From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to view raw text in Emacs? Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 10:17:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83po3c2493.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874lkpv5wa.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <87h8opjqro.fsf@bsb.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522998929 30078 195.159.176.226 (6 Apr 2018 07:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 07:15:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 09:15:25 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f4Lam-0007k4-TQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:15:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59997 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4Lcs-0006t6-Gd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4LcK-0006sk-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4LcH-0001hc-9d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59137) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4LcH-0001hW-5c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4466 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f4LcG-0006rM-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2018 03:16:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h8opjqro.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (message from Ben Bacarisse on Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:18:51 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116366 Archived-At: > From: Ben Bacarisse > Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 22:18:51 +0100 > > A word of caution from this function's description > > If Emacs already has a buffer which is visiting the file, you > get the existing buffer, regardless of whether it was created > literally or not. "Same buffer" doesn't mean the same contents. When the file is already being visited, you can get the same buffer, but its contents will be erased and populated anew with literally what's in the file, without any conversions.