RE: [h-e-w] replacing NEWLINE or LFD

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

In interactive input, you need to quote control characters that don't simply self-insert, such as tab and newline, with ^Q, i.e. enter tab as Control-Q tab or Control-Q Control-I and enter newline as Control-Q Control-J.  (Control-Q return will insert a carriage return, ^M, which is probably not what you want.)

 

\n works in non-interactive input, e.g. "\n" is read as the string containing a single newline character, but the interactive input routines essentially quote the \, thereby inputting \n as the string "\\n", which contains the two characters \ and n rather than a single newline.

 

Francis

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Crosby, Alan
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2004 2:28 pm
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: [h-e-w] replacing NEWLINE or LFD

I've seen it mentioned in various places how to search for an unprintable character such as a TAB or NEWLINE, but I have not been able to find reference on how to replace something with one of these characters.

Specifically, I have some text that has the NEWLINEs stripped out of the text and I would like to put it back. The text is formatted such that a regexp will suit my needs.  The minibuffer accepts TABS from the TAB key, but RETURN ends the replacement sequence.  '\n' does not work in the replacement field. 

Thanks in advance

Alan Crosby

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