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From: Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Operate on each line in region
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:45:35 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <787a28ce-2ab1-4b11-92fd-ca4506447baa@googlegroups.com> (raw)

I am writing a function that will indent each line in a region to justify equals signs:

 foo = 1
 longerfoo = bar

Would become 

       foo = 1
 longerfoo = bar

I believe I understand how to iterate through the lines in a region using either of two methods:

condition on the buffer positions for the start and end of the region:

(defun my-justify (start end)
(interactive 'r')
(while (< (point) end))
...body...
(forward-line 1)))

Narrow the buffer to region and use similar conditioning with (eobp).

I'm wondering if there is a more straightforward way to accomplish this.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Jake


             reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 17:45 Jacob Gerlach [this message]
2014-04-23 18:03 ` Operate on each line in region Doug Lewan
2014-04-23 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-23 18:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found] ` <mailman.20129.1398276348.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-23 19:06   ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-23 19:18     ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 23:23       ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 23:44         ` Barry Margolin
2014-04-26  3:02           ` Jacob Gerlach

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