Uday S Reddy writes: > If I run VM, along with emacs-w3m as the text/html viewer, then any file I > visit from then on seems to get loaded in "literally", i.e., non-ASCII > characters appear as octets and DOS line-endings appear as ^M's. The > variable `enable-multibyte-characters' is nil in all new buffers.
This problem apparently affects only MS-Windows users. Unix and Mac users can rest easy. Kazuhiro Ito on the emacs-developers list contributed a work-around to the problem. The work-around is to put these two lines in your .emacs file: (defvar buffer-file-type nil) (make-variable-buffer-local 'buffer-file-type) This variable will eventually disappear from Gnu Emacs. But, at the moment, Emacs24 seems to be somewhat schizophrenic about it. Cheers, Uday
