Re: how to collapse a horizontal into vertail

[Zimmen Gnauh]

Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes:

> Zimmen Gnauh <yah00204052@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> >    shell command tr can be used to collapse a sentence "this is a test"
> > into
> 
> > this 
> > is
> > a 
> > test
> > . How can this be done in emacs?
> 
> (replace-regexp " " "^J")
> 
> or M-x replace-regexp, similarly. Use C-q to quote the C-j.
> 
> Works t'other way round, too :)
> 
    this would replace all " " with "^J". However, the text I'd like
to  replace is only part of the buffer. I expect to mark the region
first and then do something to collapse it. 

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