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Re: Replace all tab characters in buffer with newline


From: Guido Van Hoecke
Subject: Re: Replace all tab characters in buffer with newline
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:47:31 +0100

On 15 January 2014 17:41, Angus Comber <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have eg:
>
> text1<tab>text2<tab>text3
> text4<tab>text5<tab>text6
>
> I want to transform into:
>
> text1
> text2
> text3
> text4
> text5
> text6
>
>
> Using c-m-% I tried this:
>
> c-m=% Used C-Q for quorted then entered tab key on keyboard
>
> For replacement I used C-Q (quoted) then entered <enter> key

Try C-Q C-J instead of C-Q <enter>

>
> But then I end up with:
>
> text1^Mtext2^Mtext3
> text4^Mtext5^Mtext6
>
> How should I have done it?
>
> Platform is Windows by the way.



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