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Re: replace-string limitation?


From: Pedro Alves
Subject: Re: replace-string limitation?
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:04:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.7i

        Here's something u can do: select a newline and copy it to the
buffer. When replacing a string, when it prompts for the new string, simply
type 'yank'.
        
        Just a simple workarround!


On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:20:04PM -0500, pohl wrote:
> 
> I'm familiar with the replace-string trick used to clean DOS
> carriage returns, but I'm curious about doing something slightly
> different: replacing some string with a unix newline.
> 
> For example, imagine that I'd like to replace all instances
> of <BR> with an actual newline character.  How would I do this?
> 
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