From: Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de>
Subject: Re: refer to "\n" in replace-regexp
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:46:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765hit66p.fsf@bird.agharta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: crtptfqccog.fsf@pinatubo.cis.uni-muenchen.de
On 18 Nov 2003 09:18:23 +0100, Joerg Schuster <js@cis.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> I often need to replace characters with the "\n" character. How can
> this be done with replace-regexp?
I suppose you mean the newline character. You can do that with C-q C-j.
> Is there a list of Emacs regexpressions somewhere in the net? (It
> took me some time to find out (by trial and error) that "\t" has to
> be referred to by pressing the TAB key.)
That's actually not part of the regex syntax - tab and newline are
"just" ordinary characters. Try C-h k C-q to see what C-q is for.
Edi.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-18 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-18 8:18 refer to "\n" in replace-regexp Joerg Schuster
2003-11-18 8:46 ` Edi Weitz [this message]
2003-11-18 10:16 ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-18 10:52 ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-19 9:24 ` Joerg Schuster
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