From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 07:25:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvkhuekb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y4y91ba0.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399782386 6148 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2014 04:26:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 04:26:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 11 06:26:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WjLL6-0005sR-L4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 06:26:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjLL6-0007Gb-78 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:26:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54824) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjLKq-0007Fb-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjLKk-000368-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:36753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WjLKj-000364-UT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 00:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N5E008006KNVO00@mtaout26.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 07:23:00 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N5E006YJ6UC3X30@mtaout26.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 May 2014 07:23:00 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87y4y91ba0.fsf@skimble.plus.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97587 Archived-At: > From: Sharon Kimble > Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 00:09:27 +0100 > > When copying and pasting some text from a text document into emacs, it starts > out as - > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but > you don't know if you don't ask. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > but appears as - > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but > you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > How can I get it such that I don't have these problems please, as its > a long-standing problem for me. Your Emacs runs in a text-terminal (a.k.a. -nw) mode, right? If so, try this inside Emacs: C-x RET t utf-8 RET