Re: Beginner trouble with regexp matching

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Saturday 29 October 2011 15:25:36 Jai Dayal wrote:
> New lines with replace-string in emacs are a little bit..... random.
> 
> M-x replace-string  then type \\begin{equation}
> then, instead of typing \n, use the key stroke C-q C-j
> 
> That should enter the newline as emacs knows it.

Great, it works! Thanks! :-) I didn't even need to use regexp for matching, 
ordinary string replace did the job... ;-)

Btw, is there some table which tells what should I type in Emacs to put in 
such nontrivial characters (newline, carriage return, backspace, tab, etc...)?

Best, :-)
Marko