From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding tab characters Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:53:57 -0600 Message-ID: References: <7937ec17-984e-4698-bbf1-8feaef2841bc@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205564088 31037 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 06:54:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:54:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 07:55:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JaQIW-0002Up-NM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:55:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaQHx-0003BH-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaQHf-00038C-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JaQHd-00033L-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JaQHd-00033A-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaQHc-0000P8-K9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JaQHZ-0003vB-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JaQHJ-0003QH-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:54:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: <7937ec17-984e-4698-bbf1-8feaef2841bc@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52425 Archived-At: Kerry.Thurber@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm missing something obvious I think. I want to create a tab > delimited file using emacs. I can do it fine with a keyboard macro, > but I need to make something permanent that others can use. > > (defun CreateTabDelimitedFile() > "Convert JED logs into something Scott can use" > (interactive) > (beginning-of-buffer) > (replace-string ";" "\009") ;tried many other variants > ) > > In place of "\009" I tried ^I, ^Tab, an actual tab, "[tab]" and > everything else I could imagine. Nothing seems to work. Is there a > way to replace a string with a tab character? Is there a way to > replace a string with another string *plus* a tab character? The "\NNN" syntax is octal, so "\009" is interpreted as "\00" (NUL) followed by "9" (the digit). "\011" is the octal syntax. "\u0009" is the hexadecimal syntax. "\^I" and "\C-i" (and "\C-I") are the control character syntaxes. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA