From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:16:47 +0100 Message-ID: <87v9ecdty8.fsf@web.de> References: <20201110111024.GA15992@tuxteam.de> <87zh3pctr1.fsf@web.de> <87o8k5csqj.fsf@web.de> <20201110224507.GA10842@tuxteam.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26355"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/U8CDFDf0BaBWpowE/DBAm6moc0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 12:18:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kco8b-0006iE-Hg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:18:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36124 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kco8a-00007a-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kco7Y-00007K-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:52314 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kco7X-0005Ex-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:17:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kco7P-0005Hd-N0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:16:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/11 05:55:22 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125223 Archived-At: 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 > Cheers Ebenso! Regards, Michael.