How to replace a character with a newline in Emacs?

2018-06-13 12:35:13

I am trying to replace a character - say ; - with a new line using replace-string and/or replace-regexp in Emacs.

I have tried the following commands:

Mx replace-string RET ; RET n

This will replace ; with 2 characters: n .

Mx replace-regex RET ; RET n

This results in the following error (shown in the minibuffer):

Invalid use of `' in replacement text.

What's wrong with using replace-string for this task? Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks.

Mx replace-string RET ; RET Cq Cj.

Cq for quoted-insert ,

Cj is a newline.

Cheers!

There are four ways I've found to put a newline into the minibuffer.

Cq Cj

Cq 12 (12 is the octal value of newline)

Cx o to the main window, kill a newline with Ck, then Cx o back to the minibuffer, yank it with Cy

Don't forget that you can always cut and paste into the minibuffer.

So you can just copy a newline character (or any string) from your buffer, then yank it when prompted for the replacement text.

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