Re: Coding system question

Philip Aston wrote: > Is it possible to set buffer-file-coding-system-for-read to a coding > system such that: > > 1. Loading a file, modifying it, and saving it does not change its EOL > type. > > 2. Line breaks are auto-detected (and displayed without control > charatcers etc). > > ? > > > I find that 'no-coding satisfies 1 but I have to live with ^M's, and > that every other coding system I try uses a particular, fixed, eol > type for write. I expected 'undecided to be the answer, but this > strips CR's from CRLF encoded files on write. As the name implies, buffer-file-coding-system-for-read only applies to reading the file. buffer-file-coding-system determines the EOL convention used when writing the file.