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Re: [Simple] Regular Expression search


From: Jesper Harder
Subject: Re: [Simple] Regular Expression search
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 21:17:34 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com> writes:

> How do you find blank lines  or carriage returns/new lines using
> regular expressions.  When I type \n it selects all the n characters
> in the page.  I need it to look for special characters.  I can search
> for tabs by hitting the tab key but not by using \t as a shell based
> regular expression allows.

Use `C-j', e.g. `C-M-s C-j' to find newlines.


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