From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:11:53 -0500 Message-ID: <45EF62D9.8010105@speakeasy.net> References: <45ED8574.3040201@speakeasy.net> <45EF2512.9060200@speakeasy.net> <45EF28B8.2050905@speakeasy.net> <953CC6C7-14E6-4321-8899-665613380DC2@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173316361 13869 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 01:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 01:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 02:12:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HP7BK-0004lX-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:12:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HP7BT-0005sF-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HP7Av-0005jz-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:12:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HP7At-0005jA-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HP7At-0005j4-PE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HP7Aj-0004j3-M7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 111 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2007 01:11:55 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 8 Mar 2007 01:11:55 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0pre (X11/20070214) In-Reply-To: <953CC6C7-14E6-4321-8899-665613380DC2@Web.DE> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41773 Archived-At: On 03/07/2007 04:30 PM somebody named Peter Dyballa wrote: > > Am 07.03.2007 um 22:03 schrieb ken: > >> Sorry... in the below it should say 5542 instead of 5442. > > Sorry, doesn't work like that in my GNU Emacs 22.0.93! I have both > times, in UTF-8 encoded buffers, the Greek small letter beta, i.e. > ``β´´. And I use C-u C-x = to determine what it is. > > Can you take a bit of care on the few characters left of the leftmost > ``:´´ in the mode-line? These characters, by which the mode-line > actually starts on the left, show the encoding used in that buffer. This > information is as important as the name of the currency unit on your > coins or bank-notes. I mean, what are 1 million Lire?! > >.... The first buffer is a *scratch* buffer, the modeline starts "--:". The second contains the *.el file mentioned in the original post; its modeline begins "-:". Good analogy about currency. Via email I get all kinds. I want to convert it all into something I can use... otherwise it's garbage. So I want to convert it into something I can use. But emacs isn't letting me convert it because it's converting it to something else which it won't let me insert into my conversion function's buffer/file. -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler