Dos2Unix conversion

[vlion]

Hello my fellow Emacs users!

This snippet should give you the abiility to remove those ^M characters you get from time to time if you do much emacs work relating to Windows systems. If the first argument in search-forward doesn't copy over right, it can be inserted with C-q C-m.

Have fun!

(defun remove-dos-line-endings () 
"Removes those pesky ^M from a buffer"
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion 
    (goto-char 0) 
    (while (search-forward " " nil t) 
             (replace-match "" nil t))))

Comments

[vatine]

May be worth sticking a (save-match-data ...) around the body, as well as a (save-excursion ...).

[vlion]

Already have save-excursion! Thanks for the save-match-data tip!

[jld]

"\C-m" might be a nicer way to get that string into the script.

[vatine]

Ah, yes, s/a/the/ (that was what I intended to write, since I saw the save-excursion and thought "aha, I needed to do some match-and-replace yesterday and I used save-match-data".

I was turning spreadsheet columns of "OK" or not into binary numbers, long story, quite boring.