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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs?
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 10:06:02 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <631580e6-610a-4df1-b0a5-fe59fde6ac7b@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201005090644.GE4453@protected.rcdrun.com>

> > > Use `query-replace' (`M-%') or `M-x replace-string'
> >
> > But this assumes the buffer is editable ... besides
> > there should be a command (onee) that toggles the
> > visibility of that specific kind of representation,
> > whatever it is called, for _all_ such chars...
> 
> It is in read-only buffers, 

If you want to edit a read-only buffer, toggle it
to writable with `C-x C-q'.

If it's a file buffer and you don't have write
permission for the file, then you likely won't be
able to write the updated buffer back to the file.
But that's a different problem from being able to
edit the buffer.

> I was just thinking there is option to
> remove that as it looks as garbiage.

Garbage/noise is in the eye of the beholder.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-04 14:52 Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs? Jean Louis
2020-10-04 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-04 18:41   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-05  9:06     ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05  9:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05  9:47       ` Joost Kremers
2020-10-05 12:54         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-05 17:06       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-10-05 18:14         ` Jean Louis
2020-10-05 18:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 18:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-05 18:59             ` Yuri Khan
2020-10-05 19:13             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-10  0:23             ` Jean Louis
2020-10-10  7:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 19:41 ` Patrick Mahan
2020-10-04 19:49   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-04 20:32     ` Patrick Mahan
2020-10-04 22:56       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-04 23:26         ` 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-10-04 23:43           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-05  3:57         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-05  7:29         ` tomas
2020-10-05 18:44         ` Nick Dokos
2020-10-05 19:16 ` Nick Dokos

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