+ Helmut Eller heller@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.)