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Re: elisp - inserting block of text
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: elisp - inserting block of text |
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Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:13:52 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> What function(s) do I need to use in order to insert some text, please?
> I know about 'insert', but am wondering how I would go about inserting
> line breaks, for example, when the buffer might contain a file with *n*x
> or DOS line endings, or even a mix of the two.
Line endings in Emacs buffers are always "unix style" (i.e. a single LF
char). They get converted on the fly when saving the buffer to a file
(or when passing the buffer's content to a process), depending on the
coding-system used which specifies which kind of line-ending is desired.
Stefan