From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: roodwriter@ureach.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ^M characters Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:49:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87ljwfvdxg.fsf@dell-desktop.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224768887 4113 80.91.229.10 (23 Oct 2008 13:34:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:34:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 16:11:13 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kt0tM-0005ZB-CP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt0Hu-00035i-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:31:42 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe03.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GB7Tg0V5a/DV4Dj3sIYMgHQoZc8= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: addndpeeanndebnboopongelpiliadeb Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@charter.net Original-X-Trace: ejcgghfdebcllckhfkhgnhldfhiklkalbhghnplninbmlibaaddndpeeanndebnbohhbdpcjbejihndbgkgepeeicmhodgkikojaiheihmglaacjeeefojdhbngdjnmpbgjklipccefckbgb Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:49:50 UTC Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163720 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:42:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59068 Archived-At: Corey Foote writes: > I copied some text into an email buffer, but each line ends with a funny > colored character that looks like ^M. What are these characters? How can I > remove them without having to manually delete each one? And how can I > insert one myself? > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. Try it I'm lazy. I just copy the ^M and then uses M-x replace-regexp. I paste (yank) the ^M into the command, hit twice and let it rip. All gone faster than you can read this. Once upon a time I made a macro that did this, but I rarely get Microsoft files anymore. (I use Linux.) They may have started out as Microsoft, but e-mail programs seem to convert them better now. Rod