From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: replacing non-printable character \377
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:45:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mwvyl8ru.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1359052428.97313.YahooMailNeo@web161002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:33:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Owen McGonagle <omcgonagle@yahoo.com>
>
> I am looking for a simple replace-regexp command that will replace all my
> non-printable characters that show up as \377 with the single character 'u'
> I have searched around for a good example - maybe it is my limited understanding
> of regular expressions - I have tried a few, with no luck.
If you need to replace a single character, why do you need to use
regexps?
Doesn't "M-% C-q 377 RET u RET" do the job? (You may need to visit
the file with "M-x find-file-literally RET" for this to work.)
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2013-01-24 18:33 replacing non-printable character \377 Owen McGonagle
2013-01-24 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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