Re: text files use dos coding by default

[David Ellis]

That's what I thought. I tried this test. I renamed my .emacs file so that I
have no startup file.

If I send a dir listing to a file (dir > test.txt)and open it with emacs,
emacs thinks it is unix.

If I just open emacs and start typing in the scratch buffer, it thinks that
it is dos. But if I save it, exit emacs, and open the file, it thinks it is
unix.

Dave
<jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com> wrote in message
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> "David Ellis" <ddellis@mail.com> writes:
>
> > I am using emacs on Windows XP. It seems that text files use unix coding
by
> > default even though the files have carriage return-linefeeds at the ends
of
> > the lines. Is there a way that I can set this up to use dos by default?
>
> The default on Windows is to create files with DOS line ends, and to
> autodetect line ends when reading existing files. So either you have
> something in your init files to make Unix the default, or the files
> you are opening have inconsistent line-ends, so Emacs defaults to Unix
> to avoid corrupting binary files.
>