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(emacs)Forcing Enriched Mode

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Forcing Enriched Mode
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   Normally, Emacs knows when you are editing formatted text because it
recognizes the special annotations used in the file that you visited.
However, there are situations in which you must take special actions to
convert file contents or turn on Enriched mode:

   * When you visit a file that was created with some other editor,
     Emacs may not recognize the file as being in the text/enriched
     format.  In this case, when you visit the file you will see the
     formatting commands rather than the formatted text.  Type `M-x
     format-decode-buffer' to translate it.

   * When you _insert_ a file into a buffer, rather than visiting it.
     Emacs does the necessary conversions on the text which you insert,
     but it does not enable Enriched mode.  If you wish to do that,
     type `M-x enriched-mode'.

   The command `format-decode-buffer' translates text in various
formats into Emacs's internal format.  It asks you to specify the format
to translate from; however, normally you can type just <RET>, which
tells Emacs to guess the format.

   If you wish to look at text/enriched file in its raw form, as a
sequence of characters rather than as formatted text, use the `M-x
find-file-literally' command.  This visits a file, like `find-file',
but does not do format conversion.  It also inhibits character code
conversion (Note: Coding Systems) and automatic uncompression (Note:
Compressed Files).  To disable format conversion but allow character
code conversion and/or automatic uncompression if appropriate, use
`format-find-file' with suitable arguments.