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Re: Changing file end-of-line style
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Changing file end-of-line style |
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Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:41:52 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 14:24:10 +0100
> From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
> Cc: Emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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> This works great! I have a question though. I was aware of the
> set-buffer-file-coding-system command; when I tried it I was prompted
> with utf-8[1] which did not seem to do anything. What confuses me is
> this prompt along with separate markers on the modeline for charset and
> line ending style[2] led me to believe the coding system of the file is
> the charset (as in the characters used in the text) it is using, whereas
> line endings are set by something else.
No, the coding-system includes both the character encoding and the EOL
encoding. See the node "Coding Systems" in the Emacs User Manual.
> >From your answer it seems that is not the case. Does that mean there
> can be several coding system associated to a buffer?
No, there's only one, but it specifies both character and EOL
conversions.