Re: mac/dos/unix newline conversion without specify from

[Xah Lee]

Xah Lee wrote:
<<Open a unix file, do replace-string from LF to CR. Save the file.
Then start emacs with -q, open the file. It doesn't interprete the
file as a mac os classic file but instead display newline char as ^M.>>

David Kastrup wrote:
<<
It does switch to Mac endings here in this case.  Just tried it.
>>

mm... interesting. Here's a sample file for what's worth:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/x-unixmacdos-eol/x1mac

Xah wrote:
<<given the current situation, how to instruct emacs (as a user) to
open a file with CR as EOL?>>

David wrote:
<<
You can always do something like C-x RET c latin-1-mac RET C-x C-f
file RET
>>

Thanks.

  Xah
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