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Re: Opening mac text files in XEmacs



On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Itamar S.-T. wrote:

> When I open a mac text file in XEmacs (v20.3) all the line-breaks are written as
> ^M. I want to convert them into newlines.  Searching for the ^M is easy, but I
> can't figure out how to replace them with a newline.
> 
> GNU Emacs converts the file into unixtext automatically, so I can use that to
> convert it, but I'd rather use XEmacs.
> 

In "Query replace:" minibuffer type C-q C-m <Enter>
In "Qurey replace with:" type C-q C-j <Enter>

That will do what you want. (C-q is the "quote" sequence, see manuals
form more info).

Regards,
Andre.

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