replacing ^M with emacs

[Noah]

well I am pressing control-J for return not control-M so I dont 
understand your rationale.


Jerry McAllister wrote:
>> Thanks Peter,
>>
>> where is the logic here?  What is control-q for and what is control-j 
>> for?  I am trying to figure out how I could have figured that out.
>>     
>
> They are ASCII characters.   For example, the ^M you wanted to get
> rid of is CTRL-M.    There are ASCII tables in various places.
> A quick search should turn up a few.   The assignment of the 
> characters are ancient and traditional and somewhat weird by
> how things are currently used, but will probably continue to stay
> that way.
>
> Line-Feed, for example - which is that character that marks the end
> of a line in text files, means it causes the printer to move the 
> paper up one line - in old line printers and teletypes.  CTRL-M or ^M
> is a RETURN (also ENTER nowdays) and that caused the print head to
> return to the beginning of the line.  By the time UNIX came along,
> it wasn't necessary to use both characters to move the paper and print
> head because those were virtual.  So, they just used one character - 
> the line feed.   But, MS-DOS and some others continued to use the
> pair to mean a new line for some reason - maybe the original association
> with IBM, although they didn't use ASCII, but EBCDIC - another animal.
>
> So, look up an ASCII chart with explanations and you can make an
> educated guess on the meanings.
>
> ////jerry
>
>   
>> also is there a better page than the one I am using below to figure all 
>> these keystrokes out?
>>
>> http://www.math.uh.edu/~bgb/emacs_keys.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Noah
>>
>>
>> Peter A. Giessel wrote:
>>     
>>> On 2006/10/27 15:20, Noah seems to have typed:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> this is the best answer.  Hits it right on the head of what I want.  
>>>> What if I want the character to replace the ^M with a new line what do I 
>>>> enter in the replace field?
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> control-q control-j
>>>  
>>>       
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