From: gregb@laserlab.com (Gregory (Greg) Benjamin)
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search in filled text does not work correctly
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:59:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k43a1hik.fsf@dbn66.laserlab.com> (raw)
I happened to want to convert a list like this:
"apple" "banana" "cherry"
to this format:
apple
banana
cherry
the other day. I started our with 'replace-regexp' and learned about
C-q C-j in a matter of minutes after first trying \n, \\n, C-j,
etc. before googling.
Perhaps it would be better to educate rather than change emacs'
behavior. The built-in tutorial could have a few words added about
using C-q C-j with respect to searching and replacing, or the single
tutorial now provided could be broken into several, with one dedicated
to searching, replacing, highlighting, displaying only the lines
containing a pattern, etc.
next prev reply other threads:[~2012-02-26 1:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 12:59 Search in filled text does not work correctly linuxfever
2012-02-25 14:10 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-02-25 14:54 ` linuxfever
2012-02-25 15:03 ` linuxfever
2012-02-25 23:17 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-25 23:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-26 0:30 ` linuxfever
2012-02-26 1:05 ` linuxfever
2012-02-26 1:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-26 1:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-26 1:59 ` Gregory (Greg) Benjamin [this message]
2012-02-26 19:41 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-26 19:58 ` bitterspetey
2012-02-27 13:26 ` Ludwig, Mark
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