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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)))

  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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