From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: fixing M$ character codes
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:06:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brivbhxy.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2ko3egF4flbgU1@uni-berlin.de
nospam55 <nospa@no.yahoo.no> writes:
> I have often to correct manually dowloaded M$ - originating text ,
> i. e. I must bother to do the ethernal replacements, where the codes
> are taken from the well-known
>
> (defvar gnus-article-dumbquotes-map
>
> is there a way for having emacs fix this mess ?
>
> My dream is to have something like
>
> M-x fix-evil-empire-nonsense RET
Sure, the command is called `M-x article-treat-dumbquotes'. It works
in all buffers, not just the Gnus article buffer which it is intended
for.
You'll probably need to autoload it if you're using an infidel Usenet
client not approved by Gnus Towers and the Church of Emacs.
--
Jesper Harder <http://purl.org/harder/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-04 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-03 16:00 fixing M$ character codes nospam55
[not found] ` <Jym.wzfz884ct0.fsf@econet.org>
2004-07-04 13:19 ` nospam55
2004-07-04 14:08 ` Jym Dyer
2004-07-05 10:00 ` Haines Brown
2004-07-05 10:19 ` Thomas Gehrlein
2004-07-07 15:12 ` Jym Dyer
2004-07-07 20:38 ` Haines Brown
2004-07-15 16:59 ` Jym Dyer
2004-07-04 21:06 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-07-05 14:22 ` nospam55
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m3brivbhxy.fsf@defun.localdomain \
--to=harder@myrealbox.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).