From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replacing New Lines Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:51:13 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20050406153226.16897.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112810267 4257 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2005 17:57:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 19:57:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJElr-0008DR-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:56:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJEKz-0002q4-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJEJG-0001e1-SJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJEJG-0001d2-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1DJElw-0006d7-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:57:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DJEiC-0007XG-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 19:53:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050406153226.16897.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25436 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25436 exits funnel wrote: > Hello, > > I have a java source file which has through some > interaction with source control become double spaced. > In other words when I look at the file with hexdump, I > see two consecutive LFs everywhere I'd expect to see > only one. I'm running Emacs 21.3.1 on RedHat Linux > and I'm trying to use query-replace to remove the > extraneous LFs but I can't quite get it. Here's what > I'm trying: > > M-[SHIFT]-% C-q [ENTER] C-q [ENTER] [ENTER] C-q > [ENTER] [ENTER] > > Unfortunately, emacs replaces zero occurances so > obviously I'm doing something wrong. If somone could > straighten me out I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Use `C-q C-j' instead of `C-q [ENTER]'. The Enter key is the function key aka the RET character aka C-m. LFD is C-j. -- Kevin Rodgers