all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mac/dos/unix newline conversion without specify from
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:05:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85hcixt6ld.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1eb0de3a-9c0f-4488-b05a-1ef36df87871@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com

Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:

> Xah Lee 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.>>
>
> David Kastrup wrote:
> <<
> It does switch to Mac endings here in this case.  Just tried it.
>>>
>
> mm... interesting. Here's a sample file for what's worth:
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/x-unixmacdos-eol/x1mac

That's because html-mode sets require-final-newline to t.  If you reset
it to nil and then save, you get the file saved without a final
(non-Macish-looking) LF character, and it gets recognized correctly when
loading it again.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-02 18:14 mac/dos/unix newline conversion without specify from Xah Lee
2007-12-04 14:18 ` David Reitter
2007-12-05 14:37   ` Xah Lee
2007-12-05 15:05     ` David Kastrup
2007-12-05 16:16       ` Xah Lee
2007-12-05 16:25         ` David Kastrup
2007-12-05 16:51           ` Xah Lee
2007-12-05 17:05             ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-12-07 18:03               ` Xah Lee
2007-12-07 22:35                 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-07 16:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-07 18:04           ` Xah Lee
2007-12-07 22:30             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-08  0:38               ` Xah Lee
2007-12-08 11:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.4757.1197114470.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-08 17:12                   ` Xah Lee
2007-12-09  1:23                     ` David Kastrup

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=85hcixt6ld.fsf@lola.goethe.zz \
    --to=dak@gnu.org \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.