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 17:25:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85prxlt8g0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17f871e1-56be-4269-8e44-9fb2652b02f6@a35g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org> writes:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> <<Carbon Emacs 22 and also Aquamacs (launched with -q), does not open a
> file with classic Mac OS line endings properly? (i.e. EOL shows up as
> ^M)>>
>
> David Kastrup:
> <<More likely than not, you have a file with inconsistent line end
> characters. In that case, Emacs has to choose "-unix" line encoding
> or it would change the file when writing it back to disk.>>
>
> jackpot :)
Huh? Inconsistent with what you write now:
> 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.
It does switch to Mac endings here in this case. Just tried it.
> given the current situation, how to instruct emacs (as a user) to open
> a file with CR as EOL?
You can always do something like C-x RET c latin-1-mac RET C-x C-f file RET
but again: this should not be necessary at all.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 16:25 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 [this message]
2007-12-05 16:51 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-05 17:05 ` David Kastrup
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
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