[VM] emacs-w3m on Emacs 24

[Uday S Reddy]

I have this problem with Emacs 24.

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.

I am trying to see if anybody else is observing this problem? If so, please
let me know if it occurring on Unix systems as well as Windows.

Cheers,
Uday

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Uday S Reddy
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