From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing file end-of-line style
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:41:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831ug83str.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121105132410.GG10005@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:24:10 +0100
> From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> Cc: Emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> This works great! I have a question though. I was aware of the
> set-buffer-file-coding-system command; when I tried it I was prompted
> with utf-8[1] which did not seem to do anything. What confuses me is
> this prompt along with separate markers on the modeline for charset and
> line ending style[2] led me to believe the coding system of the file is
> the charset (as in the characters used in the text) it is using, whereas
> line endings are set by something else.
No, the coding-system includes both the character encoding and the EOL
encoding. See the node "Coding Systems" in the Emacs User Manual.
> >From your answer it seems that is not the case. Does that mean there
> can be several coding system associated to a buffer?
No, there's only one, but it specifies both character and EOL
conversions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 11:57 Changing file end-of-line style Suvayu Ali
2012-11-05 13:08 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-05 13:24 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-11-05 13:58 ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-05 14:05 ` Suvayu Ali
2012-11-06 18:08 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-11-05 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-06 16:48 ` Suvayu Ali
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