From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mac/dos/unix newline conversion without specify from Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:38:57 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5cdf0ef4-3254-4a4e-b24a-6589224d6676@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <9fce01a5-ed79-4981-8b02-29e335b694cd@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <168cd816-9fd4-49e8-a2a6-fe2ff6cf69a0@s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <85zlwptc5l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17f871e1-56be-4269-8e44-9fb2652b02f6@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197074451 5791 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2007 00:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 08 01:41:00 2007 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 1J0nkY-0004IB-WA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0nkH-0006fR-Qp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.236.121.223 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197074337 27111 127.0.0.1 (8 Dec 2007 00:38:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.236.121.223; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154504 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:49933 Archived-At: Dear Stefan Monnier, When is the last time you sucked your mom's tits? Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/ On Dec 7, 2:30 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > what you described wouldn't work if the file is not opened correctly. > > It also doesn't work if you want to cook an egg. But that's not very > relevant, is it? As you can see in the text I quoted, I was replying to > method that starts with "Open a unix file, ...". > > Stefan > > > in particular, open a file with CR as line return but containing a LF > > as the last char. Then, open it in emacs and emacs will show ^M. At > > this point, changing the encoding as you described only changes the > > last char. > > Xah > > On Dec 7, 8:27 am, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > Open a unix file, do replace-string from LF to CR. Save the file. Then > >> > start emacs with -q, open the file. It doesn't interprete the file as > >> > a mac os classic file but instead display newline char as ^M. > > >> That's a good method if you like to get into trouble. > > >> For those who prefer to do things right, then you can C-x RET f mac RET > >> and then C-x C-s, or alternatively just click twice on the ":" in the > >> left part of the mode line (the first time makes it change from unix to > >> dos, the second from dos to mac). > > >> Stefan