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You don’t need to post my response. I think you meant “:set list” and “:set nolist” instead of “set: list”. I got an error when I typed “set: list” and “:set: list”. Thought yuo might want to know so you can fix your post and save others the headache of figuring it out.

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Once you find the characters you want to remove you can use:
:%s///g to remove everything globally. The way to type those pesky special characters in vi (ie ^M) is to use ctrl-v then ctrl-m You then substitute the m for whatever letter you need.

Hope that helps!

Sorry the posting left out some of my characters. A sample of the above technique would be :%s/^M//g

Sorry for the mixup!