title: How to "apply" backspace characters within a text file (ideally in vim)
body: <p>I have a log file with backspace characters in it (^H). I'm looking through the file in Vim and it can be quite hard to see what's going on.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally I'd like to be able to "apply" all the ^H on a given line/range so that I can see the final result.</p>
  
  <p>I'd much rather do this within Vim on a line-by-line basis, but a solution which converts the whole file is better than nothing.</p>