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Re: ^L character?
From: |
B. T. Raven |
Subject: |
Re: ^L character? |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:44:40 -0600 |
"Peter" <facetious_nickname@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to work with a file that I pasted-as-text from Acroread, in
> Windows XP. I'd like to replace all of the ^L characters that show up
> in this document with either nothing, or a \newline (for LaTeX). How
> do I go about replacing a character like that using Emacs?
>
> Thank you.
To replace ^L with nothing (delete):
M-% C-q C-l RET RET
spacebar....
then after seeing it work on a few, press ! to replace all.
To replace ^L with a newline:
M-% C-q C-l RET C-q C-j RET
for an actual newline char 10
or
.... \newline if that's what LaTeX wants.
M stands for Meta (mapped to Alt on common keyboards). M-% (Alt-Shift-%)
and C-q C-L C-j are keychords: While holding down the first, press the
second.