Re: Adding tab characters

[Kerry . Thurber]

On Mar 13, 10:26 am, Brendan Halpin <brendan.hal...@ul.ie> wrote:
> Kerry.Thur...@gmail.com writes:
> > Hello everyone,
>
> > I'm missing something obvious I think.  I want to create a tab
> > delimited file using emacs.  I can do it fine with a keyboard macro,
> > but I need to make something permanent that others can use.
>
> > (defun CreateTabDelimitedFile()
> >   "Convert JED logs into something Scott can use"
> >   (interactive)
> >   (beginning-of-buffer)
> >   (replace-string ";" "\009")  ;tried many other variants
> > )
>
> > In place of "\009" I tried ^I, ^Tab, an actual tab, "[tab]" and
> > everything else I could imagine.  Nothing seems to work.  Is there a
> > way to replace a string with a tab character?  Is there a way to
> > replace a string with another string *plus* a tab character?
>
> An actual tab should work, but you need to enter it as C-Q TAB as Emacs
> may enter spaces instead (or indent). However try:
>
>  (replace-string ";" "\t")
>
> \t stands for a literal tab.
>
> Brendan
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Thanks!