replacing ^M with emacs

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Fri Oct 27 19:45:27 UTC 2006


Those ^M's are the MS-DOS EOL character.  You can use sed,  or tr to remove 
them via a commandline pipe.

         -Derek


At 02:26 PM 10/27/2006, Noah wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>It appears that a text editor placed a bunch on ^M throughout a text file 
>I am working with.  I assure this is equivalent to eh keystroke control-M.
>
>How might I get emacs to search replace
>
>also is there a mail list focused specifically on emacs usability?
>please refer me to it?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Noah
>
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