[wplug] vi question

[John Harrold]

Sometime in July Scott Eicher assaulted the keyboard and produced:

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| For you vi users I have a question:
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| I would like to delete all ^M control characters from an ascii file. Here is
| what I tried to accomplish this but it doesn't work:
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| :%s/\^M//g
| 

instead of the carrot+M combination try ctrl+q ctrl+m. this should stick a
little blue, or whatever color, ^M there. 

| It gives me this message:
| 
| Substitute pattern match failed
| 
| I'm thinking that I'm not specifying the ^M properly but I'm not sure how
| else to specify it.
| 
| Any help would be appreciated.
| 
| Thanks,
| Scott

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