From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs? Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:49:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87pn5xrctr.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21337"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yAfodN2062bIDBE+VIHr4o3JogE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 21:50:55 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 1kPA23-0005SW-9u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36244 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPA20-00005s-HH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:50:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59364) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kPA0w-0008Vc-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:49:46 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36888 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 1kPA0u-00035r-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 15:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kPA0r-0003w7-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:49:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never 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 = 2020/10/04 13:08:03 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=0.248, 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:124302 Archived-At: Patrick Mahan wrote: > (defun cut-ctrlM () > "Cut all visible ^M." > (interactive) > (beginning-of-buffer) > (while (search-forward "\r" nil t) > (replace-match "" nil t)) > (not-modified) > (beginning-of-buffer)) Well, yeah, if we want to replace (not hide), only, as always, the byte compiler is your friend! In cut-ctrlM: [...]Warning: ‘beginning-of-buffer’ is for interactive use only; use ‘(goto-char (point-min))’ instead. [...]Warning: ‘not-modified’ is for interactive use only; use ‘set-buffer-modified-p’ instead. [...]Warning: ‘beginning-of-buffer’ is for interactive use only; use ‘(goto-char (point-min))’ instead. And... maybe wrap it in `save-excursion' as well? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal