From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:12:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gaa9cs$k42$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ga9tln$mn2$1@reader1.panix.com>
David Combs wrote:
> 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?
It's shorter and perhaps easier to remember than C-q C-j.
> 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]
If you follow the link to isearch, you'll see its definition, which has
this comment:
;; Append the char to the search string, update the message and
re-search.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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2008-08-14 20:35 ` Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp Xah
2008-08-16 14:00 ` harven
2008-09-11 1:52 ` David Combs
2008-09-11 5:12 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-08-14 19:31 Corey Foote
2008-08-14 22:54 ` Peter Dyballa
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