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Date:Mon Jun 2 18:05:51 1995 
Subject:getting rid of Fancy VED characters in Emacs 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:950603.04 

My colleague, Riccardo Poli, who now regularly uses Pop-11, but
has not been willing to give up Emacs in favour of VED, offers
the following solution to the problem of reading the online
documentation with fancy characters, in Emacs.

He writes
=======================================================================
 If you want to remove all the funny characters (_,^H,^R,^S,^Q) from the
 new  poplog help/ref/teach  files,   just add the  following piece  of
 Emacs-lisp  to your   .emacs   file and run M-x    pop-clean-help when
 appropriate.

(defun pop-clean-help ()
  (interactive)
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (vc-toggle-read-only)
  (replace-regexp "_+\\|[]" "")
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (vc-toggle-read-only))
=======================================================================

I presume someone could add this to the relevant bit of the $popcontrib
directory?

It's a pity there are not agreed standards for fancy characters.

Aaron