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How to display new line character (^J) in emacs replace query

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Mar 15, 20261315 views
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Say I want to replace all the new lines in my emacs buffer with the character (wait for the -1, read the rest! :) ). I know I can type . It works fine. My problem is that the new line character, i.e. is not displayed in the replace query, I just get a new line in the query string. Instead if I try …

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Fix for: How to display new line character (^J) in emacs replace query

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I don't think Emacs's behavior can be changed in the way you want. Have you thought about using regexp-replace instead? That way you could see your new lines as .

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