Re: global-replace to include linked files?

[Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com>]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 22:47:13 +0200
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a master document with 14 files linked into it
> > like this --8<---------------cut
> > here---------------start------------->8---
> > \include{020-ob2014} --8<---------------cut
> > here---------------end--------------->8--- is it
> > possible to do a "global-replace" of ╭────
> > │\begin{verbatim} ╰──── to ╭────
> > │\begin{lstlisting}[frame=single] ╰──── please?
>   
> Another psychedelic post from Sharon...

So, Emanuel, is that what Sharon's post looked like to you?
(Excepting the "> > " sequences, of course.)  I suspect what is
happening is that your Gnus is set to word wrap at about 52
columns.  Since Sharon's "cut here" lines are 65 characters long,
and have only one space to boot, the wrapping gets very confused,
and leaves you with an ugly mess.  Assuming (HAH!) that the wrap
size is the problem, rather than something else, simply set the
wrap column to 66 or better.  I have Claws-Mail set to wrap at 72
columns, which seems to work well.  Certainly Sharon's posts have
always looked fine here.  (To compose mail, Claws calls Emacs,
which I have set to wrap at 66 columns, just to be safe.)

Of course, if you're seeing something else, like bizarre strings
of octal characters, then I've no idea what's going on, and I wish
you luck in finding the problem.

--Dale

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