[Sheflug] Apologies for long line length and a newline problem

[Lesley Anne Binks <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone

Was just looking through the archives for something and 
noticed that I am using very long line lengths on recent 
postings.

Until I get my system up and running properly again, I am
using a webmail interface and the text box doesn't 
automatically add newlines.  So I am now trying to remember
to put them in!

While on the topic of newlines; I downloaded some zip files,
unzipped them on the laptop (Suse 8.3) and loaded the text
files into emacs.

Now in Windows 0x0D 0x0A is the carriage return line feed
and on Linux boxes I've always understood it's 0x0D only.
Emacs showed the  newlines not as newlines but as ^M 
which translates to 0x0D.  Obviously this caused problems on 
a search and replace.

Anyone else come up against this kind of problem ? What's 
the fix, bar going through the extracted text files and 
making the relevant replacements by hand?

Regards

Lesley
(keeping fingers crossed there are no very long lines here)     






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