Re: I do not want to select a coding system

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Every now and then, it becomes completely impossible to save the
> contents of a new file I am creating.  Emacs demands I select a
> coding system and none of them are plain old vanilla ASCII text..
> It seems really nice and clever and egalitarian to allow for so many
> coding systems.  It is really wonderful.  But compilers want ASCII and
> I cannot get plain ascii.  In the end, I go into a shell and type:
> 
> cat > myfile.c <<\_EOF_
> <<paste-a-gazillion-lines>>
> _EOF_
> 
> and revisit "myfile.c".  Works like a charm, but is an incredible hassle.
> 
> I only want ASCII.  I've waded through the bazillion lines of configurable
> stuff, too, and there is no obvious to me selection to say, "I always,
> always, always edit ASCII text".  What is the magic?  Thanks.
> 
> Regards, Bruce
> 
> 


us-ascii and iso-safe are coding systems. Maybe putting

;; -*- coding: iso-safe -*-

at the top of your files would work.