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From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Replace all tab characters in buffer with newline
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:47:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEySM9F9Ttwx3TK4rUGYyrn4Wmpr8ayrj2TuD_M77FaQDOVA3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6b7e9ed-f91d-4ec7-9c54-1ca23d274837@googlegroups.com>

On 15 January 2014 17:41, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have eg:
>
> text1<tab>text2<tab>text3
> text4<tab>text5<tab>text6
>
> I want to transform into:
>
> text1
> text2
> text3
> text4
> text5
> text6
>
>
> Using c-m-% I tried this:
>
> c-m=% Used C-Q for quorted then entered tab key on keyboard
>
> For replacement I used C-Q (quoted) then entered <enter> key

Try C-Q C-J instead of C-Q <enter>

>
> But then I end up with:
>
> text1^Mtext2^Mtext3
> text4^Mtext5^Mtext6
>
> How should I have done it?
>
> Platform is Windows by the way.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-15 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-15 16:41 Replace all tab characters in buffer with newline Angus Comber
2014-01-15 16:47 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
2014-01-15 16:51 ` Angus Comber
2014-01-16  6:30   ` Kevin Rodgers

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