From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't paste from files with .arc extension Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:02:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <397b3f92-b993-4ea0-9f01-582b96e269dd@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <461c7cd6-a0d6-493c-b268-3faca25de0d8@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com> <0fbce23f-6cf5-4dce-84ec-74597c239481@v3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204909872 22694 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 17:11:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 17:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Brian Adkins Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 18:11:37 2008 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 1JXg6a-0005aD-QY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:11:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXg62-0003jK-Tg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXfxe-00080L-EC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXfxc-0007zJ-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXfxb-0007z8-Ni for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXfxa-0000qN-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFB1D1ED914; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:02:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [195.4.205.62] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1JXfxZ-0006cE-00; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:02:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <0fbce23f-6cf5-4dce-84ec-74597c239481@v3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/aTSY6yuRJHc5ytDyGTd1Gmh+YHrDbpDS4a7kR osTRKT5Qs3vC0ukSSv8cALOeeH6D/viN3vDZDVS1XVgZkAnX+M ndYawkuQS/awVM9h34BQ== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:52136 Archived-At: Am 07.03.2008 um 17:18 schrieb Brian Adkins: > Given that I'm running without a .emacs file, I would think this would > be easy to duplicate. Just load a text file with a .arc extension and > try and select test in emacs and middle-button paste in a non-emacs > window. When I do that, I get nothing. In that case you might run into an error: auto-mode-alist will have ("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|lha\\|zoo\\|[jew]ar\\|xpi\\|rar\\|ARC\\| ZIP\\|LZH\\|LHA\\|ZOO\\|[JEW]AR\\|XPI\\|RAR\\)\\'" . archive-mode) Copying a text file to name.arc and opening it in 'emacs -Q' gives me a Fundamental View and no problems with copy and paste. Problems start when the "ARC" file contains control characters or characters that cannot be displayed in the buffer's encoding and therefore are printed as \. Having set LC_CTYPE to _.UTF-8 I don't get autocomposed characters ... -- Greetings Pete <\ _\ O _ |o \ _\\_/-\=' _____________(_)|-(_) (_)___________________________________