如何在emacs中用多行替换搜索？

Question

how to replace a match with multiple lines in emacs.

Example:- replacing "Dog" with barking animal

as shown below

The Dog 

with

The Barking
animal

I tried \\n in the command replace-regexp, for which emacs throws error saying Invalid use of `\\' in replacement text

Answer 1

As documented in this article , the answer is to use Cq Cj to enter your newline if you're using Mx replace-string

So for you:

Mx replace-string RET Dog RET Barking Cq Cj animal RET