Tramp file encoding for Unix

Question

I have managed to setup Tramp to connect to a remote Solaris machine from a Windows machine using plink, which is very nice.

 (setq tramp-default-user "Beginner"
       tramp-default-host "the_host"
       tramp-default-method "plink")

But now I have a host of new problems, which I would assume to be related to the file encoding from the tramp upload:

For example I have edited the .profile and now I get strange error messages like

$>. .profile
bash: $'\r': command not found

How can I configure tramp to format files in a Solaris-friendly way?

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Edit: Having unix-encoding the default solves the issue for me

 (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)

Answer 1

Usually, Tramp shall respect encoding of existing files. For new files, you could set the encoding via C-x RET f utf-8-unix RET. You can choose also another coding system, the important point is to append the -unixsuffix. Read also the Emacs manual about coding systems.