Problem w/ CRLF

[Feghhi, Jalil]

I have downloaded emacs 21.3 from the gnu ftp site 
(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/pub/gnu/emacs/) and have problems when opening and 
saving files using emacs. Basically, what happens is as soon as I open and save 
a text file, the linefeed changes to the unix style and my files get corrupted. 
I even created a new file with emacs, which got saved fine. However, as soon as 
I opened it again and saved it, it got corrupted.

The following emails have more info on this issue. If you need more info or if 
there is a workaround, please let me know.

-Jalil


 <<RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files>>  <<Re: Windows text files saved 
as Unix files>>  <<RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files>>  <<RE: Windows 
text files saved as Unix files>>  <<RE: Windows text files saved as Unix 
files>>  <<RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files>>  <<RE: Windows text 
files saved as Unix files>>  <<Windows text files saved as Unix files>> 
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> Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:35:13 -0800
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> iso-latin-1-dos
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> -Jalil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:51 AM
> To: Jalil Feghhi
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:23:27 -0800
> > 
> > GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-11-10 on NYAUMO
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> Very strange...
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> What does Emacs say if you type this:
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>      M-: (default-value 'buffeer-file-coding-system) RET"
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> Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> Fri, 12 Mar 2004 05:51:11 -0800
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> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:23:27 -0800
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> > GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-11-10 on NYAUMO
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> Very strange...
>
> What does Emacs say if you type this:
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>      M-: (default-value 'buffeer-file-coding-system) RET"
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> RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:23:27 -0800
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> Sorry. It says:
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> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2003-11-10 on NYAUMO
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> -Jalil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:17 PM
> To: Feghhi, Jalil
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:46:30 -0800
> > 
> > I have 21.3.1. I downloaded it from ftp.gnu.org and ungziped an untared it in 
> > my cygwin window.
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> Thanks, but please tell me what does Emacs say when you type "M-x
> emacs-version RET".  It's important for me to know that.
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> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:46:30 -0800
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> I have 21.3.1. I downloaded it from ftp.gnu.org and ungziped an untared it in 
> my cygwin window.
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> By the way, I removed that line from my .emacs. I still have the same problem 
> even when I open .emacs!!
>
> -Jalil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:21 AM
> To: Jalil Feghhi
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:47:27 -0800
> > 
> > Thanks for your response. I am opening old files. All I know is that when I 
> > open these files with Notepad, they look fine and when I edit them w/ emacs 
> > and then open them again with Notepad they don't look good b/c of new line 
> > problems. 
>
> Very strange.  What version of Emacs is that?  What does Emacs print
> when you type "M-x emacs-version RET"?
>
> > ;; added by me to take care of this problem but didn't help.
> > (add-untranslated-filesystem "C:")
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> That is exactly what you do NOT want to have in your .emacs.  This
> tells Emacs to create all files on the C: drive with Unix end-of-line
> format.  So you want to remove this line.
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> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:54:02 -0800
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> Eli,
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> I just had another email from somebody which asked me to:
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> use C-x RET f (runs the command set-buffer-file-coding-system) and
> type "dos" RET at the command prompt. then save the file and that's
> it.
>
> This worked. When I did the 'C-x RET f', the coding system showed as nil. I 
> thought
> this might help with troubleshoot.
>
> -Jalil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feghhi, Jalil 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:47 AM
> To: 'Eli Zaretskii'
> Subject: RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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>
> Eli,
>
> Thanks for your response. I am opening old files. All I know is that when I 
> open these files with Notepad, they look fine and when I edit them w/ emacs and 
> then open them again with Notepad they don't look good b/c of new line 
> problems. 
>
> I tested creating new files and they looked fine in Notepad. I ran emacs with 
> -q and still had the same problems. Please let me know how I can troubleshoot. 
> I appreciate your help.
>
> Here is my .emacs:
>
> (custom-set-variables
>   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  '(case-fold-search t)
>  '(current-language-environment "Latin-1")
>  '(default-input-method "latin-1-prefix"))
> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  )
> ;; added by me to take care of this problem but didn't help.
> (add-untranslated-filesystem "C:")
>
>
> -Jalil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:54 PM
> To: Feghhi, Jalil
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
>
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> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:57:10 -0800
> > 
