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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:34:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jepsg60wym.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17593.40511.445962.716539@rgrjr.dyndns.org> (Bob Rogers's message of "Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:02:39 -0400")

Bob Rogers <rogers-emacs@rgrjr.dyndns.org> writes:

>    2.  "M-x replace-string RET SPC TAB RET x RET".  It won't matter that
> it doesn't replace anything.  Notice that the SPC and TAB are inserted
> into the minibuffer normally,

TAB runs the command indent-for-tab-command
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `indent.el'.
It is bound to TAB.
(indent-for-tab-command &optional ARG)

> though the prompt after typing RET says
> "Replace regexp ^I with: ", indicating that the SPC was deleted.

Try C-q TAB instead.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-16  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-16  2:02 Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t" Bob Rogers
2006-07-16  8:34 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2006-07-16  7:23   ` [Fwd: Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"] Andreas Roehler
2006-07-16 16:33     ` Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t" Bob Rogers
2006-07-17  1:02       ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-17  1:44         ` Drew Adams
2006-07-17  3:20           ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-18  0:12             ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-17  1:40   ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-17  1:48     ` Drew Adams
2006-07-17  3:25     ` Stefan Monnier

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