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