Re: query-replace-regexp

[David desJardins]

Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu> writes:
>> Is it possible to modify query-replace-regexp such that it
>> understands both `^J' and `\n'?
> 
> Of course, you can modify it to do that.  But that will basically
> mean that you need to double your backslashes in other cases like
> \\(blkbl\\).

I don't find that claim very convincing.  Why wouldn't it be possible
for the two-character sequence \ n to have a special meaning to
query-replace-regexp, just as \ ) and \ 1 do?

                                        David desJardins