1973 **** (vm-mime-transfer-decode-region layout (point-min) (point-max)) ! (set-buffer-multibyte t) (set-buffer target) (setq start (point)) (insert-buffer-substring work-buffer) --- 1967,1973 ---- (vm-mime-transfer-decode-region layout (point-min) (point-max)) ! ;; (set-buffer-multibyte t) (set-buffer target) (setq start (point)) (insert-buffer-substring work-buffer) % Examples of using the "Save to File" -rw------- 1 sharman gx5000 3310 Dec 10 10:13 test.gif -rw------- 1 sharman gx5000 3424 Dec 10 10:13 test.jpeg sharmanpc 19% whearas when using "Display using External Viewer" the temporary file was a different size -rw------- 1 sharman gx5000 3302 Dec 10 10:12 test.gif -rw------- 1 sharman gx5000 3420 Dec 10 10:12 test.jpeg _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
