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In article <19148@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, halvers@altair.crd.ge.com (Pete
Halverson) writes:
> In article <1991May1.154743.25413@math.ufl.edu> wang@math.ufl.edu writes:
> >I have got a question for you emacs experts: I have some files which
> >contain bunch of non-printable characters, such as Control-L (served
> >as page breaker), Control-M (line breaker). How do I remove all of
> >them from the current buffer if I edit such a file in Emacs? 
> 
> Try
> 
>   "M-x replace-regexp RET [\000-\010\012-\037\177-\377] RET RET"
> 
> where each "\xxx" is a *single* *character* entered by typing "C-q x x x".
> Note that this character may actually be displayed as some random control
> character in the minibuffer.

I've found that query-replace-regexp offers a slightly more flexible
approach to this problem, but the principle is the same.