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From: | Lennart Borgman |
Subject: | Re: How to change line endings - where is it explained? |
Date: | Sun, 14 May 2006 22:17:44 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Thanks for the index entries and for adding CRLF in a relevant place in the elisp manual.Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 07:48:43 +0200 From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> CC: address@hiddenYes, it is described in the node "Text and Binray". What did you try to look for it? Perhaps we need to improve the indexing.Thanks, yes I wonder why I missed that. A couple of small things perhaps: - The name of the node is a bit "C style". - I looked for "line endings". - I looked for "line end conversion".- I actually also searched for CRLF, but possibly only in the elisp manual since I wanted to do the conversion in code. - I was thinking about coding systems, but somehow I missed that you could use just 'unix or 'dos for the coding system in some operations. - I looked at the node "(emacs) Files" which says it tells everything about files.- I looked at `buffer-file-coding-system' etc.I added some index entries that should make this search easier.
Oh, I found it! But I did not see it before. The reason is that I am nearly always searching, not reading. In "(emacs) Visiting" the term for line endings is "convention it uses to separate lines". Could perhaps "(line endings)" be added right after this? :- Something about line endings too in "(emacs) Files", possibly in connection with the link above.Ditto: "Visiting" already talks about EOLs.
convention it uses to separate lines (line endings) -- newline (used on ...
I just checked out a fresh copy from CVS and I am afraid I still can not find anything about the use of just 'dos, 'unix and 'mac like in- "(emacs) Coding Systems" should mention 'dos, 'unix and 'mac.It already does, please take a closer look.
M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system RET unix RETAs I understand it this changes just the line endings to unix style (LF). Would it not be good to mention this feature?
- "(elisp) Files" should mention line endings.I added the references to code and EOL conversions to the appropriate sections of files.texi.
Thanks.
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