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Re: [Simple] Regular Expression search


From: Kevin Dziulko
Subject: Re: [Simple] Regular Expression search
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:12:34 -0400 (EDT)

For blank lines: ^ *$
For new line chars: C-q C-j
For tab chars: C-q C-i
For carriage returns: C-q C-m


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Robert Pollard wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> How do you find blank lines  or carriage returns/new lines using 
> regular expressions.  When I type \n it selects all the n characters in 
> the page.  I need it to look for special characters.  I can search for 
> tabs by hitting the tab key but not by using \t as a shell based 
> regular expression allows.
> 
> I looked in the man pages, GNU Emacs Pocket Reference and Learning GNU 
> Emacs and probably missed it somewhere.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert Pollard
> 
> 
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