From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>,
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Characters saved mismatch?
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 12:46:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2JTR1z6eXNNiOQD594Jy1NSRN7FCFZ30f6MVk5fxKCvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e30f6817-1cee-d4a1-2ff6-d4539f5a8f4a@alice.it>
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On Sun, May 7, 2017, 5:16 AM Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
wrote:
>
>
> Someone should explain the meaning of "Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8
> characters)".
>
As others stated, that's because each newline is counted as 1 character
too.
If it refers to the number of characters, my example contains 6
> characters: f-o-o-b-a-r and not 8.
>
No, it contains 8 characters:
1. f
2. o
3. o
4. Newline (Just 1 character, does not matter if it is 1 byte on unix or 2
bytes on Windows. This is character count, not byte count.)
5. b
6. a
7. r
8. Newline
As I wrote, in Windows Emacs uses DOS style, more precisely 'utf-8-dos'.
> That should mean 1 byte/ch and CR+LF for end line (RET). This mean that
>
> foo RET
> bar RET
>
> should contain (3+2) * 2 = 10 bytes as, 'ls' shows..
>
As written about emacs sees the newline as just 1 character. Emacs is
printing character count, while ls is printing byte count, and thus the
difference.
Visualize that newline character as just 1 character as the "\n" used in
regexps to match newlines.
Then, where does "Wrote ‘c:/msys64/tmp/foo.text’ (8 characters)" came
> from, on Windows?
>
As explained above.
> --
Kaushal Modi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-07 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 23:27 Characters saved mismatch? Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 1:06 ` Paul Eggert
2017-05-07 2:53 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-07 8:06 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 8:52 ` Stephen Berman
2017-05-07 9:02 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 8:56 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 9:15 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 9:25 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 10:50 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 12:41 ` Yuri Khan
2017-05-07 12:46 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-05-07 13:38 ` Angelo Graziosi
2017-05-07 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
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