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: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:12:59 -0600 Message-ID: References: <804f53f5-8387-4b20-a4d5-2a2b4708d529@k30g2000hse.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 1221110064 20825 80.91.229.12 (11 Sep 2008 05:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:14:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 11 07:15:20 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 1KdeWR-0001cZ-AZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36729 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeVQ-0004yX-N8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:14:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeUU-0004pg-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeUT-0004p8-5m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:13:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46461 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeUS-0004ow-Dp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57530 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdeUS-000217-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:13:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KdeUQ-0000Ji-7x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:10 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:10 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:13:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: 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:57412 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > In article <804f53f5-8387-4b20-a4d5-2a2b4708d529@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, > harven wrote: >>> It works for me and should work in any emacs 22. For interactive use, >>> i think C-q C-j is actually the only way to insert newlines. >> C-o or C-012 RET also work for a query-replace. >> C-o does not work by default for an incremental search. >> The following code adds this shortcut to the incremental commands. >> >> (define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-o" >> (lambda () (interactive) >> (isearch-process-search-char ?\n))) > > Looks nifty -- but what does it do? > > 1: what's the purpose of defining C-o? It's shorter and perhaps easier to remember than C-q C-j. > 2: what does that function/lambda-expr actually *do* > when it gets called> > (like, how does it get a newline inserted?) > > Unfortunately: > > | isearch-process-search-char is a compiled Lisp function in `isearch'. > | (isearch-process-search-char CHAR) > | > | Not documented. > | > | [back] If you follow the link to isearch, you'll see its definition, which has this comment: ;; Append the char to the search string, update the message and re-search. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA