From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: jorge.alfaro-murillo@yale.edu, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:22:13 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f566487a-2fed-48c2-88c8-a888937dbe9d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a13d2119-556b-4ecf-a925-2468a68c1f62@default>
> > It is common to use `C-j' when you interactively enter a regexp
> > that contains a newline char (Control J).
>
> I take that part back; sorry.
No, I don't. (Sorry for the noise. For a second I thought
maybe Emacs had wised up wrt `C-j'.)
The problem is that `C-j' and `C-m' do not self-insert in
the minibuffer keymaps. So when a command such as
`query-replace' reads a pattern (string of chars) it does
not include any `C-j' or `C-m' (aka `RET') chars that you
hit in the search string.
Instead, it interprets them as commands to enter the other
(self-inserting) chars you have typed so far as the search
string. So to enter these control chars you need to "quote"
them, using `C-q'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-29 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-28 13:48 What's the meaning of "^A" in emacs? Navy Cheng
2015-07-28 15:46 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-28 21:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-29 14:55 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-07-29 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-29 15:16 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-29 15:22 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-07-29 15:23 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-07-29 22:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-29 15:35 ` Marcin Borkowski
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