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Re: gnu regex and newline


From: Tim Haynes
Subject: Re: gnu regex and newline
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:03:17 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu)

Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:

> Is there a way to search for and replace newlines with emacs using regex?
> Been looking through the documentation and I thought there would be some
> escape char like \n or something.

Use C-j - optionally quoted, so:
   M-x replace-regexp stuff C-q C-j stuff RET replacementstuff RET

HTH,

~Tim
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