Re: Adding tab characters

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kerry.Thurber@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

The "\NNN" syntax is octal, so "\009" is interpreted as "\00" (NUL) 
followed by "9" (the digit).

"\011" is the octal syntax.  "\u0009" is the hexadecimal syntax.

"\^I" and "\C-i" (and "\C-I") are the control character syntaxes.


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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA