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From: andy@ocsmd.OCS.COM (Andy Liwen)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs replace-string query
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Date: 25 Oct 88 12:56:38 GMT
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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.
>
>Does anyone know of a way around this?

Miraculously, microEMACS uses the tab character as an escape character. 
In input.c the function getstring() does this wonderous deed.  We have
patched the routine to also check for a backslash as escape.  You can
get microE to do the search and replace you want by prefixing these
control symbols with the escape, <tab> [ed. ug!], symbol. 

//Andy Liwen


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