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Re: variable buffer-file-coding-system does not exist
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: variable buffer-file-coding-system does not exist |
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Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 23:20:39 +0100 |
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Robin Hankin <r.hankin@auckland.ac.nz> writes:
|> PROBLEM: the documented solution fails:
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|> M-x describe-variable buffer-file-coding-system
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|> works fine *but*
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|> M-x set-variable buffer-file-coding-system
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|> reports that the variable does not exist (reporting "no match" in the
|> minibuffer). I can set this variable in the *help* buffer but that
|> doesn't help me.
This is because buffer-file-coding-system is neither a user option nor
custimizable (see user-variable-p), and set-variable is not intended to
handle such a variable.
To set buffer-file-coding-system interactively, use C-x RET f
(set-buffer-file-coding-system).
Andreas.
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