From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs? Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:13:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8f4b3911-489c-4b0f-9438-fc8c3339b5ae@default> <87mu11sujl.fsf@ebih.ebihd> <20201005090644.GE4453@protected.rcdrun.com> <631580e6-610a-4df1-b0a5-fe59fde6ac7b@default> <20201005181425.GJ10748@protected.rcdrun.com> <83zh50bkje.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19805"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:d1N7F9wdfqMzbLdQsP0HjwmFpSw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 21:14:22 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 1kPVwC-00053d-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:14:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49140 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPVwB-0004ZW-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:14:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPVvh-0004XW-Qs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:40540 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 1kPVvf-0002Fo-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPVvc-0004Mo-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:13:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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 = 2020/10/05 14:44:07 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=0.249, 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:124326 Archived-At: >> Those are shell output buffers and similar, and it looks ugly, I was >> thinking there is some option to set, to avoid that. Of course I will >> not edit it with hand, it is about watching output nicely formatted. > > If this text comes from the shell, you can make Emacs eliminate the ^M > characters by setting the read part of process-coding-system to *-dos. I think in the OP's case what the users really want is not that but to treat it like a terminal would (i.e. erasing to BOL). Stefan