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Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp
From: |
David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:52:56 +0000 (UTC) |
In article <804f53f5-8387-4b20-a4d5-2a2b4708d529@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
harven <harven@free.fr> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>C-o or C-012 RET also work for a query-replace.
>C-o does not work by default for an incremental search.
>The following code adds this shortcut to the incremental commands.
>
>(define-key isearch-mode-map "\C-o"
> (lambda () (interactive)
> (isearch-process-search-char ?\n)))
Looks nifty -- but what does it do?
1: what's the purpose of defining C-o?
2: what does that function/lambda-expr actually *do*
when it gets called>
(like, how does it get a newline inserted?)
Unfortunately:
| isearch-process-search-char is a compiled Lisp function in `isearch'.
| (isearch-process-search-char CHAR)
|
| Not documented.
|
| [back]
Thanks,
David
- Re: Using a newline character in the newstring in M-x replace-regexp,
David Combs <=