From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding `#' at each new line with text until the end of the file Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:26:40 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87bpcel6zj.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87k4r24iq3.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291832353 14330 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 18:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:19:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:19:08 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQObZ-0006CB-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:19:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQObY-00052U-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:19:05 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net okeFqZKI56HWNPwlOEN6uww4pebJoNxz5F+7lSeGNCOEWLowvJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:NWVjYTNjMDNjM2VkMGZlZjZjMzNiMzc0ZjkwNDkzY2M5MDU0NTM5MA== sha1:OAv50RrzrcmfJEuao6LZRz3lM/k= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178223 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75776 Archived-At: Merciadri Luca writes: > The problem is that, as I do not have *a lot* of sayings, I would like > Gnus to modify the sayings' file so it looks like at its beginning, > that is, with a `#' beginning each saying. > > I tried > > == > (defun fildi () > (find-file "/~Sayings") > (goto-char (point-min)) > ; go to the first saying, and do the following until the end of the > ; file is reached, for each line with some text on it: > (insert "#") > (save-buffer)) > == > > But I don't know how to translate my two lines of comments into real > ELisp code. Any idea about how I could achieve this? A line that has some text on it is a line that has at least one character right? So: (while (< (point) (point-max)) (when (looking-at ".") (insert "#")) (forward-line)) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/