From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: function to strip out escaped sequences? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:58:49 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1345151121 3961 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2012 21:05:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:05:21 +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 Aug 16 23:05:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T27Fl-0003zL-RU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:05:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T27Fk-0003xW-N4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:05:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p7360e2703ac85df3b46534ccaecb97528550c9bc51bdc2b6.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 X-Received-Bytes: 951 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194009 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86377 In an email sent under utf-8 encoding there are many escaped sequences like \200 (hex 80) that make the reading difficult. They don't have to be translated to a correct utf-8 sequence of bytes, only deleted. Is there a function to delete all escaped sequences in a buffer or selection in Emacs 23.3? Thanks, Ed