Re: elisp to change line endings for new remote file

[Kevin Rodgers]

yary wrote:
> Hoping someone can write a line or two of elisp for my .emacs file
> that will set the line endings to Unix for any new file opened via
> tramp. I'm using GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 on Windows, often creating Unix
> files via plink, and usually forgetting to change the line endings
> from DOS when I do. If you've already solved this in your setup,
> please share.

From the "Text and Binary" node of the Emacs manual:

   When you use NFS, Samba, or some other similar method to access file
systems that reside on computers using GNU or Unix systems, Emacs
should not perform end-of-line translation on any files in these file
systems--not even when you create a new file.  To request this,
designate these file systems as "untranslated" file systems by calling
the function `add-untranslated-filesystem'.  It takes one argument: the
file system name, including a drive letter and optionally a directory.
For example,

     (add-untranslated-filesystem "Z:")

designates drive Z as an untranslated file system, and

     (add-untranslated-filesystem "Z:\\foo")

designates directory `\foo' on drive Z as an untranslated file system.

   Most often you would use `add-untranslated-filesystem' in your
`.emacs' file, or in `site-start.el' so that all the users at your site
get the benefit of it.


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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA