emacs change default line ending

emacs line-endings
Sambatyon picture Sambatyon · Mar 18, 2012 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

In Windows, Emacs is using cr-lf for a linebreak, but I like all my files to use Unix line endings (lf). I found a way to change it during my session, but I am not such an Emacs guru to translate the solution into an elisp command in my .emacs file.

Can anybody help me, so Emacs in Windows will use lf permanently?

Answer

tripleee picture tripleee · Mar 18, 2012

See also How to configure GNU Emacs to write UNIX or DOS formatted files by default?

(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

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