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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/>

  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

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