Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp

[Xah]

On Aug 14, 12:31 pm, Corey Foote <coreyfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got one more quick question for you guys. The string
> I'd like to use as the newstring in M-x replace-regexp contains a few newline
> characters. Normally, I insert newlines by typing C-q C-j, but this doesn't
> work when calling this function. How do you specify a newline character when
> making a call to M-x replace-regexp?

It works for me and should work in any emacs 22. For interactive use,
i think C-q C-j is actually the only way to insert newlines.

If you are calling this function in elisp, you can use “\n”. But
literal line feed should also work...

so i'm not sure what might be your problem?

  Xah
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