Re: replacing phrases: matching line feeds in regular expressions, since \s- doesn't work

[jeremiah . dodds]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 18.2.2012 um 20:33 schrieb jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com:
>
>> M-x replace-regexp foo[ ^TAB^j]*bar[ ^TAB^j]*baz[ ^TAB^j] RET fbb RET
>
> Exactly! A TAB has to be entered as C-q TAB and a line feed as C-q C-j. The
> textual descriptions of control characters are a bit too complicated. These 
> are
> not the same in different versions of GNU Emacs while the hard ones are since
> eons.

I can't *quite* tell if you're being sarcastic. The thing I wrote is
unnecessary, I'm sure -- I don't use emacs' regular expression support
for much of anything past fairly simple replacements these days,
preferring elisp functions and macros for editing tasks that I could do
with a huge regex.