Some of the lines in the buffer have only the single character '#' in them. I want to remove all such lines. I tried doing the following:
M-x replace-regexp ^#$<RET><RET> This replaces the lines with # in them by blank lines. As this is not I want, I undid that, and instead tried M-x replace-regexp ^#$C-qC-j<RET><RET> This just says "Replaced 0 occurrences" and does nothing. Why is this so? (I also tried C-m instead of C-j, it doesn't work either. I'm using Linux) I was able to achieve what I wanted by first replacing the # lines by blank lines (the former of the two above), and then removing all blank lines with M-x replace-regexp C-qC-jC-qC-j<RET>C-qC-j<RET> but in general, I may not want to remove all blank lines in the buffer. So my question is: a)Why doesn't M-x replace-regexp ^#$C-qC-j<RET><RET> work? b)What is the regexp I must use to do what I intended? Thanks, _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
