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From: Corey Foote <coreyfoote@hotmail.com>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Applying macro to lines which match regexp
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:21:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BLU105-W1224F5614CF0A08487BABBDA300@phx.gbl> (raw)

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I was reading through the Emacs manual today, and came across C-x C-k r (apply-macro-to-region-lines) which applies the last keyboard macro to each line that begins in the region. How would I apply the last keyboard macro to each line that begins in the region which match a certain regular expression. For example, say I was editing a Perl script and wanted to apply the last macro to all line which consist solely of a comment. For example:

1    # Print some text
2    print "foo";
3    print "foobar";
4
5    # And then a while later
6    print "foobarbaz";

I would want to apply the macro to lines 1 and 6 which match the regular expression ^\s-*#. Thanks a bunch!

Corey Foote
Toby Software
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-15 19:21 Corey Foote [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1136.1224098481.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-15 19:54 ` Applying macro to lines which match regexp Xah
2008-10-15 21:16   ` Xah
2008-10-15 23:09     ` Parker, Matthew
2008-10-15 23:36 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-16  0:38 ` Tim X

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