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How to convert DOS/Windows newline characters to Unix format within GNU Emacs?

Is there a way to tell GNU Emacs to convert DOS/Windows newline characters in a file to Unix format?
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How to examine the new line characters in emacs?

I want to check if there is a "\r" at the end of a line of a plain text file (compressed as .gz file). I try the whitespace mode, and I don't find ^M shown. Is \r shown as ^M in whitespace mode? But my python program says something is wrong with…
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How to count the number of lines between two points? (ignoring word wrap)

Is there a convenient way to count the number of lines between two points? While I could search for \n in a loop and limit it to one of the points, this seems like an overly verbose way of doing it.
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Recursively insert a new line character in every line at a certain column

I was just going to ask how to accomplish this, but through a few DuckDuckGo searches, I was able to answer a lot of my question. I have a buffer of part numbers and part number descriptions each in a single line like this... 123456789 Description1 …
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Using terpri to insert newlines in buffer

I am using (insert "\n") to insert a newline in a specified buffer. Is this the recommended way to do it? I have seen (terpri) but cannot get it to make a newline. (defun fire-clock (bufrn) "TODO." (interactive) (let ( (ss (nth 0…
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Changing the definition of the paragraph

I would like to change the definition of the paragraph in such a way that every line to be considered as a paragraph. As I understand from the documentation, one should change the variables paragraph-start and paragraph-separate for this purpose. I…
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