Silent, automatic conversion of line endings (Was: Sharing...)

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Kurt Swanson <ksw@dna.lth.se>:

>> What about the file types, though?  Maybe you have M$-ish CRLF
>> end-of-lines where Linux expects LF?

> Doesn't emacs take care of this silently and automatically?

*Too* silently!  I messed up when doing a CVS import over an old
version from UNIX, but with the new version packaged on Win32.

I couldn't understand what was wrong, because the files looked fine in 
Emacs, which has always told me that the file was a DOS file by
displaying the ^M characters or by putting a small "dos-mode" on the
status line.

What was more confusing than anything, was that the little bugger
(20.2 MBSK) *showed* the ^M characters in buffers that had both
UNIX and DOS line endings on different lines.

Arrrgh!