Re: Replace with CR

[Robert Thorpe]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> In article <mndiuo$p56$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
>  Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer@netfence.it> wrote:
>
>> Still I wonder why the "Enter"/"Invio"/"Immis"/"Return"/"CR"/"<---+"/:-) 
>> key stopped working, but I can easily live with that.
>
> I can't imagine why it ever worked. I've been using Emacs for decades, 
> and it has always been necessary to use C-q C-j to put a literal newline 
> in the replacement string. C-q RET would always put a CR there.

It could have been because the files being edited had Mac line-endings.
In that case once the file was saved and recalled the line-endings would
change as expected.

Anyway, the OP has solved his problem, so it doesn't matter.

BR,
Robert Thorpe