How to get rid of ^M at end of line

How to get rid of ^M at end of line

[bar tomas]

Hi,
I'm working on windows xp, and I get ^M characters at the end of each
line- In fact, every time I open the document I get an additional ^M
at the end of each line. I've tried to use Replace '^M', but it
doesn't work (replaces nothing)
I've noticed that Ctrl end-of-line is set to Unix when I start Emacs,
is this to blame for the ^M? I toggle it each time back to DOS.
What should I write in my emacs init file to set Ctrl end-of-line
permanently to DOS (if this is the problem)?
Many thanks

Re: How to get rid of ^M at end of line

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.10.2009 um 19:14 schrieb bar tomas:

> I've noticed that Ctrl end-of-line is set to Unix when I start Emacs,
> is this to blame for the ^M?

Yes.

> I toggle it each time back to DOS.
> What should I write in my emacs init file to set Ctrl end-of-line
> permanently to DOS (if this is the problem)?


You could try

	(prefer-coding-system       'iso-latin-9-dos)

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Re: How to get rid of ^M at end of line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:14:52 +0200
> From: bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com>
> 
> I'm working on windows xp, and I get ^M characters at the end of each
> line- In fact, every time I open the document I get an additional ^M
> at the end of each line. I've tried to use Replace '^M', but it
> doesn't work (replaces nothing)
> I've noticed that Ctrl end-of-line is set to Unix when I start Emacs,

Does this (the "Unix" EOL mode-line indicator and the ^M characters)
happen to you in "emacs -Q"?  (They shouldn't.)  If in "emacs -Q" the
problem goes away, something in your .emacs init file causes this.

> What should I write in my emacs init file to set Ctrl end-of-line
> permanently to DOS (if this is the problem)?

It's rather what you should NOT write in the init file, I think.
Emacs by default preserves the EOL format of existing files, so it
should set EOL to -dos when it visits a file automatically.

Re: How to get rid of ^M at end of line

[bar tomas]

Many thanks!


On 10/10/09, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:14:52 +0200
>  > From: bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com>
>
> >
>  > I'm working on windows xp, and I get ^M characters at the end of each
>  > line- In fact, every time I open the document I get an additional ^M
>  > at the end of each line. I've tried to use Replace '^M', but it
>  > doesn't work (replaces nothing)
>  > I've noticed that Ctrl end-of-line is set to Unix when I start Emacs,
>
>
> Does this (the "Unix" EOL mode-line indicator and the ^M characters)
>  happen to you in "emacs -Q"?  (They shouldn't.)  If in "emacs -Q" the
>  problem goes away, something in your .emacs init file causes this.
>
>
>  > What should I write in my emacs init file to set Ctrl end-of-line
>  > permanently to DOS (if this is the problem)?
>
>
> It's rather what you should NOT write in the init file, I think.
>  Emacs by default preserves the EOL format of existing files, so it
>  should set EOL to -dos when it visits a file automatically.
>
>
>