Re: Any way to remove ^L or ^M from some buffer outputs?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Those are shell output buffers and similar, and it looks ugly, I was
>> thinking there is some option to set, to avoid that. Of course I will
>> not edit it with hand, it is about watching output nicely formatted.
>
> If this text comes from the shell, you can make Emacs eliminate the ^M
> characters by setting the read part of process-coding-system to *-dos.

I think in the OP's case what the users really want is not that but to
treat it like a terminal would (i.e. erasing to BOL).


        Stefan