Re: Replace with CR

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 04:40:50PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I'm using emacs on several FreeBSD boxes (text or X version).
>> For several years I've been able to replace any character with a
>> newline, by doing (e.g. with ';'):
>> M-x replace-string(enter);(enter)^Q(enter)(enter)
>
> Try M-x replace-string<ENTER>;<ENTER>^Q^J<ENTER>
>
> (i.e. replace your but-last <ENTER> with CTRL-J)

Again, there's no such thing as ENTER.  The key is RETURN.
You would type:

    M-x replace-string RET ; RET C-q C-j RET

(kbd "ENTER") --> "ENTER"
(kbd "RET") --> ""

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