From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: decode-coding-string question
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:48:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86pro5w1y7.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tbnqk.26764$j7.472737@news.indigo.ie
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:01:07 +0100 David Golden <david.golden@oceanfree.net> wrote:
DG> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I often have to open mangled files with mixed-up encodings; it's
>> convenient to set the coding-system after I look at the text, and only
>> apply it to a region.
>>
DG> M-x recode-region
DG> also exists (at least in CVS emacs, no idea when it was introduced).
That's exactly what I needed (and it's nicely interactive too). I did
apropos for 'decod' and didn't see 'recode-*'.
Thanks
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 21:02 decode-coding-string question Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-14 22:19 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2008-08-15 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-15 15:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-15 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16821.1218819933.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-18 13:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-18 16:09 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-08-18 17:45 ` David Golden
2008-08-18 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-19 8:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.16993.1219086714.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-18 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-18 23:01 ` David Golden
2008-08-19 13:48 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.16762.1218785885.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-15 16:06 ` Dmitry Dzhus
2008-08-14 22:20 ` David Golden
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