From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:10:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20201110111024.GA15992@tuxteam.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36156"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 12:11:08 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcRYK-0009Hh-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:11:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcRYJ-0006AD-2w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcRXr-0006A3-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:10:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:39635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcRXo-00043E-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:10:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=L/jAMPi3aX4sQacpKibSIinOzc+9FgCqezFi2xIt21E=; b=o61TPBzVrrEZuFDWraVjPlzQmiebubOXkl7wb+XWrNZOlWCvHMxKgx6R/Sa95zSNyIWMAtJQbygUzWj9sRuv0bW1br877vjCN+Z1/kPz3qX1XdWZ2VriEHyAsbL3mwNFTTAEXImA8i9sgu4hu8U0NFRssS5ta7oqYQF9g40vsCxa4arvMaHwFBfknzh2x6K7xk08zgXrj1T004vqxjnpRtsjFLibL4klC0Xd/JHon7+PDUeUuBulSIMhBMzBM4WSgA7Y62TggjIfly/YlK8fwDfAuOil4LxgHLyhYr0glw3bDUFVlsELwBdCMrVJxvGDnbd+sTsln3ui/CeBQLCvjQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1kcRXh-0004zb-2v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:10:29 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=5.199.139.25; envelope-from=tomas@tuxteam.de; helo=mail.tuxteam.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/10 06:10:34 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.1-3.10 [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125174 Archived-At: --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:43:45AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: >=20 > I have a paragraph and want to add a string to the beginning of each line= after selecting > the paragraph region. >=20 > GNU is an operating system that is free software=E2=80=94that is, it resp= ects users' freedom. The > GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically rele= ased by the GNU=20 > Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The developm= ent of GNU made > it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your fr= eedom. >=20 > Example, passing ';; + ' as argument to a function to get >=20 > ;; + GNU is an operating system that is free software=E2=80=94that is, it= respects users' freedom. The > ;; + GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically= released by the GNU=20 > ;; + Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The dev= elopment of GNU made > ;; + it possible to use a computer without software that would trample yo= ur freedom. - Select the region - M-x query-replace-regexp "^" =E2=86=92 ";; + " - Profit! Wrapping that up in a function is left as an exercise to the reader :-) Cheers -- t --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAl+qdSAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kamBgCdFtJX8Kxa3jACf06NqNp3NCMP CPYAnAjvX5F8AEmXiPe/kWKIdzWStaXe =XA+U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--