Re: Editing Control Characters, Linefeeds, Etc.

[Lee Maschmeyer <Lee_Maschmeyer@wayne.edu>]

I realized as I got up this morning that top-of-file is M-<, not C-M-<. 
This is corrected in the version below:

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:16:19PM -0400, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> John,
> 
> Emacs can do this, though it's taken me six months to find out how and I
> may not be doing it the best way (part of the reason I'm responding).
> 
> To enter a control character, precede it with a C-Q. To replace all
> occurrences of a string after Point, use the replace-string function.
> 
> For example: Recently I had to repair a Web Braille file (Captains 
> Courageous) with faulty end-of-page sequences that my bb.sh script 
> couldn't handle. The key sequence was as follows:
> 
> M-< (top-of-file)
> M-xreplace-s<tab> (resulted in replace-string)
> <Enter>
> ^q^m^q^l
> <enter>
> ^q^m^q^j^q^l
> <enter>
> 
> All done.
> 
> I've been using emacs for the past 6 months solid and am still by no 
> means fond of its interface, but it seems to be able to do lots of 
> stuff if you have a few lifetimes to find out how.
> 
> On a very distantly-related note, how can people not on Debian handle 
> Debian packages? I tried once getting edbrowse but got depressed 
> before figuring out how to deal with .deb files. No fair cheating by 
> telling me I don't need the Debian distribution; I want to know about 
> .deb files whether or not it's necessary in this case. <Grin>
> 
> Thanks and hope this helps,
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:51:28AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: 

> > Hello,
> > 
> > This also pertains tho the websirte I am maintaining, which is for 
> > Wisconsin Braille, Inc. The original website was created using Frontpage. 
> > I've been trying out Tidy on it and may use Edbrowse also. Some of the 
> > material that goes on it is originally from Word files. This material has 
> > a lot of extra linefeeds and a lot of tabs when it is converted to text. 
> > Is there an editor which can do a find and replace on these characters? 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > John