Re: [h-e-w] Force Windows line endings

[Stephen Leake]

"Ryan Bowman" <address@hidden> writes:

> I run Emacs (21.3.50.1) on Windows XP.  When I open a file emacs
> detects if the file contains unix or windows line endings and uses the
> appropriate.  

Ok.

> When I create a new file it uses Unix line endings. 

You must have:

(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'unix)

or something equivalent in your .emacs.

Try it with "emacs -q" to verify.


> I would like emacs to always use dos line endings (because everyone
> else I work with uses Eclipse on Windows). I now know I can use C-x
> RET c dos RET C-x C-f to open a file in dos mode, but that's fairly
> lengthy to perform everytime I need to open a new file. I wanted to
> write a simple function that called
> (universal-coding-system-argument "dos") then called (find-file) but
> universal-coding-system-argument seems geared toward interactive
> calls. What is a good way to collect the above commands into one?

If you only want _new_ files to use DOS line endings, use

(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'dos)

If you want to automatically convert existing files to DOS line
endings, that's a different story.

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