Annoying ^M in text files

Annoying ^M in text files

[Boyan]

Hello,

could someone help me get rid off the end of line signs ^M that I see
when I open many text files? Is there an automatic configuration
line/command that could help me for a particular editing mode? I use
gnu-emacs 21.1.1 on linux. The same files seem to open right in xemacs
21.4 that I also have.

Regards,
Boyan.

Re: Annoying ^M in text files

[Miles Bader]

Dmitri.Minaev@Samara.BritishCouncil.RU writes:
> Those files use ms-dog-style CR-LF line breaks. ... or open those
> files with a *-dos coding system (if your emacs is compiled with MULE
> support).

GNU Emacs is always compiled with Mule support, and it's supposed to
auto-detect MSDOS-style line-endings.

Either the files are screwed up in some way (a common reason is
_mixed_ MSDOS- and unix-style line-endings), or he found a bug.

The best thing to do is to post a file that exhibits this problem (being
careful to preserve the line-endings in the post, e.g use a mime-attachment.

-Miles
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RE: Annoying ^M in text files

[Dmitri.Minaev]

Those files use ms-dog-style CR-LF line breaks. You can either use
'dos2unix' program to convert the line breaks to unix-style, or open those
files with a *-dos coding system (if your emacs is compiled with MULE
support).

--
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyan [mailto:bt@stw-bonn.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:57 PM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Annoying ^M in text files
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> could someone help me get rid off the end of line signs ^M that I see
> when I open many text files? Is there an automatic configuration
> line/command that could help me for a particular editing mode? I use
> gnu-emacs 21.1.1 on linux. The same files seem to open right in xemacs
> 21.4 that I also have.
> 
> Regards,
> Boyan.
> 
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Re: Annoying ^M in text files

[kgold]

The ^M is part of a DOS style end-of-line.  Probably, the file was
originally created on a DOS system.

Typically, emacs detects a DOS end-of-line and doesn't show the ^M.
Perhaps there is something in your .emacs which is turning off this
feature.

If you want to actually remove the ^M (not just hide them), I
recommend eol-conversion.el.

Boyan <bt@stw-bonn.de> writes:
> 
> could someone help me get rid off the end of line signs ^M that I see
> when I open many text files? Is there an automatic configuration
> line/command that could help me for a particular editing mode? I use
> gnu-emacs 21.1.1 on linux. The same files seem to open right in xemacs
> 21.4 that I also have.

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