Re: putting double quotes efficiently

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 03.06.2013 07:43, schrieb C K Kashyap:
> Hi,
> I am looking for a way to transform
>
> print line1
> print line two
> print line3
>
> into
>
> print "line1";
> print "line two";
> print "line3";
>
> most efficiently. For the first quote of each line I place the cursor
> before line1 and I set the mark and then move all the way down to just
> before line3 and then do a C-x-r-t " <RET>
> Then I do a regexp replace to change $ to ";
>
> I'd like to do better. While at it, can I please also know how I can use
> the line range in the mark set mode in user defined function?
>
> Regards,
> Kashyap
>

M-x query-replace-regexp

^\([^ ]+\) \(.+\)
RET
\1 "\2;
RET