Re: How to join most buffer in one buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 02:06:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: twiki <lap7619@yahoo.it>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:06:42 +0000
> 
> > 
> > This is not needed.  You should be able to just "C-x i" each file into 
> > the same buffer, then "C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-s" to SUM.txt to save
> > them all.
> > 
> 
> Ok... but i've 200+ files and this method is time-expensive!

Where does the list of file names come from?  You cannot automate
this unless the file names can be known to Emacs in some way.

> Also if I open a.txt (iso-latin1-dos) and save with:
> 
>   C-x RET c utf-8 C-x C-s
> 
> when Emacs (re-opened a.txt) shows again iso-latin1-dos with:
> 
>   C-h C RET
> 
> Suggestions?

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