gnu regex and newline

gnu regex and newline

[Peter Lee]

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.

Thanks.

Re: gnu regex and newline

[Barry Margolin]

In article <uk7javb3k.fsf@swbell.net>, Peter Lee  <pete_lee@swbell.net> wrote:
>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.

No, just put a literal newline in the string, by typing C-q C-j.

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Re: gnu regex and newline

[Tim Haynes]

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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Re: gnu regex and newline

[Peter Lee]

Thanks Barry and Tim... just what I was looking for.