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How to set the default line terminator for new files in emacs?

Is there a something I can put in my .emacs config file to set the default line-ending style for newly created files?

I'm using GNU emacs for windows, but would like newly created files to use unix-style (line-feed only) line endings by default.

Solution

  • I have the following in my Windows section of my config:

    (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
(setq eol-mnemonic-dos "(DOS)")
(setq eol-mnemonic-unix "\\")