From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:07:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201111140732.GA14577@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-1c155798-4549-4b5e-9cc2-2ccc1b49ed76-1605100964589@3c-app-mailcom-bs13>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 02:22:44PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 12:16 PM
> > From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> > To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
> >
> > <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> >
> > > But watch out: the replacement string (confusingly called `regex' here,
> > > others have already pointed that out) might contain special sequences
> > > (e.g. "\\&") which have a meaning in this context.
> >
> > Indeed, an important objection.
> >
> > I would suggest to avoid using any query-replace at all and rather use
> > something like
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > (save-excursion
> > (while (and (<= (point) end)
> > (not (eobp)))
> > (insert my-string)
> > (forward-line +1))
> > (deactivate-mark))
> > #+end_src
>
> That's what I started doing at the beginning. Should we revert to this
> or continue with replace-regexp. Have now removed the confusingly called
> `regex' and it is currently called nwltok.
If it's always the beginning of line you're inserting at, your first
approach seems to make more sense.
Something like
(beginning-of-line) ; if you aren't already there, see below
(insert "foo")
should do what you're after.
The beginning-of-line isn't necessary if your advance function
puts you already there. Note that (beginning-of-line 2) will
put you at the beginning of the /next/ line.
Cheers
- t
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 10:43 Adding String to Beginning of Lines Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:10 ` tomas
2020-11-10 11:19 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 11:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 12:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 12:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 12:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:40 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:06 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 14:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:12 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 19:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 21:22 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 10:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 16:06 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 16:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-10 23:00 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-11 21:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 17:52 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:25 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:56 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 19:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 20:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:45 ` tomas
2020-11-11 11:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 13:22 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 13:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 14:07 ` tomas [this message]
2020-11-11 14:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 17:20 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 18:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-11 18:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 11:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:47 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-11-12 19:01 ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-14 22:09 ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-14 23:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-14 23:39 ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-15 9:12 ` tomas
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