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Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bug: Unable to request replace-string of " \t"
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:34:41 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Bob Rogers <address@hidden> writes:

>    2.  "M-x replace-string RET SPC TAB RET x RET".  It won't matter that
> it doesn't replace anything.  Notice that the SPC and TAB are inserted
> into the minibuffer normally,

TAB runs the command indent-for-tab-command
   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `indent.el'.
It is bound to TAB.
(indent-for-tab-command &optional ARG)

> though the prompt after typing RET says
> "Replace regexp ^I with: ", indicating that the SPC was deleted.

Try C-q TAB instead.

Andreas.

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