[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: ^L character?
From: |
Dan Sommers |
Subject: |
Re: ^L character? |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:40:53 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.90 (darwin) |
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:02:37 -0600,
Peter <facetious_nickname@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to work with a file that I pasted-as-text from Acroread, in
> Windows XP. I'd like to replace all of the ^L characters that show up
> in this document with either nothing, or a \newline (for LaTeX). How
> do I go about replacing a character like that using Emacs?
You can enter control characters into emacs by prefacing them by C-q; so
to replace ^L's with \newline:
M-% C-q C-l RET \newline RET
Assuming you haven't hacked your key mappings too much, you can get help
on C-q with:
C-h C-k C-q
HTH,
Dan
--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>
"I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist