From: "Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@peinc.com>
Subject: Re: reading binary, non-unix file
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:20:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cloho4$kb5$1@quimby.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u654w61tf.fsf@gmail.com
Indeed, it does work. Thanks, Mathias!
Can someone explain the operation of the 'let*' operation? My lisp
understanding is about pre-school level, maybe not even that. I've seen the
'let' operation, but never a 'let*' one. And it's not in my (copyright
1981! - from college days) LISP book.
"Mathias Dahl" <brakjoller@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:u654w61tf.fsf@gmail.com...
> "Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@peinc.com> writes:
>
> I looked at how universal-coding-system-argument works and hacked
> together the following, which seems to do what you want:
>
> (defun find-unicode-file ()
> "Run find-file on a unicode (utf-16-le encoding) file."
> (interactive)
> (let* ((coding-system 'utf-16-le)
> (coding-system-for-read coding-system)
> (coding-system-require-warning t))
> (call-interactively 'find-file)))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 18:47 reading binary, non-unix file Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-22 19:27 ` J. David Boyd
[not found] ` <mailman.4677.1098473798.2017.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-10-22 19:57 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25 6:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-25 17:48 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-26 1:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-10-26 9:05 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-26 17:00 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-27 7:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-27 16:20 ` Mickey Ferguson [this message]
2004-10-27 16:39 ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-27 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-25 21:43 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25 23:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-23 3:44 ` Daniel Pittman
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