From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:50:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <45ED8574.3040201@speakeasy.net> <45EF2512.9060200@speakeasy.net> <45EF28B8.2050905@speakeasy.net> <953CC6C7-14E6-4321-8899-665613380DC2@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173343227 17004 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2007 08:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 09:40:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HPEAe-0002zx-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:40:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HPEAq-0003BS-0t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:50:59 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HixtUaVMrMAXDeft3tMpQjgUeNw= Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-x1THLizd7zHZ8hycBASLKg/prNdqCeuC5mVPPhp52kLBQJyV1DHyMKdw2LRZD/V2ghTfNZAOzUPbS8N!5V8cETgtJ83xZuz97aXp0pXzL1AjDpJCmpRaNKHDoqhavdkeN/acREcdWLeXfTraA9e1MAwNdSzo!yfpDJN/z5VK6CuyQvg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146176 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41780 Archived-At: > The first buffer is a *scratch* buffer, the modeline starts "--:". The > second contains the *.el file mentioned in the original post; its > modeline begins "-:". For some reason this second buffer is in unibyte mode. That's the source of your problem. Tell us how you created that buffer. Stefan