Re: how to collapse a horizontal into vertail

[Tim Haynes]

Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:

>    shell command tr can be used to collapse a sentence "this is a test"
> into

> this 
> is
> a 
> test
> . How can this be done in emacs?

(replace-regexp " " "^J")

or M-x replace-regexp, similarly. Use C-q to quote the C-j.

Works t'other way round, too :)

~Tim
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