begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:34:07AM -0800:
[snip - using script for interactive session recording]
> Note that script(1) saves a lot of things that you might not really
> want to see, like all the fancy cursor-movement stuff that goes into
> making up your Bash prompt, and of course the carriage-return
> characters at the end of the line, and any backspaces that might have
> been put in during command-line editing.  But a quick pass with the
> editor of your choice will clean this up.

Setting your prompt to something dead simple helps the cleanup 
process tremendously.  Using ! and ^ instead of arrowing around
helps as well.  And if you have to correct too many typos... ^U
and starting over really can save a lot of effort.

> One of these days, if I use script more often, I will get around to
> writing a sed script to clean up the output.

:%s/^V^M//g in vi(m) does the line-endings just fine, but the
line-editing stuff seemed more complicated than what I could see
fitting in a sed script.   But then, I only do simple things in
sed scripts...  and afraid I'm going to do poorly what's already
been done in a CPAN module. :-)

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