Hiding ^M in emacs

Question

Sometimes I need to read log files that have ^M (control-M) in the line endings. I can do a global replace to get rid of them, but then something more is logged to the log

Answer 1

Edric's answer should get more attention. Johan Bockgård's solution does address the poster's complaint, insofar as it makes the ^M's invisible, but that just masks the underlying problem, and encourages further mixing of Unix and DOS line-endings.

The proper solution would be to do a global M-x replace-regexp to turn all line endings to DOS ones (or Unix, as the case may be). Then close and reopen the file (not sure if M-x revert-buffer would be enough) and the ^M's will either all be invisible, or all be gone.