From: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Searching across line breaks
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:45:02 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r55m9ytr.fsf@mean.albasani.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4E251678.9050807@easy-emacs.de
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> Am 18.07.2011 20:58, schrieb Peter Dyballa:
>>> the newline-expression in the regexp must be typed \C-o inside the minibuffer, ie inserted literarly
>> Shouldn't it be C-j or C-q C-j? C-j is dec 10, oct 12, hex 0A, UTF U+000A LINE FEED (LF). (C-o is SHIFT IN.)
> Hm, de facto that works for me, I'm doing \C-o here. Which was hard to
> figure out at the beginning with Emacs BTW.
`C-h r' `C-s C-q C-j' `C-s':
,----[ (info "(emacs)Minibuffer Edit") ]
| Since <RET> in the minibuffer is defined to exit the minibuffer, you
| can't use it to insert a newline in the minibuffer. To do that, type
| `C-o' or `C-q C-j'. (The newline character is really the ASCII
| character control-J.)
`----
So, both of you are right.
FWIF, I learned `C-q C-j', because it was easier to remember once I knew
what `C-q' does, thusly avoiding the "hard to figure out at the
beginning" bit.
Memnon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 3:57 Searching across line breaks spinner
2011-07-18 8:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-18 11:00 ` spinner
2011-07-18 17:40 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-18 18:58 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-07-19 5:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-19 13:45 ` Memnon Anon [this message]
2011-07-19 16:39 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-07-18 9:34 ` Memnon Anon
2011-07-18 11:06 ` spinner
2011-07-18 12:30 ` ken
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