From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
To: GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: I do not want to select a coding system
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 14:41:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <668c430c1002041441y22f55b43o9796ee26faef20b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
Every now and then, it becomes completely impossible to save the
contents of a new file I am creating. Emacs demands I select a
coding system and none of them are plain old vanilla ASCII text..
It seems really nice and clever and egalitarian to allow for so many
coding systems. It is really wonderful. But compilers want ASCII and
I cannot get plain ascii. In the end, I go into a shell and type:
cat > myfile.c <<\_EOF_
<<paste-a-gazillion-lines>>
_EOF_
and revisit "myfile.c". Works like a charm, but is an incredible hassle.
I only want ASCII. I've waded through the bazillion lines of configurable
stuff, too, and there is no obvious to me selection to say, "I always,
always, always edit ASCII text". What is the magic? Thanks.
Regards, Bruce
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 22:41 Bruce Korb [this message]
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2010-02-04 23:02 ` I do not want to select a coding system B. T. Raven
2010-02-05 0:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-05 5:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-04 23:17 ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-04 23:18 ` Tim X
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