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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: MicroEmacs replace-string query
Summary: Works over here
Message-ID: <226@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 88 13:54:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: ispi.226
References: <801@epistemi.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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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.

I am using uEmacs 3.9n on a Xenix 386 system.  I tried the above and it worked.
It is possible that the terminal you are using is doing something funny, also
the stty settings may be screwed up.  If that is not the case then try to 
get 3.9n (from Daniel Lawrence's BBS) and try that.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.