From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com
Cc: Steve Petersen <steve@stevepetersen.net>,
GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:44:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01FAFF31-6E41-42AE-BA6A-BAD4283C336B@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehts2ayk.fsf@gmail.com>
Am 18.2.2012 um 20:33 schrieb jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com:
> M-x replace-regexp foo[ ^TAB^j]*bar[ ^TAB^j]*baz[ ^TAB^j] RET fbb RET
Exactly! A TAB has to be entered as C-q TAB and a line feed as C-q C-j. The textual descriptions of control characters are a bit too complicated. These are not the same in different versions of GNU Emacs while the hard ones are since eons.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-18 17:52 replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work Steve Petersen
2012-02-18 19:17 ` Thorsten
2012-02-18 19:33 ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 20:44 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2012-02-19 2:47 ` jeremiah.dodds
2012-02-18 23:30 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-19 0:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2012-02-18 21:26 Silvio Levy
2012-02-19 3:04 ` jeremiah.dodds
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