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From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>
To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com>
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Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: replacing ^M with emacs
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:20:49PM -0700, Noah wrote:
> this is the best answer.  Hits it right on the head of what I want.  
> What if I want the character to replace the ^M with a new line what do I 
> enter in the replace field?

The nice thing about that method is that it'll work for odd characters
when you don't know what they are.

For simple things like ^M you can always use ^Q^M to produce an actual
^M when doing the query-replace stuff.

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