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- From: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: atari emacs and ^M
- Keywords: emacs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.081907.17889@daimi.aau.dk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 08:19:07 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.164240.27194@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Sender: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech)
- Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Lines: 50
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- kinzel@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Jens Kinzel) writes:
-
- >Hi !
-
- >I just managed to pass the dungle installing emacs under MiNT (and
- >after a short period of happiness), I feel it's nasty that atari-emacs
- >can't handle '^M' EOL charakters by default. This editor isn't vewry
- >useful, when can't handle EOL's (or when it should be too difficult to
- >handle 'em). So I think there must be someone who wondered about this
- >problem like me, or has just solved it!
- > bye, Jens
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Jens Kinzel God is real
- >Institut fuer Betriebssysteme und Rechnerverbund unless he is integer
- >kinzel@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Actually there is.
-
- I guess that you have the MiNT version of emacs. There is another port, based
- on the most recent version (18.58) of emacs.
-
- Included in this is a little elisp-package which will automatically remove the
- ^M characters while visiting a normal atari file. They are of course reinserted
- before the file is saved.
-
- I can't remember the path on atari.archive right now, but try checking the
- gnustuff directory and/or the editor directory. This little package is worth
- the entire download.
-
- Don't forget that the appearance of the ^M characters is actually a feature.
- One of the advantages of emacs is the ability to handle arbitrary
- control-characters as ordinary characters that can be searched and replaced and
- whatever. Then if the characters is not desired, it is small trouble to hook up
- functions to delete/reinsert them when loading/saving the file.
-
-
-
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- - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)
-