Re: Replace all tab characters in buffer with newline

[Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com>]

Hi I found a way to do this:

c-m-% then C-Q <tab> replace with: C-Q C-J

C-j is the key thing that works.

Reason is that C-J means a newline and if you just press enter that is interpretted by emacs as the end of the command.  (Or anyway is interpretted differently).




On Wednesday, 15 January 2014 16:41:08 UTC, Angus Comber  wrote:
> I have eg:
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> text1<tab>text2<tab>text3
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> text4<tab>text5<tab>text6
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> I want to transform into:
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> text1
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> text2
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> text3
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> text4
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> text5
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> text6
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> Using c-m-% I tried this:
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> c-m=% Used C-Q for quorted then entered tab key on keyboard
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> For replacement I used C-Q (quoted) then entered <enter> key
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> But then I end up with:
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> text1^Mtext2^Mtext3
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> text4^Mtext5^Mtext6
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> How should I have done it?
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> Platform is Windows by the way.