From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what happened to fringe customization? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:10:28 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E888494.10004@yahoo.com> References: <5lel4q8rjb.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049134347 7002 80.91.224.249 (31 Mar 2003 18:12:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 20:12:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1903lh-0001oT-00 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:12:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 1903k1-0008HT-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 13:10:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1049134226 3305924 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111531 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8030 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8030 Thomas A. Horsley wrote: > Because all the work I do is with good old stick in the mud 7-bit ascii > files. If random bits of unicode have crept into my files I want to know > about it, and I will if I see lots of octal escapes on the screen (but I > won't if emacs helpfully renders the characters correctly for some > definition of correct :-). For that matter all the files I work with are > Unix format, so if DOS line endings have crept in, I want to know about that > as well by seeing the $#@! ^M characters instead of having them go invisible > on me. Doesn't emacs --unibyte do that for you? -- Kevin Rodgers