# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 961685482 0 # Node ID d49e929bbdf6a4b70d1c99db483fd0e7ad219d6f # Parent 512a7726f5b0a29e6ff1ae1083aa0f5c975988a7 (Text and Binary): Separate description of EOL conversions from the issues related to binary files. diff -r 512a7726f5b0 -r d49e929bbdf6 man/msdog.texi --- a/man/msdog.texi Thu Jun 22 12:52:06 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/msdog.texi Thu Jun 22 14:51:22 2000 +0000 @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ default. This default shape can be changed to a bar by specifying the @code{cursor-type} parameter in the variable @code{default-frame-alist} (@pxref{Creating Frames}). The MS-DOS terminal doesn't support a -vertical-bar cursor, so the bar cursor is horizontal, and the its +vertical-bar cursor, so the bar cursor is horizontal, and the @code{@var{width}} parameter, if specified by the frame parameters, actually determines its height. As an extension, the bar cursor specification can include the starting scan line of the cursor as well @@ -290,48 +290,41 @@ handles conversion of international character codes does this conversion also (@pxref{Coding Systems}). -@cindex cursor location, under MS-DOS -@cindex point location, under MS-DOS +@cindex cursor location, on MS-DOS +@cindex point location, on MS-DOS One consequence of this special format-conversion of most files is that character positions as reported by Emacs (@pxref{Position Info}) do not agree with the file size information known to the operating system. -@vindex file-name-buffer-file-type-alist - Some kinds of files should not be converted, because their contents -are not really text. Therefore, Emacs on MS-DOS distinguishes certain -files as @dfn{binary files}, and reads and writes them verbatim. (This -distinction is not part of MS-DOS; it is made by Emacs only.) These -include executable programs, compressed archives, etc. Emacs uses the -file name to decide whether to treat a file as binary: the variable -@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} defines the file-name patterns -that indicate binary files. Note that if a file name matches one of the -patterns for binary files in @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}, -Emacs uses the @code{no-conversion} coding system (@pxref{Coding -Systems}) which turns off @emph{all} coding-system conversions, not only -the EOL conversion. - In addition, if Emacs recognizes from a file's contents that it uses newline rather than carriage-return linefeed as its line separator, it -does not perform conversion when reading or writing that file. Thus, +does not perform EOL conversion when reading or writing that file. Thus, you can read and edit files from Unix or GNU systems on MS-DOS with no special effort, and they will be left with their Unix-style EOLs. -@findex find-file-text -@findex find-file-binary - You can visit a file and specify whether to treat a file as text or -binary using the commands @code{find-file-text} and -@code{find-file-binary}. End-of-line conversion is part of the general -coding system conversion mechanism, so another way to control whether to -treat a file as text or binary is with the commands for specifying a -coding system (@pxref{Specify Coding}). For example, -@kbd{C-x @key{RET} c undecided-unix @key{RET} C-x C-f foobar.txt} -visits the file @file{foobar.txt} without converting the EOLs. + The mode line indicates whether end-of-line translation was used for +the current buffer. If MS-DOS end-of-line translation is in use for the +buffer, a backslash @samp{\} is displayed after the coding system +mnemonic near the beginning of the mode line (@pxref{Mode Line}). If no +EOL translation was performed, the string @samp{(Unix)} is displayed +instead of the backslash, to alert you that the file's EOL format is not +the usual carriage-return linefeed. - The mode line indicates whether end-of-line translation was used for -the current buffer. Normally a colon appears after the coding system -letter near the beginning of the mode line. If MS-DOS end-of-line -translation is in use for the buffer, this character changes to a -backslash. +@cindex DOS-to-Unix conversion of files +@pindex dos2unix + End-of-line conversion is part of the general coding system conversion +mechanism, so the way to control whether to treat a text file as +DOS-style or Unix-style is with the commands for specifying a coding +system (@pxref{Specify Coding}). For example, @kbd{C-x @key{RET} c unix +@key{RET} C-x C-f foobar.txt} visits the file @file{foobar.txt} without +converting the EOLs; if that file has carriage-return linefeed pairs at +the end of its lines, Emacs will display @samp{^M} at the end of each +line. Similarly, you can force Emacs to save a buffer with specific EOL +format with the @kbd{C-x @key{RET} f} command. For example, to save a +buffer with Unix EOL format, type @kbd{C-x @key{RET} f unix @key{RET} +C-x C-s}. Thus, visiting a file with DOS EOL conversion, then saving it +with Unix EOL format effectively converts the file to Unix text style, +like the popular program @code{dos2unix} does. @cindex untranslated file system @findex add-untranslated-filesystem @@ -369,6 +362,50 @@ one argument, which should be a string just like the one that was used previously with @code{add-untranslated-filesystem}. + Designating a file system as untranslated does @strong{not} disable +code conversions as specified by the coding systems set up by your +language environment, it only affects the EOL conversions, by forcing +Emacs to create new files with Unix-style newline-only EOLs. + +@vindex file-name-buffer-file-type-alist +@cindex binary files, on MS-DOS/MS-Windows + Some kinds of files should not be converted at all, because their +contents are not really text. Therefore, Emacs on MS-DOS distinguishes +certain files as @dfn{binary files}. (This distinction is not part of +MS-DOS; it is made by Emacs only.) Binary files include executable +programs, compressed archives, etc. Emacs uses the file name to decide +whether to treat a file as binary: the variable +@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} defines the file-name patterns +that indicate binary files. If a file name matches one of the patterns +for binary files (those whose associations are of the type +@code{(@var{pattern} . t)}, Emacs reads and writes that file using the +@code{no-conversion} coding system (@pxref{Coding Systems}) which turns +off @emph{all} coding-system conversions, not only the EOL conversion. +@code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist} also includes file-name patterns +for files which are known to be DOS-style text files with +carriage-return linefeed EOL format, such as @file{CONFIG.SYS}; Emacs +always writes those files with DOS-style EOLs. + + If a file which belongs to an untranslated file system matches one of +the file-name patterns in @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}, the +EOL conversion is determined by @code{file-name-buffer-file-type-alist}. + +@findex find-file-text +@findex find-file-binary + You can visit a file and specify whether to treat it as text or binary +using the commands @code{find-file-text} and @code{find-file-binary}. +@code{find-file-text} specifies DOS EOL conversions, but leaves the +other coding conversions unspecified (Emacs determines the required +conversions via the usual defaults and coding-detection mechanisms). On +the other hand, @code{find-file-binary} turns off @emph{all} +coding-system conversions. + +@findex find-file-literally@r{, and binary files} + The @code{find-file-text} and @code{find-file-binary} commands are +only available when Emacs runs on MS-DOS or MS-Windows. The command +@code{find-file-literally}, which is available on all platforms, +produces the same effect as @code{find-file-binary}. + @node MS-DOS Printing @section Printing and MS-DOS