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Re: [Sheflug] inserting line ending using emacs search and replace

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From: Bob Holland <bobholland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:29:35 +0000
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On Friday 12 November 2004 14:51, you wrote:
>  word1, word2, word3, word4

I usually have to look this up when I need it too. You can specify control 
characters such as newline with a (C-q) prefix, so 

M-%,<Return>C-qC-j

Will replace commas with linefeeds which should work for your example. There 
is also the regexp search & replace for more complex stuff.

HTH
Bob




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