Re: search and replace codepoints

[Álvar Ibeas]

Hello,

>>> How do I do a search/replace to replace instances of the latter with the
>>> former?

You may copy the ­ character into the kill ring to yank it when prompted
for the first argument of replace-string. You can also evaluate the
following:

(replace-string "\u00ad" "-")

The purpose of the soft hyphen is to mark a possible hyphenation break.