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From: brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller)
Subject: Re: How can I disable the display of ^M characters?
Date: 24 Jun 2003 01:39:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c58a7c3.0306240039.cb4567c@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8548.1056433250.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> I often need to view log files which contain embedded control 
> characters, and these buffers always contain a great number of ^M 
> characters, which I find distracting.
> 
> Can I get emacs to suppress the display of these characters?

Yes, I don't know if this is the correct way, but it seems to work for
me:

(standard-display-ascii ?\015 "")

and to turn it on again:

(standard-display-ascii ?\015 "^M") ;; Or whatever characters 
                                    ;; you want to be seen

One time when I tried the first expression above and navigated to a
point ín the buffer where there were a ASCII 13 character, emacs
freezed, and I mean a major freeze. So test this a couple of times
before you try it in a critical situation with lot of unsaved buffers.

       reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.8548.1056433250.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-06-24  8:39 ` Barman Brakjoller [this message]
2003-06-24  9:28 ` How can I disable the display of ^M characters? Kai Großjohann
2003-06-24  5:40 Matt Noel

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