Using Everything search with Emacs/Anything under Windows

Question

So I've started to use Anything with Emacs. You can use 'locate' with anything, but you can also use VoidTools' 'Everything' (which is actually the default for 'Windows-NT' systems.

It took a little bit of prodding, but I have command line Everything working on my system. I get results back from it while using anything-locate or anything-for-files.

Everything works fine except I get the dreaded ^M (control-M) at the end of the lines that es returns to me. That means when I use anything to open the file, it doesn't work.

Anyone have any help on how to fix values that es returns, or alternately, strip off the ^M before trying to open the file?

Answer 1

Ah-ha, in the end, it was my fault.

Be careful when messing around with the process-coding-system-alist, and make sure that it's something that really needs to be done. I modified this in the past thus:

(setq process-coding-system-alist (cons '("bash" . (raw-text-unix . raw-text-dos)) 
                                 process-coding-system-alist)) 

And I don't need to do that anymore. It meant that the files being passed up from Everything were being interpreted Unix style, and the CR/^M were showing up. By commenting out this line, I solved my own problem.