Re: How to get rid of ^M at end of line

[bar tomas]

Many thanks!


On 10/10/09, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:14:52 +0200
>  > From: bar tomas <bartomas@gmail.com>
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> >
>  > I'm working on windows xp, and I get ^M characters at the end of each
>  > line- In fact, every time I open the document I get an additional ^M
>  > at the end of each line. I've tried to use Replace '^M', but it
>  > doesn't work (replaces nothing)
>  > I've noticed that Ctrl end-of-line is set to Unix when I start Emacs,
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> Does this (the "Unix" EOL mode-line indicator and the ^M characters)
>  happen to you in "emacs -Q"?  (They shouldn't.)  If in "emacs -Q" the
>  problem goes away, something in your .emacs init file causes this.
>
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>  > What should I write in my emacs init file to set Ctrl end-of-line
>  > permanently to DOS (if this is the problem)?
>
>
> It's rather what you should NOT write in the init file, I think.
>  Emacs by default preserves the EOL format of existing files, so it
>  should set EOL to -dos when it visits a file automatically.
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