From: Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: how to collapse a horizontal into vertail
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:37:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r8bj4ay7.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86iswvcwqw.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk
Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes:
> Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > shell command tr can be used to collapse a sentence "this is a test"
> > into
>
> > this
> > is
> > a
> > test
> > . How can this be done in emacs?
>
> (replace-regexp " " "^J")
>
> or M-x replace-regexp, similarly. Use C-q to quote the C-j.
>
> Works t'other way round, too :)
>
this would replace all " " with "^J". However, the text I'd like
to replace is only part of the buffer. I expect to mark the region
first and then do something to collapse it.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-11 17:11 how to collapse a horizontal into vertail Zimmen Gnauh
2003-01-11 19:27 ` Tim Haynes
2003-01-11 21:37 ` Zimmen Gnauh [this message]
2003-01-12 0:03 ` Tim Haynes
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