Re: Use EMACS and the ModeLine

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Actually -- I just started a large *.txt file.

It only had    -:%%-"       ...        "(Text)"
When I copy stuff from a www page and drop in EMACS -- I get problem.

I can also press-something when I am not paying attention.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 5:21 PM adr <adr%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2022, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > I load a *.txt file.
> >
> > I says 'U(DOS)' -- how/can I get rid of this?  It should only
> > be "-:%%-"       ...        "(Text)"
>
> Your file has dos newlines (^M^J) (it's from windows?), click in
> the DOS button until it says unix or use C-x RET f, and type unix.
> After saving it, the newline type will stay.
>
> > Does it matter?
>
> No, as long as your software knows how to take care of it. Emacs
> does. If you open it with nvi, you'll see ^M before newlines. If
> you are going to open that file in microsoft-whatever maybe is
> better to keep its format.
>
> adr.