Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[Aaron Davies]

How do I specify unix as the default coding system for new files? I'm
running emacs 21 under cygwin, and I want new files to be created
unix-mode, not dos-mode. I can't figure out how to change the variable
though.
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Re: Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[martin]

hi,

i didn't do this before myself. i just found the variables
auto-coding-regexp-alist and auto-coding-alist by

M-x apropos-variable RET -coding- RET

martin

"AD" == Aaron Davies <aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com> writes:
 AD> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
 AD> Organization: Columbia University
 AD> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:56:48 -0500
 AD> 
 AD> How do I specify unix as the default coding system for new files? I'm
 AD> running emacs 21 under cygwin, and I want new files to be created
 AD> unix-mode, not dos-mode. I can't figure out how to change the variable
 AD> though.
 AD> -- 
 AD> Aaron Davies
 AD> Opinions expressed are solely those of a random number generator.
 AD> "I don't know if it's real or not but it is a myth."
 AD> -Jami JoAnne of alt.folklore.urban, showing her grasp on reality.
 AD> 
 AD> 
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Re: Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[Aaron Davies]

Thanks, but I'm not sure those have anything to do with what I want.
They seem to be ways to specify the coding system to use when reading
existing files; I want to specify the coding system for new files.

martin <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i didn't do this before myself. i just found the variables
> auto-coding-regexp-alist and auto-coding-alist by
> 
> M-x apropos-variable RET -coding- RET
> 
> martin
> 
> "AD" == Aaron Davies <aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com> writes:
>  AD> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>  AD> Organization: Columbia University
>  AD> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:56:48 -0500
>  AD> 
>  AD> How do I specify unix as the default coding system for new files? I'm
>  AD> running emacs 21 under cygwin, and I want new files to be created
>  AD> unix-mode, not dos-mode. I can't figure out how to change the variable
>  AD> though.
>  AD> -- 
>  AD> Aaron Davies
>  AD> Opinions expressed are solely those of a random number generator.
>  AD> "I don't know if it's real or not but it is a myth."
>  AD> -Jami JoAnne of alt.folklore.urban, showing her grasp on reality.
>  AD> 
>  AD> 


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Aaron Davies
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"I don't know if it's real or not but it is a myth."
-Jami JoAnne of alt.folklore.urban, showing her grasp on reality.

Re: Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[Kai Großjohann]

aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com (Aaron Davies) writes:

> Thanks, but I'm not sure those have anything to do with what I want.
> They seem to be ways to specify the coding system to use when reading
> existing files; I want to specify the coding system for new files.

default-buffer-file-coding-system seems to be the right variable.
Its documentation points to buffer-file-coding-system which states
that the value is used for writing.
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Re: Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com (Aaron Davies)
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:56:48 -0500
> 
> How do I specify unix as the default coding system for new files? I'm
> running emacs 21 under cygwin, and I want new files to be created
> unix-mode, not dos-mode. I can't figure out how to change the variable
> though.

Is that an Emacs compiled as a Cygwin application?  If so, I'd expect
it to do what you want by default.

If Emacs is compiled with MinGW or MSVC, then please read about the
untranslated-filesystem feature in the node "Text and Binary" of the
Emacs manual.

Re: Customizing default-buffer-file-coding-system

[Aaron Davies]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:

> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > From: aaron@avalon.pascal-central.com (Aaron Davies)
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:56:48 -0500
> > 
> > How do I specify unix as the default coding system for new files? I'm
> > running emacs 21 under cygwin, and I want new files to be created
> > unix-mode, not dos-mode. I can't figure out how to change the variable
> > though.
> 
> Is that an Emacs compiled as a Cygwin application?  If so, I'd expect
> it to do what you want by default.
> 
> If Emacs is compiled with MinGW or MSVC, then please read about the
> untranslated-filesystem feature in the node "Text and Binary" of the
> Emacs manual.

It's "GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-windows98.2222)" by the splash screen.
I also have the cygwin emacs, but it looks like it would take quite a
bit of configuration to get the keyboard and mouse and so on working
right, so I'd prefer to stick with the MSVC version.

Anyway, putting (add-untranslated-filesystem "C:") in my .emacs seems to
solve the problem. Thanks!
-- 
Aaron Davies
Opinions expressed are solely those of a random number generator.
"I don't know if it's real or not but it is a myth."
-Jami JoAnne of alt.folklore.urban, showing her grasp on reality.