From: Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>
Subject: Re: gnu regex and newline
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:03:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861y5i8riy.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uk7javb3k.fsf@swbell.net
Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:
> Is there a way to search for and replace newlines with emacs using regex?
> Been looking through the documentation and I thought there would be some
> escape char like \n or something.
Use C-j - optionally quoted, so:
M-x replace-regexp stuff C-q C-j stuff RET replacementstuff RET
HTH,
~Tim
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-18 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-18 21:09 gnu regex and newline Peter Lee
2002-11-18 21:47 ` Barry Margolin
2002-11-18 22:03 ` Tim Haynes [this message]
2002-11-19 15:59 ` Peter Lee
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