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Re: [h-e-w] The list is back up!


From: Wojciech Komornicki
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] The list is back up!
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:41:20 -0500

>>>>> "John" == John C Polking <address@hidden> writes:

  John:> I am happy to see this list in operation again.
  John:> At the risk of boring everyone, I raise an old problem.  I want to do a
  John:> global search and replace where the replacement text includes a CR/LF 
(I
  John:> am using a PC).  I know how to do the search and replace.  It is the
  John:> CR/LF that puzzles me.

  John:> What angers me is that I used to know how to do this, but I have
  John:> forgotten.

Let's say you want to replace the CR/LF with "xxx"
If you are just doing it in a buffer you can do
      (replace-string "\n" "xxx" nil nil nil)
since in the PC world a new line character is the two characters CR/LF.
If you want to do this for a bunch of files you can adapt this to your
favorite multi-file search-and-replace command

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Wojciech Komornicki                                      Dept of Mathematics
wnk at hamline.edu                                        Hamline University
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/                               St Paul, MN 55104
                                                                         USA




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