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From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: VI - removing control characters
Keywords: vi, control characters
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Date: 21 Sep 89 14:22:17 GMT
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cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

>In article <1600@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>, tim@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Tim Nelson) writes:
>>[has ^M at the end of every line in a file]

>You can use the following sequence:	:1,$ s/<CTRL-V><CTRL-M>//g

Hmmm, I think a better way is:

:g/^V^M$/s///

(Real control-v and control-m, of course)

Remember, the original problem is that they're at the end of lines.

Typically, this problem is encountered when using 'script'

aem
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