From: Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Operate on each line in region
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:18:28 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a35bad7-fd4a-4755-95c2-528b96e032b1@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <barmar-BFB779.15065023042014@news.eternal-september.org>
> One could imagine that since this is a fairly common need, there might
>
> be a macro like with-region or with-region-lines that already does it.
This is exactly what I was imagining, I just didn't know it.
In any case, align-regexp seems to be the most straightforward of all, since it seems to be able to do exactly what I need. I haven't worked out the syntax yet to insert the white space at the beginning of the line instead of after the text ('foo' or 'longerfoo'), but I'm working on that part!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 17:45 Operate on each line in region Jacob Gerlach
2014-04-23 18:03 ` 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 [this message]
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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