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
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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))
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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
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