From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs? Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:02:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83ft6m5zrz.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <20201010002302.GF12803@protected.rcdrun.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25373"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 09:03:27 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 1kR8uc-0006VH-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:03:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37148 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR8ub-0002oS-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:03:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR8u9-0002mu-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33661) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kR8u9-0001EG-7F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:02:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2805 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kR8u8-0003Nb-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:02:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201010002302.GF12803@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:23:02 +0300) 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:124407 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:23:02 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > * Eli Zaretskii [2020-10-05 21:23]: > > > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 21:14:25 +0300 > > > From: Jean Louis > > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > > > 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. > > Do you mean the variable default-process-coding-system ? I'm not sure, because you didn't tell enough details regarding how this text was received from the shell. In the simplest case, using "C-x RET c" prefix before invoking the shell command could be a better solution; no need to change the defaults.