Re: Beginner trouble with regexp matching

[Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com>]

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New lines with replace-string in emacs are a little bit..... random.

M-x replace-string  then type \\begin{equation}
then, instead of typing \n, use the key stroke C-q C-j

That should enter the newline as emacs knows it.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi foks! :-)
>
> Sorry if this question is maybe too trivial, but google wasn't my friend
> today. :-(
>
> I am editing a TeX file, and I want to search for "\begin{equation} " (with
> the
> blank space at the end and without quotes), and to add the newline at the
> end
> instead of the blank space. So the obvious way to do it appeared to be to
> perform a regexp replacing from
>
>  \\begin{equation}
>
> (which finishes with a space) to
>
>  \\begin{equation}\n
>
> However, this doesn't work --- Emacs correctly matches the first string,
> but
> fails to replace it with the second, with an error "Invalid use of `\' in
> replacement text".
>
> This is my very first try to use regular expressions for search&replace,
> and I
> am still learning. What am I doing wrong?
>
> TIA, :-)
> Marko
>
>
>

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