From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Replace with CR Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 01:29:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87fv50dd4d.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436229033 22345 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2015 00:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Barry Margolin Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 07 02:30:22 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 1ZCGmD-0008Vf-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 02:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCGmC-0006uJ-BY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCGl7-0005dk-FK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCGl4-0008R1-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:29:13 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.35]:42268) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCGl4-0008Q3-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF5709998D for ; Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 20114 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2015 00:29:07 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.115.83]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 7 Jul 2015 00:29:07 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Barry Margolin on Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:37:02 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.35 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:105497 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > In article , > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Still I wonder why the "Enter"/"Invio"/"Immis"/"Return"/"CR"/"<---+"/:-) >> key stopped working, but I can easily live with that. > > I can't imagine why it ever worked. I've been using Emacs for decades, > and it has always been necessary to use C-q C-j to put a literal newline > in the replacement string. C-q RET would always put a CR there. It could have been because the files being edited had Mac line-endings. In that case once the file was saved and recalled the line-endings would change as expected. Anyway, the OP has solved his problem, so it doesn't matter. BR, Robert Thorpe