In emacs, how to strip CR (^M) and leave LF (^J) characters?

Question

I am trying to use hexl mode to manually remove some special chars from a text file and don\'t see how to delete anything in hexl mode.

What I really want is to remove c

Answer 1

You don't need to use hexl-mode. Instead:

• open file in a way that shows you those ^M's. See M-x find-file-literally /path/to/file above. In XEmacs you can also do C-u C-x C-f and select binary encoding.
• select the string you want replace and copy it using M-w
• do M-% (query replace) and paste what you want to copy using C-y
• present Enter when prompted to what replace it with
• possible press ! now to replace all occurrences

The point is that even if you don't how to enter what you are trying to replace, you can always select/copy it.