From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: "C-a" the first character in each line? Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:14:01 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87k5ttv69d.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182694543 14648 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2007 14:15:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:15:43 +0000 (UTC) To: "Nikos Apostolakis" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 16:15:40 2007 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 4.50) id 1I2SsN-0003dB-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:15:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2SsM-0005FK-DI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:15:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2Ss7-0005Ej-2V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2Ss4-0005Dt-JM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2Ss4-0005Dp-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2Ss4-0000Bk-5X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5OEFFGD020975; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5OE58jK024534; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:15:14 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw2-141-144-73-10.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2983291061182694453; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:14:13 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <87k5ttv69d.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:45244 Archived-At: > (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? ^A is octal 1. You need \\1, not \1.