> > I just installed the Windows versions of emacs and when I edit text files on 
> > my Windows they are saved with unix-stype linefeeds. When I open these files, 
> > I see Unix at the left hand side of the buffer too.
> > 
> > I searched for some time and found several articles on this but nothing that 
> > could help me. How can I fix this problem? Also, why the default installation 
> > for Windows is like this?
>
> Are these new files you create with Emacs, or are these existing
> files you edit?
>
> If the latter, Emacs preserves their original end-of-line format; if
> they originally had Unix-style linefeeds, Emacs will save the edited
> file with the same end-of-line format.
>
> If these are new files created by Emacs, it's probably something in
> your customization, as by default Emacs on Windows creates files with
> Windows-style CR-LF pairs at the end of each line.  Try invoking Emacs
> with "emacs -q" and see if that helps; if it does, look inside your
> .emacs (or _emacs) init file for some customization that causes this.
> Things to watch for are setting of the defaults for files'
> coding-system and use of untranslated-filesystem feature.
>
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> RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:52:23 -0800
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> Martin,
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> Thanks for your help. This works. But, how can have emacs do this 
> automatically? I checked and I am fine when creating new files but when I open 
> old files, this problem happen. 
>
> -Jalil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:37 PM
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
>
>
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gnu.emacs.help as well.
>
>
> "FJ" == Feghhi, Jalil <address@hidden> writes:
>  FJ> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:57:10 -0800
>  FJ> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> I just installed the Windows versions of emacs and when I edit text
>  FJ> files on my Windows they are saved with unix-stype linefeeds. When I
>  FJ> open these files, I see Unix at the left hand side of the buffer too.
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> I searched for some time and found several articles on this but
>  FJ> nothing that could help me. How can I fix this problem?
>
> hi,
>
> use C-x RET f (runs the command set-buffer-file-coding-system) and
> type "dos" RET at the command prompt. then save the file and that's
> it.
>
> martin
>
>  FJ> Also, why the default installation for Windows is like this?
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> Thanks for the help.
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> -Jalil ps. Please reply to my email address as I am not part of the
>  FJ> mailing list yet.
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> 
>  FJ> 
> -- 
> martin dot fischer at boschrexroth dot de
>
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> --- Begin Message ---
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> Subject: 
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> RE: Windows text files saved as Unix files
>
>
>
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> Date: 
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> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 06:47:27 -0800
>
>
>
>
> Eli,
>
> Thanks for your response. I am opening old files. All I know is that when I 
> open these files with Notepad, they look fine and when I edit them w/ emacs and 
> then open them again with Notepad they don't look good b/c of new line 
> problems. 
>
> I tested creating new files and they looked fine in Notepad. I ran emacs with 
> -q and still had the same problems. Please let me know how I can troubleshoot. 
> I appreciate your help.
>
> Here is my .emacs:
>
> (custom-set-variables
>   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  '(case-fold-search t)
>  '(current-language-environment "Latin-1")
>  '(default-input-method "latin-1-prefix"))
> (custom-set-faces
>   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
>   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  )
> ;; added by me to take care of this problem but didn't help.
> (add-untranslated-filesystem "C:")
>
>
> -Jalil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:54 PM
> To: Feghhi, Jalil
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Windows text files saved as Unix files
>
>
> > From: "Feghhi, Jalil" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:57:10 -0800
> > 
> > I just installed the Windows versions of emacs and when I edit text files on 
> > my Windows they are saved with unix-stype linefeeds. When I open these files, 
> > I see Unix at the left hand side of the buffer too.
> > 
> > I searched for some time and found several articles on this but nothing that 
> > could help me. How can I fix this problem? Also, why the default installation 
> > for Windows is like this?
>
> Are these new files you create with Emacs, or are these existing
> files you edit?
>
> If the latter, Emacs preserves their original end-of-line format; if
> they originally had Unix-style linefeeds, Emacs will save the edited
> file with the same end-of-line format.
>
> If these are new files created by Emacs, it's probably something in
> your customization, as by default Emacs on Windows creates files with
> Windows-style CR-LF pairs at the end of each line.  Try invoking Emacs
> with "emacs -q" and see if that helps; if it does, look inside your
> .emacs (or _emacs) init file for some customization that causes this.
> Things to watch for are setting of the defaults for files'
> coding-system and use of untranslated-filesystem feature.
>
> --- End Message ---
> --- Begin Message ---
>
>
>
> Subject: 
>
> Windows text files saved as Unix files
>
>
>
>
> Date: 
>
> Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:57:10 -0800 
>
>
>
>
> I just installed the Windows versions of emacs and when I edit text files on my 
> Windows they are saved with unix-stype linefeeds. When I open these files, I 
> see Unix at the left hand side of the buffer too.
>
> I searched for some time and found several articles on this but nothing that 
> could help me. How can I fix this problem? Also, why the default installation 
> for Windows is like this?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -Jalil
> ps. Please reply to my email address as I am not part of the mailing list yet.
>
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