From: Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:11:20 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uy8qhy9lp.fsf@swbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c23bnr$1u62$1@otis.netspace.net.au
>>>> leo writes:
leo> so i tried (replace-regexp "^$ " "ghdfg" nil nil nil) where the
leo> linefeed was type as C-q C-j. but it doesn't find anything.
The following works.
(replace-regexp "^
" "blank line
" nil nil nil)
---------------------
text is here
and here and
here
further text is here
an the endtext
---------------------
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-03 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-03 1:11 silly regexp-replace question: how to delete empty lines leo
2004-03-03 6:25 ` Barry Margolin
2004-03-03 6:36 ` Sacha Chua
2004-03-03 20:11 ` Peter Lee [this message]
2004-03-03 23:53 ` leo
2004-03-04 1:31 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-03-04 10:10 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-03-03 23:16 ` Joe Fineman
[not found] <200403040341.i243ftF7381474@e1.ny.us.ibm.com>
2004-03-04 4:07 ` Thomas L Roche
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