From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs? Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:56:05 +0200 Message-ID: <878scl8ut6.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <87pn5xrctr.fsf@ebih.ebihd> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16655"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ng7/NHx3gKyDBjeu8KnFaYshRhM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 00:56:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPCvt-0004Dz-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:56:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56776 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPCvs-00066H-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPCvQ-00065x-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36124 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPCvP-0005jS-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 18:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPCvL-0003Zt-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:56:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/04 18:56:11 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124304 Archived-At: Patrick Mahan wrote: > Yes, I have never byte-compiled it as I have only > used it interactively to clean-up text files coming > from a DOS world to linux/unix/macos. It is defined > in my .emacs init file. Well, you can byte-compile your .emacs as well. It is just another Elisp file... Anyway, here (last) is a refined version, if you don't mind... I wonder tho... why does (insert-char 13) insert ^M but M-x insert-char 13 RET inserts ^S? (defun delete-c-m (&optional beg end) (interactive (if (use-region-p) (list (region-beginning) (region-end)) (list (point-min) (point-max)) )) (save-excursion (goto-char beg) (while (search-forward "\r" end t) (replace-match "" nil t) ) (set-buffer-modified-p nil) ; can be user or omitted... )) ;; (insert-char 13) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal