typescript and ^M (In vi)

[Jeff Beadles]

In <42995 at eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou at acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes:
>Maybe this question was asked before ...

It has.  Maybe it's time to add to a faq...

>Anyway I wonder if there is any filter I can use to get rid of ^M
>(RETURN) in the typescript file. One way I can do it is to replace all
>^M with null in emacs or vi. Is there any better way of doing this? In
>other words, is it possible to create a typescript without CR chars?

No, typescript files will have ^M, as it's in the data stream...

Anyway, to remove them within vi, type:

	<ESCAPE>:%s/^V^M$//

(escape colon percent s slash control-v control-m dollar slash slash)

	-Jeff
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