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Re: replacing some special characters
From: |
Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: replacing some special characters |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:27 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Pete Siemsen <siemsen@ucar.edu> writes:
> I have a buffer that contains mostly normal characters, but has some weird
> characters. I simply want to replace all occurrences of the weird characters
> with spaces. I'd like to use replace-regexp to do it, but I don't know how
> to specify the weird characters. When I place the cursor on one of the weird
> characters and execute describe-char, I get
>
> character: (160, #o240, #xa0)
[...]
>
> I've tried using \o240 and \xA0, with no luck. How can I get replace-regexp
> to match the special characters?
>
> -- Pete
C-q 240 C-u
Or maybe the hexvalue, it depends on some variable. Alternatively you
could kill/yank the character.
-ap