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From: | jeremiah . dodds |
Subject: | Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work |
Date: | Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:47:09 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes: > Am 18.2.2012 um 20:33 schrieb jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com: > >> M-x replace-regexp foo[ ^TAB^j]*bar[ ^TAB^j]*baz[ ^TAB^j] RET fbb RET > > Exactly! A TAB has to be entered as C-q TAB and a line feed as C-q C-j. The > textual descriptions of control characters are a bit too complicated. These > are > not the same in different versions of GNU Emacs while the hard ones are since > eons. I can't *quite* tell if you're being sarcastic. The thing I wrote is unnecessary, I'm sure -- I don't use emacs' regular expression support for much of anything past fairly simple replacements these days, preferring elisp functions and macros for editing tasks that I could do with a huge regex.
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