Emacs tip of the day: force Unix/DOS line-break mode
Another wild and wooly Emacs tip for your enjoyment! Have you ever opened a text file in Emacs, only to find it incorrectly detected the line-break format? You might have been forced to use dos2unix, which may have confused your version control system. Well there is a somewhat obscure command to force line-break mode:
set-buffer-file-coding-system undecided-dos
Arcane eh? The default keybinding is even more so:
C-x RET f undecided-unix
As you probably gathered, it takes an argument of ‘undecided-dos’ or ‘undecided-unix’. Who knew??
