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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:
M-x replace-string RET ; RET \n
This will replace ; with two characters: \n.
M-x 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 another way to do it?
M-x
replace-stringRET;RET C-q C-j.C-q for
quoted-insert,C-j is a newline.