[ale] FAQ alert: Losing ^M

[John Mills]

Joe -

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> You know, the really sad thing is that I couldn't figure
> out how to do it in Emacs... "ESC-x replace-string ^Q^M Return Return"
> wouldn't do it ("Replaced 0 occurrences", even though I
> could look at the file in hexl-mode and see the 0x0D
> characters).

"The mouse is your friend." select the offending blot at the end of a
line, delete it ('^w') go to the top of the file (<Home>), do
<ESC>%^y<RTN><RTN>, and at the first match, '!' to hit 'em all (worked for
me ...). Still, 'fromdos' or 'dos2unix' have a lot going for them.

 - John Mills


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