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: C-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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list