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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs replace-string query
Message-ID: <12413@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 25 Oct 88 18:11:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.12413
References: <801@epistemi.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <801@epistemi.ed.ac.uk> rda@epistemi.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale) writes:
| Sometimes, in MicroEmacs (I'm using 3.9e), I find I want to replace
| ^Ms at the end of lines by ^Js (sometimes I grab text from another
| system where this is the convention, and I want to change it in the
| editor).   However, if I say
| 
| 	replace-string ^Q ^M <META> ^Q ^J <META>
| 
| (which is what I'd do in Gnu, for example) both the ^M and the ^J
| appear on the screen as <NL>s, and no replacements are made.

In input.c there is code about line 413 to change return into newline. I
found this to be a problem sometimes, and changed it. The code follows a
comment about the change, and the original looks like:
	if (c == (CTRL | 0x4d))
change the code to read:
	if (c == (CTRL | 0x4d) && !quotef)

This will cause the return to be taken as is in search and replace
strings. I just tried it, and 3.9e was the last version I got working
this way. The behavior you describe is in 3.9n and 3.9p.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me