Re: replace-string on escaped character

[Daniel Barlow <dan@telent.net>]

Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net> writes:

> I'm embarrassed to ask this.  I'm guessing there is a simple solution
> that I am simply missing.  For whatever reason, a text file that I need
> to work on renders the apostrophe as \222 in emacs.  The file isn't

If you cursor over that \222, you find it's actiually a single character.
You can mark and cut it with the usual C-Space, M-w, then press C-y
when replace-string asks for the search string.

If that doesn't work, something odder is happending.


-dan

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