From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to view raw text in Emacs? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:56:37 -0400 Message-ID: <874lkpv5wa.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1522954525 8969 195.159.176.226 (5 Apr 2018 18:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:55:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 05 20:55:20 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 1f4A2a-0002DP-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:55:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4A4f-0005xq-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:57:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4A43-0005wQ-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4A40-0004iy-6I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:56:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60804 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f4A3z-0004iB-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 14:56:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f4A1r-0001P0-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2018 20:54:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:btvPUenppp6NhA31TfnovJ6OkQc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:116356 Archived-At: Sometimes when I'm using Emacs I want to see "what's really there" rather than the view of the text that Emacs is showing me. So far, I have not figured out how to do this. Usually after casting about in Emacs for a solution, the frustration builds sufficiently that I switch to Kate of Gedit to see what I want to see. I would like to learn how to do this in Emacs. For example, I open etc/enriched.txt. I realise that there is more there than I'm seeing and am curious to see what is actually in the file. I try `M-x fundamental-mode RET' which changes nothing. (I don't know why I think it should, but that always seems to be what I try first.) Then I see in the mode line that I'm in "Enriched" mode, so I try `M-x enriched-mode RET' to turn it off, which does seem to turn it off (it's nice that it's intuitive that way), but the view in the buffer doesn't change. I try `M-x set-buffer-coding-system RET raw-text RET', but that doesn't help either. I try `M-x set-buffer-coding-system RET no-conversion RET', but again there is no apparent change. Clearly I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what it is. Any pointers would be welcome. Thanks. N.