From: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mac/dos/unix newline conversion without specify from
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:04:58 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2ce5d58-ffc1-4e1b-bb55-d776c2b27bf4@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvlk86iiby.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
what you described wouldn't work if the file is not opened correctly.
in particular, open a file with CR as line return but containing a LF
as the last char. Then, open it in emacs and emacs will show ^M. At
this point, changing the encoding as you described only changes the
last char.
Xah
On Dec 7, 8:27 am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's a good method if you like to get into trouble.
>
> For those who prefer to do things right, then you can C-x RET f mac RET
> and then C-x C-s, or alternatively just click twice on the ":" in the
> left part of the mode line (the first time makes it change from unix to
> dos, the second from dos to mac).
>
> Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 18:04 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
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 [this message]
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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