Re: How to replace a character by an unprintable character ?

["Jérôme Radix" <jradix@bigfoot.com>]

Thanks Drew for your answer.

I've tried that too :
C-q C-m writes ^M in the replacement string, and when doing the 
replacement, I have the following
a^Mb^Mc^Md

It seems it comes from the different line separation conventions (unix 
dos, mac...)

I can't figure out how to get

a
b
c
d

without closing/reopening the file to force emacs to guess in which line 
separation convention to run (I don't know of a way to change it with a 
single command...)

I keep searching...

Drew Adams a écrit :
>     
>     Using M-% or C-M-% how do you replace each `;' in
>     a;b;c;d by a carriage return (<RET>)
>     I've tried several things out in the replacement string without
>     success :
>     
>     C-q <RET>
> 
>    
> `C-q C-m'    (C-m is RETURN.)
> 
>