Re: How to change line endings - where is it explained?

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 00:45:52 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >
> > Is it explained in the manuals how to change line endings? I can not 
> > find it
> >     
>
> Yes, it is described in the node "Text and Binray".
>
> What did you try to look for it?  Perhaps we need to improve the
> indexing.
>   
Thanks, yes I wonder why I missed that. A couple of small things perhaps:

- The name of the node is a bit "C style".
- I looked for "line endings".
- I looked for "line end conversion".
- I actually also searched for CRLF, but possibly only in the elisp 
manual since I wanted to do the conversion in code.
- I was thinking about coding systems, but somehow I missed that you 
could use just 'unix or 'dos for the coding system in some operations.
- I looked at the node "(emacs) Files" which says it tells everything 
about files.
- I looked at `buffer-file-coding-system' etc.

I think that I have some difficulties with English here. I however also 
think that the essence of the topic is a bit absent in the manuals. It 
is very an important topic if you are on w32 but not that important if 
all you care about is unix-style platforms.

Some suggestions:

- A link to  "(emacs) Coding Systems"  in "(emacs) Files".
- Something about line endings too in "(emacs) Files", possibly in 
connection with the link above.
- "(emacs) Coding Systems" should mention 'dos, 'unix and 'mac.
- "(elisp) Files" should mention line endings.
- `describe-coding-system' could somehow mention line endings.