On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:26:25PM -0700, 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.
This is probably "MS-DOS" type text file. MS text file lines all end in a CR-LF character pair whereas UNIX text file lines have only a LF (line feed) and the end of each line. All text editors on MS systems do that and if you do a binary transfer of a file from MS to UNIX you will get all the extra ^M characters showing up. most versions of ftp have an ASCII mode that will do the conversion for you as you transfer the file back and forth between MS and UNIX. I think SCP only does binary transfers. I am not an Emacs user, but, You can easily use tr(1) to remove all the ^M characters from a file. tr -r "\r" <badfile >goodfile where badfile is the one with the ^M characters and goodfile is the newly cleaned copy. The only anoying thing is having to write to a second file and then get rid of the first or mv the new one back to the old (as in: mv goodfile badfile after doing the tr. ////jerry > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
