Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp

[dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)]

In article <804f53f5-8387-4b20-a4d5-2a2b4708d529@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
harven  <harven@free.fr> wrote:
>
>> It works for me and should work in any emacs 22. For interactive use,
>> i think C-q C-j is actually the only way to insert newlines.
>
>C-o   or   C-012 RET   also work for a query-replace.
>C-o does not work by default for an incremental search.
>The following code adds this shortcut to the incremental commands.
>
>(define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-o"
>           (lambda () (interactive)
>             (isearch-process-search-char ?\n)))

Looks nifty -- but what does it do?

1: what's the purpose of defining C-o?

2: what does that function/lambda-expr actually *do*
   when it gets called>
(like, how does it get a newline inserted?)

Unfortunately:

| isearch-process-search-char is a compiled Lisp function in `isearch'.
| (isearch-process-search-char CHAR)
| 
| Not documented.
| 
| [back]
 


Thanks,

David