[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: I do not want to select a coding system
From: |
Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: I do not want to select a coding system |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:59:26 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
> Bruce Korb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Every now and then, it becomes completely impossible to save the
>> contents of a new file I am creating. Emacs demands I select a
>> coding system and none of them are plain old vanilla ASCII text..
>> It seems really nice and clever and egalitarian to allow for so many
>> coding systems. It is really wonderful. But compilers want ASCII and
>> I cannot get plain ascii. In the end, I go into a shell and type:
>>
>> cat > myfile.c <<\_EOF_
>> <<paste-a-gazillion-lines>>
>> _EOF_
>>
>> and revisit "myfile.c". Works like a charm, but is an incredible hassle.
>>
>> I only want ASCII. I've waded through the bazillion lines of configurable
>> stuff, too, and there is no obvious to me selection to say, "I always,
>> always, always edit ASCII text". What is the magic? Thanks.
>>
>> Regards, Bruce
>>
>>
>
>
> us-ascii and iso-safe are coding systems. Maybe putting
>
> ;; -*- coding: iso-safe -*-
>
> at the top of your files would work.
The OP wants ASCII, so:
;; -*- coding:us-ascii -*-
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__