From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replace with CR Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:36:18 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <871tgmvcp9.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436110832 10535 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2015 15:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 05 17:40:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBm1u-0001HL-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZBm1t-0003Wu-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jul 2015 11:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net oBnCeZxCzh68gPR5gCST+wgflAJi4UA7gFnd5rXwv4w3F0dIp9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZGNhODMwNDc2NDJjZGQyZjI1YjVmZWRhNTE0OGQ5YTA4YWI0MWQ3Yg== sha1:1Z5JlVcXFxZZCMgxp+PbkSN0X64= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213161 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105448 Archived-At: 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;^Q^J > > (i.e. replace your but-last 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") --> "" -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk