From: Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: "C-a" the first character in each line?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:20:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5ttv69d.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> (raw)
Hello group,
in the scratch buffer I did
-----------------
(while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
(replace-match "\% \1"))
laa
moo
nii
-----------------
I expected
%
% laa
% moo
% nii
but isnstead I get
% ^A
% ^Aaa
% ^Aoo
% ^Aii
where ^A stands for the character "C-a".
What am I missing?
TIA,
Nikos
next reply other threads:[~2007-06-24 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 13:20 Nikos Apostolakis [this message]
2007-06-24 14:14 ` "C-a" the first character in each line? Drew Adams
2007-06-25 9:36 ` Nikos Apostolakis
[not found] <mailman.2564.1182691580.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-24 13:59 ` weber
2007-06-25 1:32 ` Barry Margolin
2007-06-24 14:17 ` Joost Kremers
2007-06-25 9:29 ` Nikos Apostolakis
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